Amy Maurath
Lebanon
Summary
Dedicated educator with a proven track record at Thorntown Elementary, excelling in IEP management and fostering inclusive classrooms. Leveraged conflict resolution and academic support skills to enhance student learning and engagement. Achieved significant improvements in special needs students' progress through innovative lesson adaptations and strong interpersonal connections.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Life Skills Instructional Assistant
Western Boone Junior/Senior High School
08.2024 - Current
- Supported student learning objectives through personalized and small group assistance.
- Collated classroom materials to help teachers prepare for daily instruction and activities.
- Provided support during classes, group lessons, and classroom activities.
- Delivered curriculum in both one-on-one lessons and group learning environments.
Pre-K Teacher
Thorntown Elementary
08.2023 - 05.2024
- Gave one-on-one attention to children while maintaining overall focus on entire group.
- Monitored students' academic, social, and emotional progress and recorded in individual files.
- Observed children to identify individuals in need of additional support and developed strategies to improve assistance.
- Consulted with parents to build and maintain positive support networks and support continuing education strategies.
Secretary
Thorntown Elementary
03.2020 - 08.2023
- Scheduled appointments and conducted follow-up calls to clients.
- Responded to emails and other correspondence to facilitate communication and enhance business processes.
- Provided clerical support to company employees by copying, faxing, and filing documents.
- Answered multi-line phone system and enthusiastically greeted callers.
- Enrolled students and worked on state reports.
Special Education Teacher
Thorntown Elementary
08.2019 - 03.2020
- Partnered with standard education teachers from across academic departments.
- Taught students across multiple classifications and degrees of special needs.
- Redirected students using Positive Behavior Support (PBS).
- Instructed students with physical and cognitive disabilities.
- Led activities that developed students' physical, emotional, and social growth.
- Assisted struggling students to maintain progress levels by designing individualized lesson plans focused on areas for improvement.
- Cultivated connections and strong student rapport to foster classroom engagement, in addition to recording student progress to inform parents and school administration.
- Delivered effective and differentiated classroom instruction to range of neurodiverse students.
- Created and managed IEPs to define student learning objectives and educational strategies, in addition to applying instructional knowledge and methods to support goals.
- Modified general education curriculum for special-needs students using various instructional techniques and technologies.
- Taught multiple subjects to students with intellectual or emotional disabilities.
- Met with parents and guardians to discuss children's progress and determine priorities and resource needs.
- Maintained accurate and complete student records to prepare reports on children and activities.
- Enforced classroom rules to encourage positive behavior and distributed rewards for good conduct.
Education
Master of Science - Special Education
University of Saint Francis
Fort Wayne, IN06-2021
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology
Saint Leo University
Saint Leo, FL12-2014
Skills
- IEP adherence
- Student inclusion
- Classroom support
- Classroom inclusion
- Teacher support
- IEP management
- Lesson adaptation
- Conflict resolution
- Academic support
- Special education support
Timeline
Life Skills Instructional Assistant
Western Boone Junior/Senior High School
08.2024 - Current
Pre-K Teacher
Thorntown Elementary
08.2023 - 05.2024
Secretary
Thorntown Elementary
03.2020 - 08.2023
Special Education Teacher
Thorntown Elementary
08.2019 - 03.2020
Master of Science - Special Education
University of Saint Francis
Bachelor of Arts - Sociology
Saint Leo University
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