Deanna Chavira

Serve as a resource for students and parents to achieve and maintain standards of excellence in curricular areas so that each student receives the greatest academic and personal benefit from the learning experience. Focus on social and emotional aspect of the student while monitoring attendance, grades, and behavior. Manage and maintain a caseload of at-risk students through weekly meetings with students, communication with parents, teachers and counselors. Coordinate interventions for each student. Provide mentoring through building rapport while working on goal setting. Communicate routinely with teachers and counselors, parents about student progress and interventions. Assist in restorative justice circles, when needed. Participate in individual student plans. Encourage educational support and community involvement in parents.

Provide assistance to each child individually and as a whole according to their needs. Managing educational materials in accordance to daily lesson plans. Reinforce concepts and helping skills that students will need in order to deal with the challenges in everyday life. Conduct small group and individual classroom activities based on differential learning needs. Adapts classroom activities, assignments or materials under the direction of the Special Needs teacher in classroom to reinforce classroom objectives. Assist students with personal care so that they can adapt to school environment.

Evaluate child potential to assess education level. Create, develop and implement daily lesson plans. Integrated education into classroom activities. Created lesson plans for parents involving activities to teach their children at home. Established and maintained positive relations with students and parents, resulting in 100% cooperation from parents. Assessed student’s learning skills to develop specific educational, social and emotional goals for each student. Develop DRDP’S and Individual Plans. Successfully implement specialized activities to improve the student’s fine motor, cognitive, language development and gross motor skills.

Organized daily activities for students to strengthen their educational skills. Created daily lessons. Selected appropriate materials for activities. Successfully maintained classroom discipline resulting in less student disruptions. Ensured policies and procedures were followed throughout the day. Presented student behavior requiring correction to parents and staff.