Elizabeth Hegel
East Elmhurst,USA
Summary
Passionate educator with diverse experience across various learning environments, including specialized and mainstream settings. Skilled in creating engaging curriculums tailored to individual student needs, fostering inclusive classroom atmospheres that inspire curiosity and learning. Demonstrated ability to adapt teaching methodologies to enhance student understanding and achievement. Successfully implemented innovative teaching strategies that improved learner engagement and academic performance.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
12:1 Teacher
Neighborhood Charter Schools
Harlem, New York
08.2024 - Current
- Developed and implemented individualized education plans for students with special needs.
- Analyzed student data and prescribed remediation and enrichment to meet learning needs.
- Collaborated closely with related services providers such as speech therapists.
- Cultivated classroom environment focused on inclusion and growth, fostering both social and academic development.
- Established positive relationships with students and their families.
- Utilized technology resources such as online programs and assistive devices.
- Adapted curriculum materials as needed to meet individualized student needs.
Knowledge Road: SETSS Provider
Immaculate Conception School
The Bronx, NY
10.2023 - 06.2024
- Assessed students' skills to determine their current functioning levels.
- Adapted general education lessons to meet students' needs.
- Provided students with the accommodations listed on their IEPs and IESPs through push-in and pull-out academic interventions.
- Used data to write quarterly progress reports throughout the school year to reflect students' progress and goals.
- Recording session observations to gather pertinent information about students' daily progress.
- Kept consistent communication (daily phone calls, reminders, and weekly newsletters) with families.
Kindergarten ICT, 2ND Grade ICT
KIPP NYC Charter School
Bronx, NY
07.2020 - 01.2023
- Co-planned and delivered lessons remotely that incorporated multiple learning modalities by analyzing the management needs and present levels of performance on a student’s IEP.
- Created progress monitoring systems to track IEP goals, and to assist with analyzing data when co-planning.
- Collaborated with other teachers during grade team and content team meetings to share ideas and grow professionally.
- Kept consistent communication (daily phone calls, reminders, and weekly newsletters) with families to involve them as an integral part of the team to assist parents in supporting their child’s learning.
- Implemented behavior plans by tracking consistent data, such as the duration and frequency of behaviors, and the consequences of behaviors.
4th Grade ICT, 1st/2nd Grade 12:1+1, 1st Grade ICT, Entering 4th Grade Summer School
New York City Department of Education
Washington Heights, NY
09.2016 - 06.2020
- Adapted the general education curriculum to meet the needs of various learners by analyzing the management needs and present levels of performance on a student’s IEP, as well as analyzing cross-grade Common Core Standards.
- Collaborated with general education teachers and service providers to ensure that supports were in place for students who have executive functioning and language delays, as per the IEPs.
- Taught using various co-teaching models, such as parallel teaching, alternative teaching, station teaching, and team teaching, based on the needs of the students and previously analyzed data.
- Adapted ELA/Literacy curriculums such as Journeys, ReadyGen, and Fundations, and the Go Math curriculum for teaching math, use research-based strategies such as explicit instruction and Reader’s/Writer’s Workshop to give authentic feedback and provide mentor texts to students.
- Taught using intervention programs such as DoTheMath, Reading Rescue, and Recipe for Reading.
- Collaborated with fellow teachers and administrators on the curriculum committee to assist the school in delivering a curriculum aligned to the Common Core Standards, and ensure a strong Tier 1 curriculum was in place.
- Guided students in creating a service-learning project within the America Scores soccer program that includes giving back to their community.
1st Grade SETSS Teacher
Democracy Prep Public Schools
Harlem, NY
08.2014 - 08.2016
- Collaborated and led goal-monitoring meetings with teachers and providers to track the progress of students with IEPs and students within the RTI tiered system, by focusing on how to employ techniques that would improve the development of sensory and perceptual motor skills, language, cognition, and memory.
- Guided student-led discussions using habits of discussion to ensure students were thinking critically and using inferential skills on a leveled text.
- Developed foundational literacy skills required for learning how to read through the use of Fundations.
- Created student action plans based on reading assessments that gauge students’ progress in reading accuracy, rate, fluency, comprehension, and spelling.
- Co-led professional development of teaching guided reading by highlighting the important components of planning, using data to focus on skills and strategies, along with the importance of the teacher as a facilitator during this time.
Education
M.S. - Special Education, Specialization: Behavior Disorders
Hunter College
New York, NY06.2017
B.A. - Child Study, Concentration in Sociology
St. Joseph’s College
Brooklyn, NY05.2014
Skills
- Individualized education plans
- Data analysis
- Assistive technology
- Curriculum adaptation
- Behavior management
- Progress monitoring
- Collaboration with specialists
- Family communication
- Co-teaching models
- Instructional strategies
- Student engagement
- Curriculum development
- Instructional design
- Goal setting
- Lesson planning
Certification
New York State Professional Certification, Childhood Education [1-6], Childhood Students with Disabilities [1-6]
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
12:1 Teacher
Neighborhood Charter Schools
08.2024 - Current
Knowledge Road: SETSS Provider
Immaculate Conception School
10.2023 - 06.2024
Kindergarten ICT, 2ND Grade ICT
KIPP NYC Charter School
07.2020 - 01.2023
4th Grade ICT, 1st/2nd Grade 12:1+1, 1st Grade ICT, Entering 4th Grade Summer School
New York City Department of Education
09.2016 - 06.2020
1st Grade SETSS Teacher
Democracy Prep Public Schools
08.2014 - 08.2016
M.S. - Special Education, Specialization: Behavior Disorders
Hunter College
B.A. - Child Study, Concentration in Sociology
St. Joseph’s College
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