Elizabeth B. McEwan
Winston-Salem,NC
Summary
Results-focused, versatile and dependable educator offering twenty-five years of experience supporting and celebrating youth through formative years. Inspired to collaborate in an environment that promotes individualized learning for children of all ages with learning differences. Extensive knowledge and experience in the assessment of students referred to Exceptional Children’s services who either meet or do not meet the eligibility criteria, as well as furthering the reevaluation process to maintain eligibility or exit services. Expertise in composing thoughtful narrative reports that highlight trends, interpret data and make recommendations based on observations, assessment data, and evidence-based instruction. Highly attentive to the intricacies and nuances of culturally, racially and socioeconomically diverse populations. Excellent communicator with advanced problem-solving and organizational skills willing to take on added responsibilities to meet/exceed team goals.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Exceptional Children's Teacher
Winston Salem Forsyth County Schools
06.2021 - Current
- Conduct informal and formal assessments of students to determine and target areas in need of growth.
- Facilitate small group instruction to address individual learning needs and styles.
- Utilize technology to create meaningful lessons that engage students.
- Help students with learning differences integrate into general classroom environments by advocating for their academic needs and modifications while problem solving with general education teachers.
- Design individual education plans to encourage and accommodate student growth according to varied learning styles and diagnoses.
- Coordinate regular meetings to share and analyze student performance data and success plans with colleagues and parents.
- Implement behavior modification techniques to improve student social and academic performance.
- Provide ongoing emotional support to students and families.
Special Education Reading Teacher
Summit School
08.2015 - 06.2021
- Designed and implemented multisensory instruction based on dyslexic student psychoeducational evaluations, standardized tests, and informal assessments, for students in grades 2-7.
- Composed thorough and detailed narrative reports summarizing and highlighting student growth, trends, and trajectory.
- Interpreted student assessment data to tailor highly individualized and systematic Orton-Gillingham lessons in phonics, decoding, and encoding.
- Promoted lifelong love of reading and literacy to all of my students.
- Created positive, nurturing, and and engaging classroom environment where students felt safe to take risks, fail, and rise.
- Contacted parents to discuss student progress and pertinent social/behavioral/academic issues.
- Participated in professional development to feed my own lifelong love of learning and literacy.
Special Education Tutor and Substitute Teacher
Various
09.2013 - 06.2015
- Provided elementary-high school dyslexic students with appropriate and individualized learning activities in literacy and math to help them fulfill their potential for intellectual, emotional, physical and social growth.
- Delivered personalized educational, behavioral, and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.
- Assisted students in developing study skills and strategies.
- Led tutoring workshops for groups of students with related tutoring needs at schools, homes and public spaces.
- Documented student progress and provided regular updates to parents.
- Maintained records of student behaviors, interventions, and outcomes to enable lead teacher to address pertinent issues.
- Followed classroom plans left by class teacher to continue student education and reinforce core concepts.
Exceptional Children's Teacher
Union County Public Schools
08.2008 - 06.2012
- Administered informal assessments to gauge student progress.
- Designed individual education plans to encourage student growth according to different learning abilities and needs.
- Utilized technology and multisensory techniques to create meaningful lessons that engaged students.
- Modified students’ academic goals and classroom modifications in accordance with their primary category of eligibility, ranging from Traumatic Brain Injury to Autism Spectrum Disorder, grades 6-8.
- Implemented behavior modification techniques to improve student social and academic performance.
- Collaborated daily with colleagues, administrators and parents to problem solve and promote student success.
Special Education Reading Teacher
Fletcher School
06.2007 - 06.2008
- Designed and implemented lesson plans after extrapolating data from student profiles and psychoeducational evaluations.
- Effectively facilitated small group instruction in remedial reading via Orton-Gillingham methodology to sixth grade dyslexic students.
- Composed data-driven and meaningful narrative reports for parents that showcased their child's reading progress and uniqueness.
- Nurtured a life-long love of reading to my students.
- Collaborated daily with colleagues and administrators to ensure and promote student success.
Special Education Teacher
Triad Academy
06.2004 - 06.2007
- Annually administered, analyzed, and generated reports for all students on comprehensive standardized tests, including the WJ-III, GORT, and KTEA for student placement into reading and math classes.
- Extrapolated pertinent information from students' psycho-educational reports and transferred data as classroom modifications to student data sheets for teachers to implement.
- Assisted school director with student placement into advantageous, ability-based groupings, based on assessment results.
- Efficiently facilitated remediation of literacy skills for students with dyslexia or language-based learning differences, grades four-nine, in a highly structured, nurturing environment.
- Challenged seventh-tenth grade students to become strategic and independent readers through application of strategies and in-depth novel analysis.
- Instructed and engaged sixth-eighth grade students in Pre-Algebra.
- Participated in various club offerings each week to teach children skills beyond the classroom, such as knitting and scrapbooking.
Reading Teacher and Tutor
Concord School District
08.2002 - 06.2004
- Instructed small reading groups of at risk, high school students.
- Interpreted student assessment data to ascertain best intervention methods.
- Assessed and reported on each student's reading progress in accordance with policies developed by school district.
- Collaborated with General Education teachers on curriculum modifications while advocating for students' learning needs.
- Provided tutoring and after school assistance to students requiring additional help with reading.
Education
Master of Arts - Middle School Teaching
Mary Baldwin College
Staunton, VABachelor of Arts - Psychology
Roanoke College
Salem, VA1985
Skills
- Assessment Administration: KTEA-III, WJIV, WIST, GORT-5, IOTA, CORE
- Extensive teaching experience in resource and inclusive elementary-middle school classrooms
- Creating and implementing Individualized Education Plans
- Thorough & timely data collection for progress monitoring of IEP goals
- Strict adherence to IEP Compliance
- Strong and compassionate IEP team collaborator
Accomplishments
- Consistent high success rate of student growth in reading at a minimum of one year.
- One of my Resource EC students achieved a score of four on his Reading End-of-Grade test in 2010.
- Associate Level, Orton-Gillingham Practitioner, November 2019
Certification
North Carolina, Standard Professional II, Language Arts, Grades 6-9 and Special Education: General Curriculum, K-12. Expires June 30, 2025.
A/AOGPE, Associate Level, Orton-Gillingham Practitioner, November 2019.
Timeline
Exceptional Children's Teacher
Winston Salem Forsyth County Schools
06.2021 - Current
Special Education Reading Teacher
Summit School
08.2015 - 06.2021
Special Education Tutor and Substitute Teacher
Various
09.2013 - 06.2015
Exceptional Children's Teacher
Union County Public Schools
08.2008 - 06.2012
Special Education Reading Teacher
Fletcher School
06.2007 - 06.2008
Special Education Teacher
Triad Academy
06.2004 - 06.2007
Reading Teacher and Tutor
Concord School District
08.2002 - 06.2004
Master of Arts - Middle School Teaching
Mary Baldwin College
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
Roanoke College
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