Melody Barton

• Develop student-specific tutoring plans in concert parents
• Participate in Tutor Chest's professional development in order to improve tutoring practices and learn new tutoring techniques.

• Wrote, prepared and submitted weekly lesson plans and created and designed homework, quizzes and exams to test ability levels.
• Combined students' personal interests with lesson objectives to create student-specific activities.
• Assigned lessons and corrected homework.
• Developed and taught ESL curriculum to improve students' conversational abilities.
• Managed several internet-based language programs.
• Used Verbling's online learning platform to maintain current and accurate records of students' grades, attendance and course placement.
• Communicated with students using Verbling's online learning platform, using webcams and headphones.
• Provided instruction using textbooks, worksheets, games and visuals to help improve reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.

• Followed classroom plans left by class teacher to continue student education and reinforce core concepts.
• Upheld classroom routines to support student environments and maintain consistent schedules.
• Instructed early intervention services Head Start students in early childhood special education principles, concepts and in-depth subject matter.
• Collaborated with teaching staff to devise and implement coordinated educational strategies and student support networks.
• Diversified classroom instruction and group activities to successfully support students with unique strengths and learning styles.
• Took over an Early Childhood Special Education Classroom Early Intervention Head Start class for 3 months, managing all classroom assignments, student needs and recordkeeping.
• Organized and cleaned teaching areas after daily use to maintain high standards for returning teachers or other substitutes.
• Led classroom activities for play-based and immersive learning.
• Maintained day-to-day classroom management and discipline to promote learning initiatives.

• Exercised tact and diplomacy in dealing with sensitive, complex employee issues and situations.
• Identified barriers and assisted in resolving communication problems between the student and others (classmates, faculty/staff, education/special stakeholders).
• Supported student education by accompanying a student with multiple disabilities to his life skills special education classroom and his environmental science inclusion class; also accompanied the student to school assemblies and to school/school district approved field trips to Special Olympics and other school-approved events in order to translate instruction and conversation.
• Interpreted voice-to-sign and sign-to-voice modes to accurately convey thought, intent and spirit of speakers.
• Attended IEP meetings to provide accurate consecutive translations of conversations among IEP team members.
• Consulted specialized dictionaries, thesauruses and reference books to identify closest equivalents for nuanced terminology, words and phrases.
• Provided cultural input to speakers to help parties who did not speak similar languages communicate with and understand one another.
• Maintained message content, tone and emotion as closely as possible.

• Filmed and recorded the university's Humanities lectures in order to provide accessible accommodations to students receiving disability services through the university's Humanities program.

Pre-Service Comprehensive Developmental Classroom-Activity Based (CDC-A)

Self-Contained Special Education

Grade: A

Pre-Service Special Education Inclusion Teacher

Grade: A

Pre-Service Special Education Teacher/Pre-Service Educational Diagnostician

Grade: A

Pre-Service Special Education Inclusion Teacher

Inclusive Special Education

Grade: A

Comprehensive Developmental Classroom (CDC) Pre-Service Teacher

Self-Contained Special Education

Grade: A

Comprehensive Developmental Classroom (CDC) Pre-Service Teacher

Self-Contained Special Education

Grade A

Pre-Service Special Education Inclusion Teacher

Inclusive Special Education

Grade: A