Pamela Towne

Special Educator, Started Grades 5 - 6, moved to Grades 9 - 10 and spent my last 6 years Grades K - 4. Responsibilities: Case management to include comprehensive evaluation, IEP development, curriculum modification, individual and small group instruction, collaboration and consultation with content area classroom teachers. For students with behavioral challenges, writing behavior plans, supervising individual paraeducators, working with local mental health office staff and SRS staff to create and implement coordinated treatment plans. Initiated a work group to adapt 7th grade math curriculum, Connected Mathematics, for a diverse group of learners in the classroom. Met weekly with math teacher(s), curriculum director, other special educator and paraeducator to modify weekly lesson plans, activities, tests, portfolio problems, and homework for the students on IEPs. This group was very successful. It re-integrated two students back into the classroom and developed a nice working partnership between the math teacher(s) and the special educators.

Conducted educational evaluations with middle and high school students, wrote evaluation reports and compiled recommendations for academic interventions and accommodations. Consulted with/mentored three new waivered special education teachers regarding all aspects of special education practice, i.e., legal issues, writing IEPs, planning comprehensive special education evaluations, consulting with classroom teachers, supervising paraeducators and specialized instruction.

Consulting Teacher, K-4 Responsibilities: Case managing all special education students K-4. For those with behavioral challenges writing behavior plans, supervising individual paraeducators, working with local mental health office staff and SRS staff to create and implement coordinated treatment plans. In addition, all regular special education duties for students with a wide variety of disabilities, including: comprehensive evaluations, maintaining necessary special education records and forms, writing IEPs, curriculum modification, individual and small group instruction, collaboration and consultation with classroom teachers.