Patricia Alabi
Memphis,TN
Summary
I am currently seeking a position as a Special Education instructing students with Mild Moderate and/ or Moderate Severe disabilites that display cognitive, behavioral, and learning needs. I have a California Special Education Credential instructing Mild/Moderate, Moderate/ Severe, and English as a Second Language Learners from grades K-22. Versatile Special Education Teacher with focus on individual student needs across academia and emotional development. Empathetic and accommodating in design and implementation of hands-on lessons, catering to diverse learning abilities. Proficient in employing constant communication, patience and positive reinforcement in team efforts to deliver exceptional educational tools, fostering academic achievement.
Overview
12
12
years of post-secondary education
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Special Education Teacher
Pathways In Education High School
Memphis, TN
11.2019 - 10.2020
- Modified general education curriculum for special-needs students using various instructional techniques and technologies.
- Built meaningful relationships with both the parents and the students in order to create a nurturing environment that makes at risk students feel safe and supported.
- Supported student educational and vocational planning to help each optimize learning strategies and reap long-term career benefits.
- Created and managed IEPs to define student learning objectives and educational strategies, in addition to applying instructional knowledge and methods to support goals.
- Communicated with students other teachers to understand where and how the student was performing within their classrooms.
- Brainstormed with teachers how to come up with effective strategies that will help decrease behaviors and enhance learning within the classroom.
- Attended monthly staff training sessions.
- Verbally interacted with students throughout day.
- Referred students to counseling for mental and emotional health.
- Gave students progress reports on a regular basis to help ensure they were on track with their units for each learning period.
- Conducted Re-evaluation Meetings for students.
- Communicated with School Psychologist on a regular basis regarding students on my caseload whose Triennal was due.
- Utilized Zoom and Google Classroom to assign and teach lessons online.
- Utilized EasyCBM in order to assess students on a regular basis for both math and reading.
- Used assessments to help develop realistic and measurable IEP goals for each student.
- Referred students to other programs when they have became pregnant to help give them support while they are pregnant.
- Cultivated connections and strong student rapport to foster classroom engagement, in addition to recording student progress to inform parents and school administration.
- Referred students to Vocational programs within the city of Memphis.
- Taught Achieve 3000 reading program to students that are at risk for reading.
- Attended monthly staff training sessions.
- Created and managed IEPs to define student learning objectives and educational strategies, in addition to applying instructional knowledge and methods to support goals.
- Verbally interacted with students throughout day.
- Cultivated connections and strong student rapport to foster classroom engagement, in addition to recording student progress to inform parents and school administration.
- Organized instruction material, including constructing bulletin boards and setting up work areas.
- Developed and managed instructional materials and reports.
- Collaborated with students with multiple degrees of special needs to accomplish various tasks.
Special Education Teacher
Aspire Charter Schools, Middle
Memphis, TN
03.2019 - 11.2019
- Implemented the modified standards for the Functional Skills within the curriculum for each lesson in Language Arts, History, Science, and Math.
- Collaborated with program specialist, school psychologist, and school counselor to implement behavioral strategies to help decrease disruptive student behavior within the classroom.
- Collaborated with paraprofessional to help with problem solving strategies to decrease student behaviors, increase academic performance, and increase our productivity as a team to help the students be successful within the classroom.
- Created and managed IEPs to define student learning objectives and educational strategies, in addition to applying instructional knowledge and methods to support goals.
- Taught multiple subjects to students with intellectual or emotional disabilities.
- Attended professional development and teaching trainings to increase my knowledge of researched based strategies to enhance the learning of my students and decrease behaviors.
- Incorporated the Learning Lab which is incorporating physical education with academics to enhance student learning within the classroom.
- Helped students meet their goal on the modified state Tennessee Assessment.
- Incorporated Community Based Instruction into my curriculum by taking students to Community Based Trips to help them incorporate what they will need to know to be successful for a potential job they would like to have after they graduate high school.
- Worked with students with moderate to severe autism to increase life skills.
- Made learning fun by incorporating games to help enhance student learning.
- Help students to increase their independence when it came to, hygiene and learning to make their own food.
- Modified instruction based on students’ instructional needs.
- Collaborated and communicated with parents regarding students progress within the classroom.
- Listened to feedback from my supervisors to help me enhance instructional lessons for students.
- Worked with students with moderate to severe autism to increase life skills.
- Developed and managed instructional materials and reports.
- Created and managed IEPs to define student learning objectives and educational strategies, in addition to applying instructional knowledge and methods to support goals.
- Taught multiple subjects to students with intellectual or emotional disabilities.
- Organized instruction material, including constructing bulletin boards and setting up work areas.
- Taught students in variety of settings, including self-contained and resource environments.
- Led activities that developed students' physical, emotional and social growth.
- Coordinated special education students and teacher assistant schedules with master schedule.
- Collaborated with students with multiple degrees of special needs to accomplish various tasks.
Special Education Teacher
Shelby County Schools, Wooddale High
School
Memphis, TN
07.2018 - 03.2019
- Implemented the Alternate Academic Standards within the curriculum for each lesson in Language Arts, History, Science, and Math.
- Collaborated with behavior specialist and school counselors to implement behavior strategies to help decrease disruptive student behavior within the classroom.
- Collaborated with paraprofessional to help with problem solving strategies to decrease student behaviors, increase academic performance, and increase our productivity as a team to help the students be successful within the classroom.
- Taught multiple subjects to students with intellectual or emotional disabilities.
- Worked with students across multiple classifications and degrees of special needs.
- Attended professional development and teaching trainings to increase my knowledge of researched based strategies to enhance the learning of my students and decrease behaviors.
- Incorporated Community Based Instruction into my curriculum by taking students each month to Community Based Trips to help them incorporate what they will need to know to be successful for a potential job they would like to have after they graduate high school.
- Modified instruction based on students’ instructional needs.
- Proposed realistic and measurable goals for students at their IEP meeting.
- Collaborated and communicated with parents regarding students progress within the classroom.
- Listened to feedback from my supervisors to help me enhance instructional lessons for students.
- Taught students about the concepts of time and money so they will be successful with these important concepts that will follow them the rest of their life.
- Designed and implemented point system to encourage positive behavior.
- Worked with students with moderate to severe autism to increase life skills.
- Developed and managed instructional materials and reports.
- Created and managed IEPs to define student learning objectives and educational strategies, in addition to applying instructional knowledge and methods to support goals.
- Attended monthly staff training sessions.
- Gave one-on-one attention to students, while maintaining overall focus on entire group.
- Implemented and taught life skills program, enabling students to master such tasks as checkbook balancing.
- Worked with students across multiple classifications and degrees of special needs.
- Organized instruction material, including constructing bulletin boards and setting up work areas.
- Taught students in variety of settings, including self-contained and resource environments.
- Led activities that developed students' physical, emotional and social growth.
- Coordinated special education students and teacher assistant schedules with master schedule.
- Collaborated with students with multiple degrees of special needs to accomplish various tasks.
Special Education Teacher
The Cleta Harder Developmental School
Habra, CA
11.2017 - 05.2018
- Collaborated with parents on the academic and life skills goals parents wanted to see their child be successful in.
- Use Board maker to help design pecs for students who are nonverbal.
- Modified general education curriculum for special-needs students using various instructional techniques and technologies.
- Use Board Maker to create modified books of Core Content Subject Matter ( Language Arts, History, and Science), to help students comprehend the reading material better at their reading level.
- Collaborated with the behavior specialist to implement behavior strategies to help decrease disruptive student behavior within the classroom.
- Help students to increase their independence when it came to, hygiene, learning to make their own food, and dress themselves correctly by using task analysis that contain visuals for each step.
- Collaborated with other educational specialist to gain ideas and get insight within regarding academic and behavior strategies to help my students be successful.
- Worked with a program called SEIS to help write up annual IEP goals for each of my students, and academic reports for progress reports for each of those goals.
- Created a safe and nurturing environment for all my students within the classroom.
- Communicated with parents daily regarding their child.
- Collected and assessed data on a weekly basis to help determine the students performance within the classroom.
- Used highly motivated reinforcers to help students decrease non compliance behaviors.
- Proposed realistic and measurable goals for students at their IEP meeting.
- Modified general education curriculum for special-needs students using various instructional techniques and technologies.
- Redirected students using Positive Behavior Support (PBS).
- Cultivated connections and strong student rapport to foster classroom engagement, in addition to recording student progress to inform parents and school administration.
- Created learning and content strategies to meet needs of mentally and physically disabled students.
- Coordinated special education students and teacher assistant schedules with master schedule.
Special Education Teacher
Whittier City School District
Whittier, CA
06.2015 - 06.2017
- Modified general education curriculum for special-needs students using various instructional techniques and technologies.
- Constructed lesson plans.
- Use technology to help aid my students understanding.
- Activated students background knowledge to help make learning more meaningful.
- Modified lesson to fit the needs of the students, so that the lesson will be more accessible to students with special needs.
- Conducted IEP meetings for students on my caseload.
- Wrote up goals and benchmarks for students IEP according to informal and formal assessments.
- Implemented games within the lesson to enhance students’ learning.
- Incorporated SDAIE strategies within the lessons to help enhance learning for all students especially for students with special needs and English Language Learners.
- Tutored children one on one, and in small group who had a hard time understanding the material.
- Implemented classroom and behavioral management strategies.
- Collaborated with general education teachers to create meaningful lessons for the students.
- Implemented hands on projects to enhance students understanding in mathematics.
- Use visual aids such as graphic organizers and pictures to help my second language learners and special needs students understand the subjects covered in class.
- Wrote behavioral goals for students who needed behavioral support.
- Use students’ preferred method of learning to help create lessons specifically for them in order to get students to master goals and learning objectives.
- Use Goal Book to help create effective goals for students on my caseload.
- Attended Seminars on how to write IEP goals and how to keep information confidential.
- Use Starfall an academic program to help students with language arts and math goals.
- Use Teacher Pay Teacher as a teaching resource to help get activities and worksheets to help support my student learning within the classroom.
- A member of Scholastic.com and Education.com and use materials from these sites to help implement my curriculum for my students , Taught Small group lessons, (math and reading).
- Assisted students to lunch, restrooms, and on field trips.
- Communicated with the student’ teachers and parents to talk about the progress of that student.
- Communicated with Instructional Assistants about issues and expectations regarding the classroom environment and students.
- Communicated with student about their academic and behavioral progress in the classroom.
- One on One tutoring, and help student with class work and homework assignments.
- Assisted the general education teacher within the classroom.
- Counseled students when there was a problem.
- Communicated with school principal about issues that needed their attention.
- Effectively use SEIS to write up students’ IEP that were on my case load.
- Copy lecture notes for students that were integrated into general education courses.
- Kept a record of students’ assignments.
- Recorded students progress on their IEP goals on a consistent basis.
- Assessed how students was doing in the classroom based on quizzes, tests, and projects.
- Administered the Woodcock Johnson.
- Wrote up Academic Reports for students on my caseload for their Triennial.
- Conducted and presented a Triennial and Annual for students on my caseload.
- Collaborated with Program Specialist for Special Education about how to effectively write up goals and how to implement instruction for students who were more severe cognitively.
- Created Social Stories to help students with problem behavior within the classroom.
- Communicated with general education teacher on how to implement social stories for student within the classroom.
- Awarded students based on their behavioral and academic progress within their general education classroom.
- Deescalated problem behavioral of students in order to maintain a safe and healthy classroom environment.
- Attended IEP and SST meetings for students.
- Implemented behavioral charts.
- Recorded student behavior from week to week.
- Communicated with the student’ teachers and parents to talk about the progress of that student.
- Communicated with the counselor, behavioral specialist, and Resource teacher on other ways to help the student.
- Modified general education curriculum for special-needs students using various instructional techniques and technologies.
- Created learning and content strategies to meet needs of mentally and physically disabled students.
- Worked in self-contained and resource environments to teach students variety of skills.
- Organized instruction material, including constructing bulletin boards and setting up work areas.
- Taught multiple subjects to students with intellectual or emotional disabilities.
- Developed and managed instructional materials and reports.
- Cultivated connections and strong student rapport to foster classroom engagement, in addition to recording student progress to inform parents and school administration.
Education
Mild Moderate/ Moderate To Severe Credentials - Liberal Studies
National University
La Jolla, CA 07.2009 - 04.2014
Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Arts With An Emphasizes in Education
California State San Marcos
San Marcos, CA 06.2005 - 12.2007
Associate of Arts - Liberal Arts And General Studies
Palomar College
San Marcos, CA 08.2002 - 06.2005
High School Diploma -
Grossmont High School
La Mesa, CA 08.1999 - 06.2001
Skills
Special education
undefinedTimeline
Special Education Teacher
Pathways In Education High School
11.2019 - 10.2020
Special Education Teacher
Aspire Charter Schools, Middle
03.2019 - 11.2019
Special Education Teacher
Shelby County Schools, Wooddale High
School
07.2018 - 03.2019
Special Education Teacher
The Cleta Harder Developmental School
11.2017 - 05.2018
Special Education Teacher
Whittier City School District
06.2015 - 06.2017
Mild Moderate/ Moderate To Severe Credentials - Liberal Studies
National University
07.2009 - 04.2014
Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Arts With An Emphasizes in Education
California State San Marcos
06.2005 - 12.2007
Associate of Arts - Liberal Arts And General Studies
Palomar College
08.2002 - 06.2005
High School Diploma -
Grossmont High School
08.1999 - 06.2001
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