Robin Hilker
Powder Springs,GA
Summary
Dedicated Learning Disabilities/Early Childhood Education teacher focused on building each student's strength and confidence as well as giving students firm guidelines to foster their social and academic growth.
Able to develop lesson plans that meet the auditory, visual, tactile, and kinesthetic needs of all students. Versed in working with all learning styles and able to meet the curriculum needs of students in Kindergarten through Sixth grades.
Overview
44
44
years of professional experience
Work History
Fifth/Sixth Grade Teacher
Atlanta Speech School
Atlanta Speech School
08.2008 - Current
- Taught a self-contained LD class of 8-10 students encompassing all subjects.
- Responsible for completing school applications, student report forms, report cards, holding three parent conferences per year, attending PSTG meetings, maintaining student files, and communicating with medical/professionals when appropriate.
- Worked collaboratively with a Speech and Language Teacher to create and reinforce a narrative writing program that provides skills and resources to help students with future middle school writing demands.
- Worked collaboratively with the Reading Teacher to create reading instruction based on historical fiction novels to enhance the students’ history studies and phonics studies to further develop the students' phonemic awareness and word attack skills, with generalization of skills to written language.
- Implemented a yoga program to help students learn strategies to help them deal with anxious moments.
Learning Lab Specialist
Atlanta Speech School
Atlanta Speech School
08.2000 - 04.2024
- Responsible for working with preschool-high school students in deficit areas.
- Completed achievement testing, written goals, procedures, progress, and final report, conferenced with parents, collaborated with current year's teacher and/or medical professional.
- Maintained student and professional attendance sheets.
- Student deficits include learning disabilities across all subject areas, attention deficit, study skills, executive functioning, language processing and comprehension, oral and written language, and autism.
- Worked with 4-6 students during the school year and tutored 8-12 students each summer.
Second Grade Teacher
Atlanta Speech School
Atlanta Speech School
08.2002 - 07.2008
- Responsible for 9-10 second-grade students in a self-contained LD classroom.
- Instructed all subjects.
- Completed students' reports, held three parent conferences a year, maintained student files, completed applications for mainstreaming students, communicated with medical/professionals, and attended PTSG meetings.
- Worked collaboratively with a Speech and Language Teacher to integrate unit topics emphasizing vocabulary, written responses, and projects.
- Collaborated with grade-level teachers to organize field trips, unit topics, materials, and programs.
- Assisted new second-level teacher through ordering and distribution of grade-level materials, unit lessons, and guidance for report writing, student files, and conference write-ups.
First Grade Teacher
Atlanta Speech School
Atlanta Speech School
08.1987 - 07.2002
- Responsible for a self-contained LD classroom of 9-10 students, including instruction of all major subjects.
- Held three parent conferences per year, completed student reports, maintained student files, completed applications for mainstreaming students, communicated with medical/professionals, when necessary, and attended PTSG meetings.
- Worked collaboratively with a Speech and Language Teacher on student written language development, listening comprehension, and following directions, including team teaching reading when appropriate.
- Some years, the team taught reading when needed to keep the entire class together for instruction.
- Worked collaboratively with the Reading Teacher to evaluate and divide the class into groups for reading comprehension, sight vocabulary drill and development, phonemic awareness, and decoding skills.
- We conducted continuous observation and testing of groups to optimize student performance and progress.
First Grade Teacher
Fulton County Schools
Beavers Thomas Elementary
08.1985 - 07.1987
- Responsible for a mainstream, public school, first-grade classroom of 20-25 students.
- Instructed all subject areas, held two parent conferences per year, maintained student permanent files, and attended PTA meetings.
Third Grade Teacher
Fitzgerald Elementary School
Fitzgerald, Georgia
08.1982 - 07.1985
- Responsible for a mainstreamed, third-grade classroom of 25-30 students.
- Held parent conferences once a year, maintained students' permanent files, and completed report cards.
- Instruction included all subject areas.
Education
Master of Science - Learning Disabilities
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia05.1986
Bachelor of Science - Early Childhood Education
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia08.1982
Education
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia05.1986
Skills
Wilson -1
Fundations
Spire
Lindamood Bell
Visualizing and Verbalizing
Great Leaps
Read Naturally
Shurley Grammar
Really Great Reading
Making Math Real
Math Their Way
Simple Solutions for math, grammar, and study skills
Key School – Multisensory Math
Orton Multisensory Math
RESA – Math Through Problem Solving
Timeline
Fifth/Sixth Grade Teacher
Atlanta Speech School
08.2008 - Current
Second Grade Teacher
Atlanta Speech School
08.2002 - 07.2008
Learning Lab Specialist
Atlanta Speech School
08.2000 - 04.2024
First Grade Teacher
Atlanta Speech School
08.1987 - 07.2002
First Grade Teacher
Fulton County Schools
08.1985 - 07.1987
Third Grade Teacher
Fitzgerald Elementary School
08.1982 - 07.1985
Master of Science - Learning Disabilities
University of Georgia
Bachelor of Science - Early Childhood Education
University of Georgia
Education
University of Georgia