Shaunquena Lewis
Palmdale,CA
Summary
Passionate, career-driven, and dedicated professional with a strong work ethic. Demonstrates exceptional talent, commitment, and thrives in a team-oriented environment. Committed to delivering high-quality results and exceeding expectations. Motivated individual consistently going above and beyond to achieve success.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Resource Specialist Teacher
Palmdale School District
08.2019 - Current
Special Education Assistant
ISANA Academies
06.2016 - 08.2018
- Delivered personalized educational, behavioral, and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.
- Documented student behaviors, interventions, and outcomes to enable lead teacher to address pertinent issues.
- In absence of regular teacher, took over to lead all classroom instruction and management.
- Prepared instructional materials for group and one-on-one use to comply with established curriculum.
- Maintained inclusive learning environment to enable students to gain maximum benefit from lessons.
- Developed professional relationships with school staff to contribute to strong learning community.
- Built trust and rapport with students through positive reinforcement and strong communication skills.
- Facilitated curriculum lessons in positive, engaging environment to maximize student learning and on-task behavior.
- Conducted individualized assessments to determine students' academic progress.
- Gave one-on-one attention to students, while maintaining overall focus on entire group.
- Aided elementary school special education teachers in reinforcing efforts for children with various learning and behavioral needs.
- Collaborated with teacher to create customized classroom environment integral to students' needs.
Special Education Teacher
Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD
02.2014 - 06.2016
- Cultivated connections and strong student rapport to foster classroom engagement, in addition to recording student progress to inform parents and school administration.
- Taught multiple subjects to students with intellectual or emotional disabilities.
- Redirected students using Positive Behavior Support (PBS).
- Partnered with standard education teachers from across academic departments.
- Assisted struggling students to maintain progress levels by designing individualized lesson plans focused on areas for improvement.
- Created and managed IEPs to define student learning objectives and educational strategies, in addition to applying instructional knowledge and methods to support goals.
- Delivered effective and differentiated classroom instruction to range of neurodiverse students.
- Taught students across multiple classifications and degrees of special needs.
- Led activities that developed students' physical, emotional, and social growth.
- Modified general education curriculum for special-needs students using various instructional techniques and technologies.
- Instructed students with physical and cognitive disabilities.
- Coordinated special education students and teacher assistant schedules with master schedule.
- Provided emotional support to students and families.
Education
Master of Arts - Special Education
Alliant International University
San Diego, CA03-2022
Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Studies
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Carson, CA12.2005
Skills
- IEP implementation
- Special education expertise
- Emotional Support
- Student Advocacy
Timeline
Resource Specialist Teacher
Palmdale School District
08.2019 - Current
Special Education Assistant
ISANA Academies
06.2016 - 08.2018
Special Education Teacher
Los Angeles Unified School District, LAUSD
02.2014 - 06.2016
Bachelor of Arts - Liberal Studies
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Master of Arts - Special Education
Alliant International University
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