Tammy Gaffney

Versatile and dedicated experienced teacher with a focus on the individual needs of special education students. Empathetic and accommodating in the design and implementation of hands-on lessons. Exceptional skills in working with teachers, parents, and specialists to meet the educational needs of students. Versatile Special Education Teacher with a focus on individual student needs across academia and emotional development. Data-driven, progress monitoring accommodating in thedesign 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.

Special Education Teacher equipped with positive attitude and patience vital to teaching children with special needs. Extensive experience creating innovative lesson plans and comfortable learning environments. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

• Trained fellow teachers on the procedures for completing Individual Education Plans.
• Achieved the development of 2D or Not 2D Art Club, Jasper Middle School, Cross curricular after school art club which incorporated math and science standards into a collaborative project shared between grade levels to create fine art and/or murals through effectively supporting students with and without disabilities through effectively providing a multiple of strategies to uniformly create one group project per semester.
• Collaborated with team of general education teachers in each core academic subject to modify or adapt curriculum standards for students with disabilities in order to provide access to the standards.

• Art Club – Extracurricular Club
• Title I After School Tutoring Program; Provided Tutoring Support for math students
• Teacher Peer Buddy Ready Program; Reading Support for remediation students
• Year Book Club
• Special Olympics Community

At the end of a school year, I decided to take a break from education and pursue the dream of opening my own business. It is a furniture flipping business in which I was able to use the profits from this and make necessary repairs to the house I lived in. I found this experience of working on furniture and repurposing it along with many other household items such as glass vases to birdbaths, very rewarding and gave me internal piece.  In the year of this business I taught myself techniques for painting, art, and construction of various materials to be very rewarding. I completed major repairs on the house I had in another state and sold the home in 3 days as a rather whimisical house and did so to move to South Carolina and become an educator once again. I often created projects over the summer months with my three children and taught these skills to them as well. I wanted to see my youngest child whom also had an IEP throughout his education, graduate from high school. 

Once my three children were not receiving special education services any longer, I was able to pursue interests in becoming an art teacher, studing presently for the state art assessment as well as the general education middle school math test. Participating in these assessments and pursuing the goal to become an art teacher would replace the business I closed upon moving here to south carolina. 

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