TENAH VESZI
Brooklyn,NY
Summary
An experienced Special Education Teacher with a diverse background in teaching. I have a wide range of skills including expertise in ensuring students' success, preparing for standardized tests, complying with Individualized Education Programs (IEP), and utilizing Orton-Gillingham and Wilson Reading System methodologies. I am adept at implementing best practices in literacy and math, fostering collaboration, analyzing data, and ensuring engagement. I have a proven track record of success and possess knowledge of various literacy and math interventions. My strengths lie in addressing students' needs to ensure their thriving in an adaptive and inclusive educational environment.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Learning Specialist
Compass Charter School
10.2017 - Current
- Documented student behaviors, interventions, and outcomes to enable lead teacher to address pertinent issues.
- Delivered personalized educational, behavioral, and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.
- Prepared instructional materials for group and one-on-one use to comply with established curriculum and IEP goals.
- Developed and implemented lesson plans to reinforce learning concepts and skills.
- Conducted assessments of students to determine individual needs.
- Facilitated small group instruction to address individual learning needs.
- Collaborated with other educators to develop instructional strategies.
- Monitored student performance to evaluate effectiveness of instructional strategies.
- Interventions implemented Leveled Literacy Intervention, Wilson Reading System, Do The Math and The Writing Revolution, Edmark Level I and 2
- Provide push-ins support and pull out services for third, fourth and fifth grades in math and literacy.
Learning Specialist
Mary McDowell Friends School
09.2016 - 06.2017
- Maintained inclusive learning environment to enable students to gain maximum benefit from lessons.
- Developed and implemented lesson plans to reinforce learning concepts and skills.
- Collaborated with teachers and staff members to evaluate program success and alignment with student needs.
- Supported students in the use of technology to enhance their learning.
- Facilitated student engagement and collaboration to enhance classroom learning.
- Monitored student performance to evaluate effectiveness of instructional strategies.
Special Education Head Teacher
Mary McDowell Friends School
09.2014 - 06.2015
- Taught students across multiple classifications and degrees of special needs.
- Delivered effective and differentiated classroom instruction to range of neurodiverse students.
- Cultivated connections and strong student rapport to foster classroom engagement, in addition to recording student progress to inform parents and school administration.
- Modified general education curriculum for special-needs students using various instructional techniques and technologies.
- Implemented The Writing Revolution writing intervention and Equals Math.
- Taught multiple subjects to students with intellectual or emotional disabilities.
- Conducted a small Orton-Gillingham reading, writing and spelling group.
- Created and implemented curriculum and multi-sensory lesson plans in mathematics, reading, social studies, and Quakerism.
Special Education Teacher
New York French American Charter School
09.2012 - 05.2014
- Taught second and fourth graders students with learning disabilities in an English and French Collaborative Team Teaching (CTT) class.
- Delivered effective and differentiated classroom instruction to range of neurodiverse students.
- Taught multiple subjects to students with intellectual or emotional disabilities.
- Modified general education curriculum for special-needs students using various instructional techniques and technologies.
- Created and managed IEPs to define student learning objectives and educational strategies, in addition to applying instructional knowledge and methods to support goals.
Special Education Teacher
League School
09.2008 - 06.2011
- 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.
- Partnered with standard education teachers from across academic departments.
- Instructed students with physical and cognitive disabilities.
- Developed Individual Education Plans for students with special needs.
- Taught emotionally disturbed and learning disabled students in a 8:1 self-contained classroom.
- Created and implemented curriculum and multi-sensory lesson plans for all subject areas and technology; assessed student's development; participated in State Examinations.
- Participated in Treatment Comprehensive Plan met with clinicians to review and create academic and sociallong and short-term goals for students.
Education
Master of Science - Special Education
Long Island University
Brooklyn, NY05.2009
Bachelor of Arts - Studio Arts
Brooklyn College of The City University of New York
Brooklyn, NY06.2006
Skills
- Performance Improvement
- Interdisciplinary Team Collaboration
- Enrichment Activities
- IEP compliance
- Teacher Support
- Individual Instruction
- Orton Gillingham, Judy Hochman: Writing Method, Fundations, Just Words, Wilson Reading System, Stern Math Do the Math, and Equals Mathematics
- Activity Planning
- Multidisciplinary team collaboration
Certification
New York State Professional Certification in Special Education Grades 1-6.
Wilson Certification as a Wilson Dyslexia Practitioner (W.D.P)
Languages
French
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Learning Specialist
Compass Charter School
10.2017 - Current
Learning Specialist
Mary McDowell Friends School
09.2016 - 06.2017
Special Education Head Teacher
Mary McDowell Friends School
09.2014 - 06.2015
Special Education Teacher
New York French American Charter School
09.2012 - 05.2014
Special Education Teacher
League School
09.2008 - 06.2011
Master of Science - Special Education
Long Island University
Bachelor of Arts - Studio Arts
Brooklyn College of The City University of New York
New York State Professional Certification in Special Education Grades 1-6.
Wilson Certification as a Wilson Dyslexia Practitioner (W.D.P)
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