Toni Carter

• Delivered personalized educational, behavioral, and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary team members to develop comprehensive support plans for each student''s unique needs.
• Taught multiple subjects to students with intellectual or emotional disabilities.
• Maintained inclusive learning environment to enable students to gain maximum benefit from lessons.
• Supported students in developing social skills through structured activities and positive reinforcement techniques.
• Evaluated and revised lesson plans and course content to achieve student-centered learning.
• Prepared instructional materials for group and one-on-one use to comply with established curriculum.
• Enhanced students'' critical thinking skills through problem-solving activities and hands-on learning experiences.
• Provided one-on-one support for students with learning disabilities, enabling them to excel in their coursework.
• Set up visual aids, equipment, and classroom displays to support teacher's lesson delivery.
• Assessed students'' progress regularly using formal and informal assessments, adjusting instruction based on data-driven results.
• Developed and implemented classroom routines to address varying student needs.
• Collaborated with teachers and therapists to develop individualized educational plans for each student, ensuring optimal progress.
• Provided crisis intervention in response to emergencies, employing existing trust, and rapport to deescalate situations.
• Implemented behavior modification strategies, resulting in improved self-regulation and classroom participation among students.
• Developed strong rapport with parents and caregivers, fostering a supportive home-school connection for improved student outcomes.
• Managed individualized goals and objectives for each student while maintaining accurate records of progress towards achieving them.
• Coordinated with general education teachers to modify lessons as needed for inclusion of special needs students into mainstream classrooms when appropriate.
• Improved student reading comprehension by incorporating diverse texts and teaching strategies in the curriculum.
• Documented student behaviors, interventions, and outcomes to enable lead teacher to address pertinent issues.
• Assisted in creating a safe and nurturing classroom environment that promoted emotional well-being and academic growth for all students.
• Promoted positive behavior management techniques, resulting in a decrease in classroom disruptions and increased engagement from students.
• Advocated for special needs students at school-wide meetings, ensuring their voices were heard and their unique challenges were addressed.
• Led professional development workshops for staff on best practices for working with special needs students, strengthening overall program effectiveness.
• Utilized research-based interventions to improve academic performance among struggling learners, closing achievement gaps over time.
• Monitored student classroom and outdoors activities to promote student safety.
• Enhanced learning experiences by incorporating specialized tools and resources tailored to the needs of special education students.
• Led activities that developed students' physical, emotional, and social growth.
• Provided life skills programming for students with moderate to severe autism.
• Created and managed IEPs to define student learning objectives and educational strategies, in addition to applying instructional knowledge and methods to support goals.
• Cultivated connections and strong student rapport to foster classroom engagement, in addition to recording student progress to inform parents and school administration.
• Partnered with standard education teachers from across academic departments.
• Delivered effective and differentiated classroom instruction to range of neurodiverse students.
• Instructed students with physical and cognitive disabilities.
• Taught students across multiple classifications and degrees of special needs.
• Modified general education curriculum for special-needs students using various instructional techniques and technologies.
• Assisted struggling students to maintain progress levels by designing individualized lesson plans focused on areas for improvement.
• Coordinated special education students and teacher assistant schedules with master schedule.
• Encouraged students to take ownership of learning by providing choices.
• Developed Individual Education Plans for students with special needs.
• Implemented behavior modification techniques to improve student social and academic performance.
• Utilized technology to create meaningful lessons that engage students.
• Designed individual education plans to encourage student growth according to different learning abilities and needs.
• Applied proven strategies to improve students' sensory- and perceptual-motor skills.
• Developed and implemented behavior management plans to improve student behavior.
• Planned daily activities to keep students engaged and on track with learning goals.
• Provided emotional support to students and families.
• Helped students with special needs integrate into general classroom environments by advocating for individual requirements and helping teachers solve problems.
• Worked closely with parents and guardians to address students' issues on multiple fronts.
• Conducted assessments of students to determine individual needs.
• Promoted memory, cognition and language development with hands-on activities and individualized instruction.
• Facilitated small group instruction to address individual learning needs.
• Improved behavior by modeling positive choices and teaching socially-acceptable options.
• Collaborated with other educators to develop instructional strategies.
• Coordinated regular meetings to share and analyze student performance data and success plans with colleagues and parents.
• Monitored student performance to evaluate effectiveness of instructional strategies.
• Maintained accurate records of student progress and attendance.
• My case load was 12 to 20 students,wjo were with me all day except for art, P.E etc

Taught severely emotional disturbed students all main subjects. Students were physical , threw chairs, called teacher and students out of name. Patting down for guns was a regular thing. My main job was to teach as well as stopping them from leaving the classroom and disturbing other classes. Olfrt 26-33 year old students hand punched ,knocked out cold, a gun held to my head and a chair thrown which resulted in a mild concussion., mothered the children, forgave and moved on. I retired from

DC Public schools and went on to teach at Fort Meade in Anne Arundle county at Fort Meade Air Force Base. where I was employed .remained for 2 years before moving to Prince George County Public School, where I I taught at Suitland Senior High School where I retired at 60.e and moved to Miami Florida. I am seeking a substitute position near 33141. As a retired teacher I would like to "sub" 2 or 3 days a week JHS or HS