Wendi Utterback
Jonesborough,TN
Summary
Compassionate Special Educator offering wealth of experience in small group instruction with children of diverse ages. Passionate about education with desire to work with students and parents across disabilities and levels. Understands importance of early intervention and parent education. Vast experience in writing and planning IEPs and determining student needs.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
Work History
Special Education Interventionist
Washington County Schools
Jonesborough, TN
08.2012 - Current
- Maintain positive attitude and affirmatively communicate with each student and family.
- Support gen ed teachers in development of individual learning strategies and differentiation for students with IEPs.
- Offer student support through inclusion, with special accommodations, extra assistance, and benchmark/ progress monitoring assessments.
- Collaborate with other teacher to create customized classroom environment integral to students' needs.
- Offer individualized intervention strategies and work with students to grow skills and improve deficit areas, both academic and pre-vocational.
- Meet with parents and school team to develop individualized education program for students with special needs.
- Mentor new and newly hired teachers.
- Instruct student and develop activities to implement goals for remediation of deficiencies and drive student success.
- Observe students' performance and record relevant data to assess progress.
- Communicate with teachers and other district personnel to assist in evaluation/re-evaluation progress and implementing IEP goals.
Interim Pre-K Special Education Teacher
Washington County Schools
Jonesborough, TN
01.2012 - 04.2022
- Managed IEPs to define student learning objectives and educational strategies, in addition to applying instructional knowledge and methods to support goals.
- Cultivated connections with student to foster classroom engagement, in addition to recording student progress.
- Taught students across multiple classifications and degrees of special needs.
- Assisted struggling students to maintain progress levels by designing individualized lesson plans focused on areas for improvement.
- Taught multiple subjects to students with intellectual or emotional disabilities.
- Led activities that developed students' physical, emotional and social growth.
Special Education Instructional Assistant
Washington County Schools
Jonesborough, TN
10.2008 - 08.2012
- Supported student learning objectives through personalized and small group assistance in gen ed setting and special education setting.
- Kept classrooms clean, neat and orderly for student and classroom efficiency.
- Provided support to help students with special needs learn and grow during inclusion.
- Collated classroom materials to help teachers prepare for daily instruction and activities.
- Oversaw students in classroom and common areas to monitor, enforce rules and support lead teacher.
- Assessed student assignments to check quality and completeness before submission for grading.
- Maintained positive attitude and affirmatively communicated with each student.
- Offered student support through special accommodations, extra assistance and assessments.
- Helped special education teacher determine specific needs for individuals with exceptional needs.
- Aided special education teacher in delivering important services for individuals with exceptionalities.
Pre-School Teacher
Self
Warsaw, IL
05.2000 - 03.2005
- Educated students in foundational concepts such as shapes, numbers and letters.
- Gave one-on-one attention to children while maintaining overall focus on entire group.
- Sanitized toys and play equipment each day to maintain safety and cleanliness.
- Monitored students' academic, social and emotional progress and recorded in individual files.
- Allowed for ample outdoor discovery time in schedule each day.
Reading Specialist
Hancock County Schools
Warsaw/Hamilton, IL
08.1999 - 05.2000
- Wrote and delivered customized instruction to individual students and groups.
- Performed assessments and analyzed results to spot students in need of further help.
- Developed goals and realistic plans for achieving each target.
- Built positive and productive relationships with teachers to drive improvements to reading programs.
- Used approaches such as Reading Recovery Methods to achieve dramatic results with students.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Education of Individuals in Elementary Special Education Programs
Quincy University
Quincy, IL12.2018
Skills
- Autism and spectrum disorders experience and training
- Student Teacher Supervision (Clemmer College certified)
- Mentor/mentee training and implementation
- Instructional support in gen ed inclusion setting
- Behavior improvement plan development and implementation
- Classroom management experience
- Social development and integration in gen ed setting
- Lesson plan implementation for multiple grade levels, pre-k through 8th
- Teacher Support for students with disabilities
- Interdisciplinary team collaboration
- Verbal and written communication
- Activity Planning and school improvement team
- Smartboard experience
- Teaching and instruction for self contained and inclusion settings
- Skills strategies for reading intervention and behavior supports
- Parental interaction; IEP meetings and virtual school
- Documentation of student performance
- IEP planning and compliance
- Orton Gillingham (imse) certified
Timeline
Special Education Interventionist
Washington County Schools
08.2012 - Current
Interim Pre-K Special Education Teacher
Washington County Schools
01.2012 - 04.2022
Special Education Instructional Assistant
Washington County Schools
10.2008 - 08.2012
Pre-School Teacher
Self
05.2000 - 03.2005
Reading Specialist
Hancock County Schools
08.1999 - 05.2000
Bachelor of Science - Education of Individuals in Elementary Special Education Programs
Quincy University
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