Yuiko Ames

• Develop data-driven IEPs that are tailored to individual student needs, ensuring their academic success and personal growth.
• Collaborate with general education teachers to equip students with the most appropriate scaffolding to achieve their learning goals for specialized instruction at all secondary school levels of Math.
• Promote a positive learning environment wherein the students feel comfortable advocating for themselves.
• Update and manage IEPs with each student's post-secondary transition goals in mind to best support their learning in academics, careers and life.

Resource teacher

• Developed and maintained IEPs to help promote the students' strengths and build necessary scaffolding to support learning through honoring and preserving Navajo culture at a high school in Ganado, Arizona on a Native American reservation.
• Taught Academic Intervention classes as a resource teacher providing remedial instruction in English Language Arts and Mathematics as well as essential skills for navigating life.
• Worked as a liaison to help connect special-needs students and their families with the outside agencies such as Vocational Rehabilitation.

• Developed and taught "Educational Psychology", "Counseling in School-Settings" and "Psychology of Individuals with Disabilities" as well as research seminars to adult-learners who aspire to earn national accreditation as school teachers and/or social workers.
• Mentored and advised students and the graduates on career paths as well as life courses.
• Served on a variety of committees to help promote institutional policies and practices.
• Conducted academic research for scholarly publications on topics ranging from educational interventions to support cultural minorities in Japan to the utility of collaborative teaching for linking high schools and higher education.

• Built rapport with freshman students through class discussion and academic advisement.
• Developed and taught "Educational Psychology" and "Psychology for Individuals with Disabilities" to adult-learners.
• Maintained up-to-date knowledge of family counseling by attending conferences and workshops.
• Contributed to departmental as well as institutional goals by serving on various committees focused on entrance exams, public relations, and accreditation requirements (i.e. teaching certificate).
• Presented my research findings at scholarly meetings and published those findings .

• Developed coding manual for social science research, coded data transcriptions of parent-child interactions in the home setting, collaborated with fellow researchers to present and publish research papers.