Ciara O'Connor

• Effective Communication Skills: Excellent communicator with an appreciation for different communication styles required when working with management, team members and with external stakeholders
• Honest and Reliable: Able to take on tasks with a degree of responsibility due to strong morals and ethics.
• Flexible: Understands the need to remain flexible to support last-minute demands and changes. Comfortable with changing environments and situations. 
• Time Management: Dedicated to effectively prioritising and managing time by allocating tasks, activities and keeping track of them in diaries and daily to-do lists.

For the past three academic years, I have had the privilege of working in Riverstown N.S. as a Special Education Teacher. Teaching in this inclusive, child-centred school has further enhanced my passion for providing children with stimulating and meaningful learning experiences. I have gained invaluable experience that I will most certainly use to inform and to benefit my future teaching.

I greatly appreciated teaching in a school in which working in collaboration with others is to the fore and I thoroughly enjoyed developing positive relationships with the staff and students of Riverstown N.S. I have been working as a Special Education Teacher at many different class levels and it has been a wonderful opportunity for me to deepen my understanding of SEN and to develop a greater sense of confidence and awareness of how to engage with and teach children with SEN. I have worked with children who have special educational needs ranging from ASD to Dyspraxia.

I worked in collaboration with children, parents, relevant members of staff and external professionals to create support plans for each child. I have experience in the administration of assessments such as the Drumcondra Tests of Early Literacy and the Drumcondra Tests of Early Numeracy and The Single Word Test.

Master of Education (Second Class Honours)

Hibernia College Dublin 

Successfully completed 2020.

Bachelor of Early Childhood Education (Second Class Honours) 

University College Cork

Successfully completed 2018.