Detail orientated educational professional with a passion for psychology
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I am an 2022 graduate from the UofA and currently taking a masters of Special Education and Educational Psychology from the University of Saskatchewan. Through my education and career, I have had the opportunity to work with students in grades pre-K-9. Prior to attending the U of A, I was privileged to spend three weeks in Guatemala working in a school. I believe all children can be successful learners and I love engaging each child in their unique learning styles.
Currently, I am working in a special education classroom with students ages 6-13, all of whom are living in a specialized group care treatment home. Through my work, I have the opportunity to work with children with, but not limited to, FASD, ODD, autism, ADHD, PTSD, language delays, learning disabilities and cognitive delays. Specializing in English, Social Studies, Math, Health and Gym; all lessons are modified and adapted to meet the specialized programs of each child.
Working in this environment has shaped classroom management skills and de-escalation strategies.
I am a highly innovative and resourceful educational professional; who quickly identifies and resolves challenges. I work well both independently and in a team atmosphere. Within my degree I have completed an introduction to American Sign Language course, therefore, conversing with children who communicate primarily through ASL is possible. Personally, I believe that every child should have the opportunity to learn in the format, language and setting that suits their needs best.
010/2022 – CURRENT
SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER, UNLIMITED POTENTIAL
● Facilitating a safe environment for high risk children and youth, who need extra support in completing their education.
● Administering the following provincial mandated screeners for kindergarten to grade four:
Phonological Awareness Screening Tests (PAST), Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN), Letter
Name-Sound (LeNS), Castles & Coltheart 3 (CC3), Provincial Numeracy Screening Assessment
(K-4)
● Creating and maintaining Success in School Plans
● Creating and maintaining Individual Program Plans
● Creating report cards three times a year
● Advocating for students needs
● Providing critical insight during Red Flag meetings for students● Planning and executing educational field trips
● Conducting fire drills
● De-Escalating potentially violent situations to work towards the safest and most beneficial course of action to express emotions
● Facilitating community circles to encourage self identifying emotions, goals and personal supports
● Managing multi-leveled/ grade classrooms to support all education levels or needs
● Working with group homes, case workers and social workers to support students in active addiction in creating boundaries and excel in course work
● Daily notes on each students progress or notes of concern
● Working as a team with other teachers, educational assistants and casual support workers
● Administering prescribed medications to students
● Escorting and restraining clients when physical threat occurs
● Providing first aid to clients
● Creating individual lessons for twelve students at different grade levels
● Adapting the program of studies for modified learning in specialized cases
● Supporting students to build confidence in advancing towards grade level curriculum
● Facilitating team building exercises to encourage relationship building
● Writing Critical Incident Reports
● Contacting legal guardians and/or case workers daily to report on student progress
03/2022 - 09-2022
CASUAL SCHOOL SUPPORT WORKER, MPOWR
● Facilitating a safe environment for high risk children and youth, who need extra support in completing their education.
● De Escalating potentially violent situations to work towards the safest and most beneficial course of action to express emotions
● Facilitating community circles to encourage self identifying emotions, goals and personal supports
● Managing multi-leveled/ grade classrooms to support all education levels or needs
● Working with group homes, case workers and social workers to support students in active addiction in creating boundaries and excel in course work
● Daily notes on each students progress or notes of concern
● Working as a team with other teachers, educational assistants and casual support workers
● Administering prescribed medications to students
01/2020 – 05/2022
INTAKES COORDINATOR AND RECEPTIONIST, REVELATION COUNSELING Responsibilities included:
● Working directly with clients to gather personal information
● Booking clients in directly with practitioners and assisting with paperwork
● Working with insurance companies to set up billing
● Keeping confidentiality at all times
● Updating client informational chart and booking information
● Setting up appointments for more than five different counselors at one time
● Keeping office well stocked and clean for clients and practitioner use
● Keeping office Covid-19 forms up to date
● Informing clients of all appointment changes or if possible Covid-19 exposure
● Practicing and enforcing Alberta Health Guidelines for Covid-19
09/2024 – CURRENT
MASTERS OF Special Education and Educational Psychology, UNIVERSITY OF
Currently obtaining, expected to complete winter of 2028
09/2022 – 09/2024
MASTERS OF Educational Leadership, ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY
Incomplete, transferred to UofS. Courses obtained:
● MDDE 601 Introduction to distance education and training
● MDDE 603 Foundations of instructional design
● MDDE 605 Leadership and management open, digital and distance education
● MDDE 620 Technology in education and training
ELEMENTARY EDUCATION GENERALIST DEGREE, UOFA
Generalist degree in elementary education at the University of Alberta.
● Worked directly with Uschool at the University of Alberta, to allow students from Edmonton and surrounding areas to explore university as an option for after high school.
● Within kinesiology 293, I had the privilege to guide two-hour gym classes covering different
DAAP criteria for children with and without disabilities.
● In the winter of 2020 I was supposed to complete my IFX in brookwood elementary school.
However, Covid-19 shut down schools; therefore I have completed the course equivalent in TQS modules.
● Winter of 2021 I completed a brief practicum with Edmonton Catholic In St. Justin's 100 voices program. In which I was responsible for creating a positive classroom environment that allowed for growth in phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, numerical competencies and understanding emotions.
Throughout this practicum I worked with children that had educational concerns such as behavioral challenges, learning challenges, delayed speech/comprehension, ELL or were on the autism spectrum. This was a great learning experience in which I flourished.
● Fall of 2021 I completed AFX with the Parkland School Division in Millgrove elementary school. Working with grade 3’s of all learning needs. In particular I did a lot of work with a child that was cognitively low, another with Oppositional Defiant Disorder and another which had been flagged as a flight risk.
I was responsible for creating and facilitating all subjects and having adaptations for the students who had IPP’s in the classroom. I received amazing feedback from school officials and completed the practicum with a lot of real world experience.
● American sign language 111
● Educational psychology 454 (teaching students with challenging behaviors)
