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LAKEWOOD SENIOR LIVING
Summary

Caring, dedicated, compassionate person that loves working with students and adults with disabilities. Reliable and highly motivated with 14 years of experience in the self-contained, resource, and inclusion classrooms. Committed with the ability to work as a team player, as well as independently. Provide feedback to students using positive reinforcement techniques to encourage, motivate and build confidence in students. Provided assistance to students with special needs, including Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Deficit (ADHD), Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Developmental Delay (DD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Specific Learning Disability (SLD), Other Health Impairment (OHI), Visual Impairment (VI), Speech Impairment (SI), Hearing Impaired (HI), Intellectual Disability (ID), Autism (AUT), and Emotional Disability (ED).

Skills
  • Special Education (Inclusion and Self-contained classrooms)
  • Organized
  • Experience with mental illness
  • Emotional support
  • Social support
  • Calm
  • Team player
  • Identify student growth areas
  • Knowledgeable
  • Positive attitude
  • Fluent with Individualized Education Plans (IEP)
  • Behavior Management
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Flexible
  • Patience
  • Classroom management
  • Problem solving
  • Childcare experience
  • Secondary Education
  • Erin's Law and Mandatory Reporting
  • Learning Differences
  • Technology-based strategies
  • Arts and crafts
  • First aid and CPR certified
  • Active listening
  • Multitasking
  • Infection control standards
  • Knowledge of state regulations
  • Health Insurance Portability And Accountability(HIPAA) Compliance
  • Proficient in Quickbooks, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and Smartboard
  • Lesson Plans
  • Fluent with the Practical Assessment Exploration Systems (PAES) Lab
  • Fluent with Zoom
  • Proctor standardized test for students with disabilities with accommodations.
  • Over 66 hours of completed AFIRM Modules
Experience
Gary | Valley, ALLakewood Senior Living04/2020 - Current
  • Assisted 8 residents aged 58-98 with dementia with daily needs, such as laundry, bathing, dressing, and toileting.
  • Engaged with residents and families, providing emotional support and instruction in preparing healthy meals, independent living skills and adaptation to disability or illness.
  • Worked with supervisory medical staff to review cases and improve care.
  • Recorded residents status progress and challenges in logbooks and reports.
  • Helped residents maintain daily living standards by assisting with personal hygiene needs.
  • Trained 3 new staff for employment.
  • Engaged in group activities, such as games, crafts, music, reading, and other activities.
  • Provide physical, mental, and social well-being needs of the residents.
  • Followed care plans, home regulations and ensure safety practices.
  • Performed light housekeeping duties, including cleaning, laundry, bed making, dusting, and meal preparation (with specific dietary needs).
  • Encourage residents to participate in social and recreational activities.
  • Planned and prepared nutritious meals and snacks to meet special client diets such as diabetic, low sodium and high protein.
  • Planned daily activities to allow clients opportunities for light exercise.
  • Provided ongoing compassionate resident care for each client.
  • Built strong and trusting rapport with residents and loved ones.
  • Completed scheduled patient check-ins and progress reports for all clients.
  • Took and recorded resident temperature.
  • Monitored health and well-being of each resident, including any significant health changes.
  • Coordinated with doctors and registered nurses to develop care plans for residents.
  • Recorded client status progress and challenges in logbooks and reports.
  • Transferred patients to and from beds, chairs or wheelchairs using principles of body mechanics and equipment such as gait belts.
Beauregard High School | Opelika, ALParaprofessional08/2008 - Current
  • Served as a paraprofessional within a public high school for grades 9th-12th.
  • Gained experience assisting students with a range of disabilities and learning differences, such as DD, ADD, ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, Cerebral Palsy, and Down Syndrome.
  • Provided disable students with assisting devices, such as Audio players, recorders, writing supports, hydraulic lifts, reading guides, chromebooks, large print books, pencil grips, and wheelchairs.
  • Read all students Individual Educational Plan (IEP) to ensure familiarity with each student needs to become successful.
  • Assist teacher with lesson plans and daily classroom activities.
  • Work collaboratively with speech therapists, physical therapist, and behavior analyst to collect data for improvement.
  • Collaborating and communicating with other special education teachers and general education teachers with regards to academic and behavior issues.
  • Assist/support students with mobility around school campus.
  • Supervise/ proctor curriculum-based testing, such as American Colledge Testing (ACT), ACT Workkeys, Pre-Act, Scantron Performance Series: Reading and Math, Kuder Career Interests Assessment, Casey Life Skills, and Star Reading and Math.
  • Prompt students to be more socialable to their peers.
  • Ensure students to follow school rules as stated in the handbook.
  • Worked with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of materials.
  • Participated in staff meetings, professional development, and attended various in-service meeting to acquire information relative to job functions to support ans maintain an effective educational environment.
  • Provide praise and positive reinforcement for appropriate behavior.
  • Utilize variety of teaching methods, including lectures, technology, group discussions, and role playing.
  • Trained in CPR, First Aid, Behavior Management, and EPI pins.
  • Observed students performances and recorded relevant data to maintain progress.
  • Co-teach lessons under the teachers guidance.
  • Ensure that I meet any applicable federal or state regulations on confidentiality both in and out of school.
  • Assist teachers with paperwork, such as IEP's, Behavior Plans, and aimlines.
  • Assist students with problem solving techniques and conflict resolution.
  • Motive students to be successful in a school setting and on their jobs.
  • Perform health-related procedures, such as feeding, lifting, positioning, and toileting, etc.
  • Assist students in the resource room to help students with tests, make-up work, and/or projects.
  • Assist teachers with distributing and collecting items, such as homework, folders, handouts, and tests.
East Alabama Mental Health | Opelika, ALParaprofessional07/2019 - 03/2020
  • Assist 8 individuals with activities, including completion completion of daily chores, outings, grooming, personal hygiene care, and preparation of meals.
  • Read individuals records and ensure familiarity records and with each individuals social and medical history.
  • Complete fire drills, severe weather alerts, and nightly bedchecks.
  • Ensure that meals are served family style and that appropriate table manners are modeled.
  • Ensure compliance with special diets;
  • Ensure individuals safety,
  • Monitor all individuals physical and mental health.
  • Ensure that all individuals needs are met and maintained.
  • Administer individuals medication prescribed by a physician.
  • Report and document incident and/or problems to a supervisor or an on-call staff.
  • Ensure individuals rights and confidentially.
  • Modeled appropriate social skills.
  • Took and recorded individuals blood pressure, temperature, and glucose.
  • Handled inbound and outbound calls to verify patient appointments.
Lee County Board of Edcation | Beulah, ALParaprofessional08/2007 - 05/2008
Workkeys
  • Served as a paraprofessional within a public elementary school for grades K-6.
  • Gained experience assisting students with a range of disabilities and learning differences, such as DD, ADD, ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, Cerebral Palsy, and Down Syndrome.
  • Provided disable students with assisting devices, such as Audio players, recorders, writing supports, hydraulic lifts, reading guides, chromebooks, large print books, pencil groups, and wheelchairs.
  • Read all students Individual Educational Plan (IEP) to ensure familiarity with each student needs to become successful.
  • Assist teacher with lesson plans and daily classroom activities.
  • Work collaboratively with speech therapists, physical therapist, and behavior analyst to collect data for improvement.
  • Collaborating and communicating with other special education teachers and general education teachers with regards to academic and behavior issues.
  • Assist/support students with mobility around school campus.
  • Supervise/ proctor curriculum-based testing, such as American Colledge Testing (ACT), ACT Workkeys, Pre-Act, Scantron Performance Series: Reading and Math, Kuder Career Interests Assessment, Casey Life Skills, and Star Reading and Math.
  • Prompt students to be more social to their peers.
  • Ensure students to follow school rules as stated in the handbook.
  • Worked with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of materials.
  • Participated in staff meetings, professional development, and attended various in-service meeting to acquire information relative to job functions to support ans maintain an effective educational environment.
  • Provide praise and positive reinforcement for appropriate behavior.
  • Utilize variety of teaching methods, including lectures, technology, group discussions, and role p[laying.
  • Trained in CPR, First Aid, Behavior Management, EPI pins, and medication administration.
  • Observed students performances and recorded relevant data to maintain progress.
  • Co-teach lessons under the teachers guidance.
  • Ensure that I meet any applicable federal or state regulations on confidentiality both in and out of school.
  • Assist teachers with paperwork, such as IEP's, Behavior Plans, and aimlines.
  • Assist students with problem solving techniques and conflict resolution.
  • Motive students to be successful in a school setting and on their jobs.
  • Perform health-related procedures, such as feeding, lifting, positioning, and toileting, etc.
  • Escort/assist students throughout the school.
Education and Training
Beauregard High School | Opelika, ALHigh School Diploma05/1992
Southern Union State Community College | Wadley, ALSome College (No Degree)
Certifications
  • First Aid
  • CPR
  • Autism Focused Intervention Resources and Modules (AFIRM)
  • Cognitive Behavior Intervention
  • Functional Behavior Assessment
  • Reinforcement
  • Task Analysis
  • Introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
  • Antecedent-based Intervention Disorder
  • Differential Reinforcement
  • Behavioral Management
  • Medication Administration Record (MAR)
  • Discrete Trail Training
  • Naturalistic Interventions
  • Social Narratives
  • Social Skills Training
  • Visual Supports
  • Response Interruption and redirection
Community Service

Beauregard Community

Volunteer clean-up / Opelika, Alabama

March 3rd 2019- March 20 2019

  • Assisted with clean-up after an E-4 Tornado struck the Beauregard Community claiming 23 lives.
  • Assisted in given out care packages to displaced families after the tornado.

New Mount Zion Baptist Church

Mentor/ Tuskegee, Alabama

May 25th 2017- April 10th 2020

  • Mentored 6 teenagers from Booker T. Washington High School.
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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • Gary
  • Beauregard High School
  • East Alabama Mental Health
  • Lee County Board of Edcation

School Attended

  • Beauregard High School
  • Southern Union State Community College

Job Titles Held:

  • Lakewood Senior Living
  • Paraprofessional

Degrees

  • High School Diploma
    Some College (No Degree)

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