CATHERINE ACHA
Adelaide,SA
Summary
Organised and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Hardworking and passionate with strong organizational skills eager to secure a position as a Developmental Educator/Positive Behaviour Support Practitioner . To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, and problem-solving skills.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Special Needs Teacher/Intervention Teacher/Teacher
Kilkenny Primary School
01.2011 - Current
- Provided crisis intervention in response to emergencies, employing existing trust, and rapport to deescalate situations.
- Delivered personalized educational, behavioural, and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.
- Assisted teachers with classroom management and document coordination to maintain positive learning environment.
- Documented student behaviours, interventions, and outcomes to enable lead teacher to address pertinent issues.
- Developed and implemented classroom routines to address varying student needs.
- Set up visual aids, equipment, and classroom displays to support teacher's lesson delivery.
- Prepared instructional materials for group and one-on-one use to comply with established curriculum.
- Maintained inclusive learning environment to enable students to gain maximum benefit from lessons.
- Evaluated and revised lesson plans and course content to achieve student-centred learning.
- Cultivated connections and strong student rapport to foster classroom engagement, in addition to recording student progress to inform parents and school administration.
- Delivered effective and differentiated classroom instruction to range of neurodiverse students.
- 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.
- Instructed students with physical and cognitive disabilities.
- Led activities that developed students' physical, emotional, and social growth.
- Redirected students using Positive Behaviour Support (PBS).
- Encouraged students to take ownership of learning by providing choices.
- Coordinated special education students and teacher assistant schedules with master schedule.
- Evaluated and revised lesson plans and course content to achieve student-centred learning.
Special Needs Teacher
Queens Park Special School
01.2001 - 12.2010
- Provided crisis intervention in response to emergencies, employing existing trust, and rapport to deescalate situations.
- Delivered personalized educational, behavioural, and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.
- Assisted teachers with classroom management and document coordination to maintain positive learning environment.
- Monitored student classroom and outdoors activities to promote student safety.
- Documented student behaviours, interventions, and outcomes to enable lead teacher to address pertinent issues.
- Set up visual aids, equipment, and classroom displays to support teacher's lesson delivery.
- Developed and implemented classroom routines to address varying student needs.
- Prepared instructional materials for group and one-on-one use to comply with established curriculum.
- Maintained inclusive learning environment to enable students to gain maximum benefit from lessons.
- Taught multiple subjects to students with intellectual or emotional disabilities.
- Evaluated and revised lesson plans and course content to achieve student-centered learning.
- Supported other teachers to use IT and communication.
- Created and managed IEPs to define student learning objectives and educational strategies, in addition to applying instructional knowledge and methods to support goals.
- Modified general education curriculum for special-needs students using various instructional techniques and technologies.
- Cultivated connections and strong student rapport to foster classroom engagement, in addition to recording student progress to inform parents and school administration.
- Delivered effective and differentiated classroom instruction to range of neurodiverse students.
- 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.
- Instructed students with physical and cognitive disabilities.
- Led activities that developed students' physical, emotional, and social growth.
- Redirected students using Positive Behaviour Support (PBS).
- Worked with students with moderate to severe autism to increase life skills.
- Encouraged students to take ownership of learning by providing choices.
- Coordinated special education students and teacher assistant schedules with master schedule.
- Provided life skills programming for students with moderate to severe autism.
- Delivered personalized educational, behavioral, and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes
- Provided crisis intervention in response to emergencies, employing existing trust, and rapport to deescalate situations
- Assisted teachers with classroom management and document coordination to maintain positive learning environment
Education
Post Graduate Certificate - Learning Difficulties And Disabilities
Birmingham University
Birmingham, UK12.2008
Batchelor of Education (Hons) - Education
South Bank University
London, UK07.1996
Skills
- Multidisciplinary Collaboration
- Professional Relationships
- Teamwork and Positive Attitude
- Complex Problem-Solving
- Autism and Spectrum Disorders
- Cognitive Disabilities Knowledge
- Positive Behaviour Support
- Behaviour Intervention Plans
- Development of Social Skills
- Positive Learning Environment
- Social and Academic Development
- Parent and Guardian Communication
- Assessment Administration
- Evidence-Based Assessment
- Student Records Management
Accomplishments
- Trained fellow teachers on the procedures for completing Individual Education Plans.
- Achieved obtaining funding for support for a student through effectively collating data, identifying needs and training support staff to implement strategies required to access and be successful in achieving their goals.
Certification
- Three Pillars of Transforming Care
- Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Training
- Parenting with PACE
- Foster Care: Connection before correction
- Building Cultural Understanding
- Neo Natal Abstinence Syndrome
- Attachment and Trauma
- Safe Environments for Children and Young People
- Understanding the Functions of Behaviour
- Executive Functioning in children
- Improving outcomes for all through inclusive approaches
- Understanding DisAbility in CALD communities
- Responding to Abuse and Neglect in Education
Interests
I love dancing and find it a great way to have fun and socialise whilst connecting with my latino roots. I discovered hot yoga through a friend and find that it's a great way to release your cares of the da
Additional Information
As a person from a culturally diverse background and personal experience of family members living with a disability. I am passionate to advocate and empower individuals and their families to live and participate in and achieve their life goals and aspirations.
As a long term Foster Carer of a child with a disability, and CALD background, I have experience in advocating, collaborating, negotiating with other professionals across multidisciplined to achieve the best outcomes. Also have supported other families and individuals to access and understand the processes involved in obtaining diagnosis, obtaining appropriate intervention though therapies using their NDIS plan, supporting plan review and ensuring all appropriate reports are available. I have good knowledge of NDIS and plan coordination, having facilitated the process and also undertaken an Intensive Support Coordination Course through DSC.
I am willing to undertake necessary training to embark on my journey as a Developmental Educator/Positive Behaviour Practitioner.
Timeline
Special Needs Teacher/Intervention Teacher/Teacher
Kilkenny Primary School
01.2011 - Current
Special Needs Teacher
Queens Park Special School
01.2001 - 12.2010
Post Graduate Certificate - Learning Difficulties And Disabilities
Birmingham University
Batchelor of Education (Hons) - Education
South Bank University
- Three Pillars of Transforming Care
- Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Training
- Parenting with PACE
- Foster Care: Connection before correction
- Building Cultural Understanding
- Neo Natal Abstinence Syndrome
- Attachment and Trauma
- Safe Environments for Children and Young People
- Understanding the Functions of Behaviour
- Executive Functioning in children
- Improving outcomes for all through inclusive approaches
- Understanding DisAbility in CALD communities
- Responding to Abuse and Neglect in Education
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