ASEEL NASEEM ODEH AL-NABER
Special Needs Educator
Riyadh
Summary
- Versatile Special Education Teacher with focus on individual student needs across academia and emotional development
- Empathetic and accommodating in design and implementation of hands-on lessons, catering to diverse learning abilities.
- Proficient in employing constant communication, patience and positive reinforcement in team efforts to deliver exceptional educational tools, fostering academic achievement.
- Equipped with positive attitude and patience vital to teaching children with special needs. Extensive experience creating innovative lesson plans and comfortable learning environments.
- Successful at providing classroom and emotional structure for special needs children required to flourish in academic setting.
- Coordinates well with classroom teachers with supportive strategies for behavior management and lesson accommodations for students.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Special Education Teacher/Shadow teacher
Technological Innovations for Middle East Education
Riyadh
11.2019 - Current
- Created and managed IEP to define student learning objectives and educational strategies, in addition to applying instructional knowledge and methods to support goals.
- Assisted struggling student to maintain progress levels by designing individualized lesson plans focused on areas for improvement.
- Organized instruction material, constructed bulletin boards and set up work areas.
- Taught multiple subjects to student with intellectual or emotional disabilities.
- Partnered with standard education teachers from across academic departments.
- Coordinated special education student and teacher assistant schedules with master schedule.
- Cultivated connections and strong student rapport to foster classroom engagement, in addition to recording student progress to inform parents and school administration.
- Taught reading, language arts and social sciences in self-contained ED and LD classroom.
- Designed and implemented point system to encourage positive behavior.
- Modified general education curriculum for special-needs students using various instructional techniques and technologies.
Special Education Teacher (Arabic, Math and English Teacher
AL-Masar Child Development Services
05.2016 - 08.2019
- Masar Child Development Center/ I Learn), Amman.
- Prepared and implemented lesson plans covering required course topics.
- Helped students develop important learning skills and good study habits useful in trade school or college education.
- Built learning and citizenship skills to help with personal growth in addition to increasing academic knowledge.
- Coordinated theme days for classes to encourage interest in reading, resulting in significant increase in reading scores.
- Explored and implemented innovative use of technology in language education.
- Consulted with teachers in other disciplines to identify and adopt successful instructional strategies.
- Utilized multimedia strategies and technology to convey information in fresh and interesting ways.
- Worked with administrators on behavioral issues to support needs of students.
- Completed in-service and additional training to maintain professional growth.
- Taught students across multiple classifications and degrees of special needs.
- Modified general education curriculum for special-needs students using various instructional techniques and technologies.
- Provided life skills programming for students with moderate to severe autism.
- Taught multiple subjects to students with intellectual or emotional disabilities.
- Created and managed IEPs to define student learning objectives and educational strategies, in addition to applying instructional knowledge and methods to support goals.
- Employed variety of instructional techniques and media to meet needs and capabilities of assigned dyslexic students.
- Conducted ongoing assessments of student achievement through formal and informal testing.
- Set achievable and challenging goals for individualized education plans for dyslexic students.
- Learned new skills and applied to daily tasks to improve efficiency and productivity.
- Partnered with standard education teachers from across academic departments.
- Taught reading, language arts and social sciences in self-contained ED and LD classroom.
- Worked with students with moderate to severe autism to increase life skills.
Arabic Teacher
Adventist School
Amman
10.2015 - 04.2016
- Employed diverse teaching approaches to help students of all abilities understand material.
- Organized detailed list of resources to help students go beyond classroom environments and delve into topics of interest.
- Facilitated positive learning environment by using enthusiastic and energetic instructional strategies and consistent classroom management.
- Prepared and administered grade-specific tests and examinations regulated by school district to monitor students' growth and to report progress to parents.
- Created and presented clever lessons to engage students and focus on core subjects necessary for personal and academic growth.
- Met and exceeded class-wide achievement and proficiency standards as established by state testing departments.
- Developed positive rapport with students of various and diverse backgrounds.
Education
Bachelor’s - Translation
Jerash University
Jordan 09.2011 - 09.2015
Skills
Special education experience
Special education curriculum
IEP specialist
Student records management
Child development
Lesson Planning
Differentiated instruction
Critical Thinking
Active Listening
Learning difficulties experience
Strategic learning solutions
E-learning programs
Interactive learning strategies
Practical Learning
Individualized Education Plans (IEP)
Analysis and critical thinking
Creative thinking
Strategic thinking skills
Attention to Detail
Problem-Solving
Organization and Time Management
Additional Information
- Seeing Stars Fluency & Reading Program (Linda Mood -Bell)
- Phonic Reading Lessons (PRL) (a two-volume reading program with an easy-to-use, systematic method of teaching reading to individuals who have failed to learn to read by typical classroom approaches. The program develops decoding skills, sight word fluency and sound-symbol associations in spelling)
- Read Naturally Program (a supplemental reading program that aims to improve reading fluency, accuracy, and comprehension)
- Alpha to Omega Program (phonics- based course)
- Visualizing and Verbalizing Program for Cognitive Development, Comprehension and Thinking
- On Cloud Nine Math Program (visualizing and verbalizing for Math)
- Touch Math Program (a multisensory math program that helps to make math concepts easier and more accessible for students with different learning styles or learning difficulties. The approach uses auditory, visual, and tactile strategies for understanding numbers and operations)
- Touch Type (a program which teaches typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys—specifically, a touch typist will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory)
- Edmark Time Telling program (teaches the basics required to read an analog or digital clock and to say and write the correct time. This system carefully sequences time-telling skills so that students can master increments of time from the hour to the minute.)
- EduTyping program (a comprehensive K-12 typing curriculum with content at two levels)
- Asmaa Horofi Program (Arabic Program) أسمع حروفي)
Timeline
Special Education Teacher/Shadow teacher
Technological Innovations for Middle East Education
11.2019 - Current
Special Education Teacher (Arabic, Math and English Teacher
AL-Masar Child Development Services
05.2016 - 08.2019
Arabic Teacher
Adventist School
10.2015 - 04.2016
Bachelor’s - Translation
Jerash University
09.2011 - 09.2015