Beth Kizer Email & Phone Number

Indianapolis, Indiana

Work experience coordinator and transition teacher. I have a caseload of upperclassman, those near exiting high school. I assist with work experience placement. I have placed students in on campus jobs, community jobs, volunteer and paid employment. I also assist students in getting an Indy Go Open Door bus pass and train students in utilizing public transportation. In addition, I teach a course on pre-employment and job readiness skills. Instructional topics include, but are not limited to, personal information, strength and weakness assessments, interest inventories, completing applications and resumes, interviewing, transitioning to community from high school, soft and hard skills, social skills, advocating, self determination and effective communication.

1801 E. 86Th St., Indianapolis, In

Starting the 2016-17 school year I have had the privilege to implement and operate North Central's transition and work experience program for young adults in special education. Classes taught*Language Arts- this course was for students with approximately K-3 grade reading, writing skills. Writing journals, reading, comprehension and grammar drills were a part of this class.*Life Skills- this course was mainly for non-reader and non-writers. Calendar and weather activities were daily lessons. This class discussed information related to daily living skills and trained appropriate social skills for a variety of situations.Collaboration with General Education*Created modified assignments, tests, and quizzes for an entire Health course that could be implemented alongside the regular curriculum.*Created modified assignments, tests and labs for the majority of Nutrition and Advanced Nutrition general education curriculum.Classroom Duties*Organizing student, instructional assistant, and peer helper schedules, implementing support for students in all school environments and transportation.*Maintaining files and IEPs.*Communicating with families and build positive relationships.*Monitoring behavior and putting behavior plans in place.*Making instructional material, setting up student’s switches and AAC/communication devices.*Collaborate with teachers, SLP, OT, PT, district Autism Consultant, school deans and other adult staff on behalf of students.*Developed in-school job tasks.*Daily care of students including hygiene, positioning/physical therapies and tube-feeding.*Collaboration with outside agencies such as behavior consultants, Easter Seals Crossroads, Noble of Indiana, Open Door, Vocational Rehabilitation, music therapist, etc.*Worked with many facets of student Functional Behavior Assessments and Behavior Intervention Plans.*Data collection and analysis

*Participated on the School Improvement Committee, Principal’s Cabinet*Led activities in AVID*Assisted with organization for Back-to-School Night, Open House, 8th Grade Curriculum Night, and Top 100*Attended School Board Meetings, Principal Cabinet meeting*Supervised for sporting and student-led events*Participated in the district-wide creation for teacher evaluation

*Communicated and relayed information, time and dates to families from club sponsor.*Volunteer to supervise students.*Help facilitate reltionships and communication between students.

*Make and distribute letters home to communicate w/ families of students with special needs for each event in a timely manner*Double check that officers advertised for event*Ensure proposals into principal's cabinet if off-campus, fund-raising or waived fees*Secure enough materials for the event (supplies, food, equipment-renting a/v, tvs, etc) room is available and reserved, set-up is organized, copies for flyers to post, supervision at each event, handle any medical or other emergencies for events, submit incident reports to BB if an emergency happens at an event*Be responsible for medical information, emergency contact information of students in attendance to events (especially for those students with special needs)*Responding to e-mails from parents or other about questions, problems with friendship pairs*Check that requirements for friendships are being met (pairs are submitting monthly reports on-line, mid-year report to BB office, end of year report to BB office, and monthly chapter/officer meetings)*Communicating with Program Advisor at BB office to make sure things are running smoothly*Help make sure we have the $300 needed to send a student to the conference (which also allows us to have a NC chapter)*Be responsible for creating one event that is charitable*At the beginning of the year -hold call out meeting -hold a week or two of interview sessions after school -be responsible for students with disabilities that they are getting help signing up on-line and their application submitted -distribute user names and passwords to students who are previous members -recruit to families (via email or phone call) if previous participants are not signed up*Communicate regularly with parent liaison, officers and sponsors

Participated in sharing ideas, concerns, and gathering information about Best Buddies as an organization.

Managed tasks within the Special Education Alternative Curriculum Professional Learning Community including planning topics to review, dicuss, sending out agendas and notes.

Masters, Educational Leadership

Bs, Special Education

K-12 Mild and Severe