Danielle Kruger Email & Phone Number

Bronx

* Prepare and implement lessons for a preschool special education class of 12 three to five year old students, using the New York State Prekindergarten Foundation for the Common Core and Teaching Strategies. Align lesson plans according to student’s IEP goals. *Communicate with parents on a daily basis and provide ongoing feedback to parents on their child’s progress and classroom events and news. Establish positive parent and teacher interactions. *Incorporate hands on and sensory integrated lessons to enhance student’s fine motor skills, self-regulation, visual, tactile, and auditory processing. *Prepare Turning 5 and Educational reports. Participate and attend turning five meetings with parents and special providers to determine the student’s placement for the next school year and current progress of the student. *Evaluate development using Brigance Assessment, teacher observations, and Teaching Strategies checkpoint assessment. *Guide 2 assistants in preparation of materials, small group and 1:1 instruction.*Communicate and collaborate with occupational, speech, and physical therapists on a daily basis about student’s progress and ways to enhance student’s growth and development.

Smithtown, Ny

*Implemented student’s IEP goals. Create students program books by developing curriculum and data sheets for student’s IEP goals and collecting appropriate materials in order to execute the goals. *Communicate with parents on a daily basis establishing positive interactions and communication, and to discuss their child’s progress. *Collect and record student’s behavior and performance data using task analysis, discrete trials, and ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis). *Attend quarterly meetings with parents concerning progress on student’s IEP goals. *Provide proper training for new staff and monitor implementation of student’s programs. *Employed Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) with non-verbal students.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Teacher Education And Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Special Education And Teaching

Associate'S Degree, Education/Teaching Of Individuals In Early Childhood Special Education Programs