Minda Glynn Email & Phone Number

Berkeley, Ca, Us

Oakland, California, United States

Nyc

Prepare and Deliver Online and In-Person graduate level courses: --Introduction to Special Education--Teaching Students with Special Needs in Inclusive Settings-- Supervised On-the-Job PracticumTopics include -- Historical and legal perspectives in Special Education; -- Changing attitudes toward disability; -- Special Education in practice, including legal mandates, the IEP, and school-related responsibilities; -- Disability classifications, needs, and interventions; -- Overview of learning theory as relates to special needs populations;-- Co-teaching methods and strategies;-- Differentiation and UDLExperience teaching online, in person, and hybrid coursesInteractive approach utilizing social learning and model teaching methods in addition to traditional lecture with audio and visual components.

Thornwood, Ny

Middle School English and Social Studies TeacherCertified to teach special education and general education grades 1-9.-- Use research-based best practices to improve reading comprehension by increasing connection and enjoyment. -- Scaffold writing process with gradual release to nurture success. -- Significant student growth consistently achieved, as measured through normative data. -- Develop warm class culture with universal design and a print-rich classroom to create an inclusive environment for learning.-- Structured multi-sensory reading intervention: - Wilson-trained to provide Tier-2 reading intervention screening and instruction. - Orton-Gillingham-trained to provide intensive reading instruction. - Deliver and report on a battery of encoding and decoding assessments to target specific reading and writing struggles.Rated highly effective.

Mott Hall V, Bronx, Ny

Certified to teach special education and general education grades 1-9.Courses planned and taught English Language Arts, Remedial Reading, Writing Tutorial, Book Club, Foundations of Art, Autobiography, and Physical and Earth Science; grades 6-8. Settings Self-Contained, Integrated Co-Teaching, SETSS, and General EducationUnit planning Common Core aligned; use of data to inform planning; UBD; combination of Universal Design,differentiation, and scaffolds to address learning needs; some experience with Expeditionary Learning. Multi-sensory approach with multiple modalities offered to reach children with various strengths. Intensive scaffolding and differentiation of process and product to nurture success. Use of data to inform practice. Orton-Gillingham trained to provide remedial reading and writing to students with learning disabilities.RTI Coordinator (coordinate groupings based on need; provide support for research based instruction to remediate ELA foundation skills).IEP Coordinator (use SESIS, write IEPs, facilitate meetings with parents and staff); Book Club Coordinator (organize leveled groupings, maintain data, train staff in reading assessment, and oversee book club curriculum for the entire middle school); Culture Day Planning Committee Member; Poetry Night Planning Committee Member

Art Therapist working with children, adolescents, and families, at a Residential Treatment Facility and Domestic Violence shelter

Ms, Special Education

Ma, Art Therapy

Activities and Societies: Chair: Art Therapy Student Union Organizer: Art Therapy Art Exhibit

Ba, Psychology, Studio Art; With Art History Minor

Activities and Societies: Editor-in-Chief: Journal of the ArtsArtistic Director: COD Student Theatre GroupMagna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.