Rachael Holt
Carlisle,Cumbria
Summary
Enthusiastic and learning-oriented teaching professional devoted to helping students and supporting teachers. Talents include behaviour management, differentiation.
Focused on maintaining positive learning environment to promote student growth and development.
Takes on challenging new role harnessing interpersonal skills, collaboration and problem-solving. Driven to deliver high-quality service and consistent results.
Enthusiastic teaching assistant with 30 years of experience. Secures success through hard work, working well as a team and substantial SEN knowledge, achieving positive results with students.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior teaching assistant
St John Henry Newman Catholic School
Carlisle, Cumbria
09.2005 - Current
- Encouraged students to work together to complete projects and solve problems.
- Observed children during social interactions and encouraged positive choices for minimising and resolving conflicts.
- Offered students personalised support during in-class activities and projects.
- Delivered additional learning support opportunities to small student groups, enabling improved academic confidence.
- Supported teachers in managing challenging student behaviour, conducting progress meetings to provide feedback and recommend appropriate action.
- Taught students important learning, study and behaviour management skills for academic success.
- Maximised student engagement and receptive learning by educating students using individualised instructional approaches.
- Enabled accurate assessment of student progress, recording student performance data.
Childcare assistant
Vail ski resort
Vail, Colorado
11.2004 - 05.2005
- Helped children with personal hygiene needs.
- Fed meals , changed diapers and assisted children to use toilet.
- Developed positive, trusting relationships with groups of young children.
- Engaged children in stimulating learning-based activities and games.
- Supported children's development with learning of winter activities.
- Created caring bonds with children for comfort and safety within the ski school.
- Supervised daily activities, lunch break and rest time to monitor schedule.
- Communicated daily observations with guardians, maintaining detailed development records.
Senior teaching assistant
James Rennie Special School
Carlisle, Cumbria
09.1994 - 07.2002
- Maintained child safety, security and good behaviour during classroom and outdoor activities.
- Encouraged students to work together to complete projects and solve problems.
- Observed children during social interactions and encouraged positive choices for minimising and resolving conflicts.
- Offered students personalised support during in-class activities and projects.
- Helped teachers with lesson plan development, class preparation and student mentoring, improving overall department attainment.
- Attended to younger children's basic physical needs and assisted in development of personal skills.
- Planned and arranged classrooms to promote learning and student achievement.
- Taught students important learning, study and behaviour management skills for academic success.
- Arranged recreational spaces and equipment to encourage physical activity.
- Partnered with teachers to plan and execute lessons following school curriculum, objectives and philosophies.
- Maximised student engagement and receptive learning by educating students using individualised instructional approaches.
- Enabled accurate assessment of student progress, recording student performance.
- Created individualized education plans that helped students with physical disabilities achieve significant improvements in independent capabilities. Providing physiotherapy.
- Constantly met learning and development goals by building trust and rapport with children.
- Improved student understanding of social interaction by researching and incorporating supportive technology, such as communication aids and PECS and the delivery of speech therapy.
Education
Higher National Diploma - NNEB- Childcare
Carlisle College
Carlisle, Cumbria 09.1992 - 07.1994
GCSEs -
Caldew School
Carlisle 09.1987 - 07.1992
Skills
- Safeguarding and supervision
- Targeted intervention methods
- Differentiated Instruction
- Positive attitude
- Small group instruction
- Classroom management
- Secondary education
- Behaviour modelling
- Behaviour management
- ELSA training
- Autism training
- Intervention planning and delivery
- Lesson implementation
- Group and individual instruction
- Early childhood education
- Adaptable
- In-class SEND support
- SEN code of practice
- Student engagement and assessment
Timeline
Senior teaching assistant
St John Henry Newman Catholic School
09.2005 - Current
Childcare assistant
Vail ski resort
11.2004 - 05.2005
Senior teaching assistant
James Rennie Special School
09.1994 - 07.2002
Higher National Diploma - NNEB- Childcare
Carlisle College
09.1992 - 07.1994
GCSEs -
Caldew School
09.1987 - 07.1992
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