Urmila Choudhury
Branksome, Poole,UK
Summary
Confident, driven, and passionate professional with extensive experience in providing person centred support and care for individuals within a support role in community support settings, all mainstream, further education and SEND school settings. Skilled at adapting strategies to overcome barriers and ensure all individuals reach their full potential. Experienced in leading drama and therapeutic workshops, I foster engagement, emotional resilience, confidence, and social development, empowering individuals to overcome challenges. Committed to continuous professional development; I am eager to contribute my expertise and transferable for your organisation.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work history
SEND Teacher
Victoria School
Poole
09.2024 - 04.2025
- Company Overview: An all-through SEND school in Poole
- Planning and Delivering Lessons: Tailoring the Curriculum: Design and deliver lessons that are accessible to students with diverse needs, ensuring that each student can engage with the curriculum at an appropriate level
- Adaptive Teaching and Scaffolding: Implement adaptive teaching methods and scaffold learning to meet the varying abilities of students, providing opportunities for success for all
- Resource Adaptation: Modify teaching resources, activities, and assessments to accommodate individual learning styles, particularly for students with complex learning difficulties
- Classroom Management: Promoting Positive Behaviour: Establish and maintain a positive, safe learning environment with clear behaviour expectations, and implement strategies to support students in managing their own behaviour
- Supporting Emotional and Social Development: Guide students in developing social and emotional skills, helping them to work independently and collaboratively, fostering a sense of belonging and community within the classroom
- Assessing and Monitoring Progress: Tracking Progress: Continuously assess both academic and social-emotional development, using data to inform and adapt teaching strategies and to monitor student progress effectively
- Individual Education Plans (IEPs): Collaborate with colleagues to develop, implement, and review IEPs for each student, outlining specific targets and tailored support strategies
- Communication with Parents and Carers: Keep parents and carers informed through regular updates, meetings, and progress reports to ensure transparency and promote collaboration
- Collaboration with Staff and External Professionals: Teamwork: Work closely with teaching assistants, SENCOs, and other professionals (e.g., speech and language therapists, psychologists) to meet the holistic needs of students
- Multi-Disciplinary Support: Partner with external agencies to provide additional support, addressing all aspects of students' academic, health, and welfare needs
- Safeguarding and Wellbeing: Child Protection: Adhere to safeguarding policies and remain vigilant in identifying signs of distress or harm, ensuring the safety and well-being of all students
- Promoting Wellbeing: Create a classroom culture that supports students' emotional wellbeing and resilience, especially for those with additional needs
- Professional Development: Ongoing Training: Commit to continual professional development by attending training sessions, staying current with SEND best practices, and integrating new strategies into teaching
- Reflective Practice: Regularly reflect on your own teaching, seek feedback from peers and supervisors, and make improvements to best meet the evolving needs of your students
- Administrative Duties: Record Keeping: Maintain accurate records of students' progress, attendance, and other administrative tasks, ensuring all required documentation is up to date
- Planning and Reporting: Contribute to school-wide planning, collaborating with colleagues to shape the academic year and providing reports on students' development and progress
Cover Teacher
Avonbourne Boys & Girls Academies
Boscombe
09.2022 - 07.2023
- Provide cover for staff absence, ensuring that students have the best possible learning experience during cover lessons
- Supervise and take attendance of the students in the classroom
- Manage the behaviour of students whilst they are undertaking this work to ensure a constructive environment
- Apply the Academy Behaviour for Learning Policy consistently and fairly from the beginning of the lesson
- Respond to any questions from students and support them through their learning in the classroom
- Establish productive working relationships with students, acting as a role model and setting high expectations
- Promote the inclusion and acceptance of all students within the classroom
- Assist in preparing the learning environment and the utilising the materials that are available
- Collect any completed work after the lesson and return it to the appropriate teacher
Community Support Worker
Autism Unlimited
Bournemouth
03.2022 - 08.2022
- Supporting young people to carry out their daily tasks to take care of themselves, teaching new skills, providing emotional support, and ensuring they are living a fulfilled life
- Spending time with young people such as undertaking activities that interests them, this could be watching films, supporting in cooking and going out on walks to the beach etc
- Enabling and supporting people to live their lives as independently as they can
- Administering medication to the people I support and recording the MAR Chart
- Keeping a daily log of each young person that supported and reporting if there are any changes in circumstance
- Undertaking CPD training
Trainer / Assessor / Sales
Aspire Training Team
Bournemouth
09.2021 - 02.2022
- Support, train and guide learners and develop their personal and professional attitudes, skills and abilities with responsibility to ensure successful completion
- To guide and support learners to gain the required appropriate evidence for their Competency Based Qualifications and Apprenticeship Framework
- To attend school exhibitions and promote our courses to potential learners
- To assess learners and provide feedback demonstrating a clear understanding of minimum requirements for competence to a high standard, using audio and video technology
- To attend regular Progress and Standardisation meetings
- To be the responsible for delivery of our short courses programme
- To teach on the short courses that we offer (subject to your area of expertise)
- To comply with and actively promote the Equality and Diversity Policy
- To comply with and actively promote the Safeguarding Policy and Practices
- Undertake any other relevant duties as specified by your line manager such as enquiries and sales
Primary Teaching Assistant (EYFS)
Isaac Newton Academy
09.2020 - 02.2021
- Support individuals and groups of students to enhance learning and achievement
- Collaborate with teachers, parents, and colleagues to create an effective, inclusive learning environment
- Promote inclusion for students with diverse needs, including those with physical, learning, and behavioural difficulties
- Adapt curriculum and activities to meet the needs of identified students
- Assess individual student needs in collaboration with teachers
- Implement Personalised Learning Plans and create resources for students with additional language, speech, or behavioural needs
- Plan and facilitate small group and one-to-one teaching sessions
- Observe, record, and provide feedback on student progress
- Provide verbal and written feedback to students about their work
- Assist in creating curriculum materials and classroom displays
- Support whole-class teaching and model tasks with teachers
- Assist in behaviour management in and outside the classroom
- Provide community-based opportunities for students when applicable
- Supervise students during play and lunchtime
- Support follow-up on related services (e.g., speech therapy, occupational therapy)
- Maintain confidentiality of student and family information
- Attend regular meetings and training, as required
Equality & Diversity Officer
Mediprospects Ltd
London
10.2017 - 08.2020
- Running training sessions
- Advising about the effects of discrimination on grounds of age, disability, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation
- Raising awareness of equality issues and promoting change
- Preparing/distributing publicity materials and displays
- Interpreting and ensuring compliance with legislation
- Preparing and delivering presentations
- Dealing with issues/incidents relating to equality and diversity
- Referral to and liaising with other relevant organisations (such as community groups) are key features of the work
- Any other reasonable duties which may be required by management from time to time
Teacher / Assessor
Mediprospects Ltd
London
08.2014 - 08.2020
- Planning and delivering the Level 3 Diploma in Children & Young People's Workforce & the Level 3 Diploma Adult Care in a classroom / workshop environment
- Providing academic and emotional support to individual learners
- Conducting one to one support session for all individual learners and managing behaviour
- Supporting Assessment and Quality Assurance team in delivering Vocational qualifications
- Supporting learners with specific learning needs to achieve qualifications
- Supporting learners to develop their portfolio of evidence
- Working with the TAs to improve the learning experience and outcomes for the learners
- Providing CV support, academic references, and job search support to individual learners
- Promoting equality and diversity, health and safety and safeguarding within the learning environment
- Conducting work placement observations for individual learners
- Contributing to learning delivery tasks and processes
- Developing lesson plans and scheme of work
SEN Teaching Assistant
Glenmoor & Winton Academies
Bournemouth
03.2012 - 07.2014
- Assist in the educational and social development of students under the direction and guidance of the Head teacher, INCO and class teachers
- Provide support for individual students (including students with specific learning difficulties or with physical impairments) inside and outside the classroom and to enable them to fully participate in activities
- Plan and deliver sessions for withdrawal intervention groups
- Work with other professionals, such as speech therapists and physiotherapists, as necessary
- Assist class teachers with maintaining student records
- Support students with emotional or behavioural problems and help develop their social skills
- Work with small groups and individuals to provide high quality tutoring
- Support class teachers in photocopying and other tasks to support learning
- Keep diaries of work including a log of the dialogue between teachers and the TA
- Undertake regular safeguarding as required and to promote safeguarding of young people
Communication Support Worker
Speakability (National Charity)
Poole
10.2011 - 03.2012
- A passion and dedication of encouraging adults with Aphasia to develop the confidence to use their communication skills, through social interaction such as creating conversations playing cards and board games
- Leading small groups and using both verbal and written communication skills and encouraging them to express themselves
- Have a good understanding of aphasia and awareness of disability and being able to relate to people in a non-judgemental manner
Communication Support Worker & Mentor
Asian Deaf Women's Association
London
10.2008 - 03.2009
- An interest and commitment to a deaf young woman with complex depression issues
- Acting as a social mentor by giving advice and guidance taking the client into the city to go shopping to improve her health and well-being
- This also was to rebuild the client's self-esteem and confidence
- Translating British Sign Language to Bengali spoken language and vice versa
- Supporting the client's family - by giving advice and guidance, and the ability to maintain confidentiality and building a unique rapport with other clients
- Willingness to learn new skills and motivate others to achieve their potential
- Able to deal with difficult tasks independently and make informed decisions
Student Support Worker
University of Reading
Reading
10.2008 - 01.2009
- Supporting a teenage girl with dyslexia, acting as a social and academic mentor - for example finding an alternative route to improve her university life by advising her to join university societies and sports clubs
- Advising her to keep up to date with assignments and stick to a timetable
- Enthusiasm, a sense of humour and always maintaining a professional character
- This includes a commitment to the team with excellent communication skills, being prepared for challenges and maintaining confidentiality
- Meeting on a regular basis and writing regular progress reports of the client and giving feedback of their progress to the line manager
Education
PGCE - English
University of Reading
09.2023 - 06.2024
QTS -
Bournemouth Bay Teacher Training Partnership
09.2024 -
TEFL - undefined
The TEFL Org
01.2025 - 05.2025
BA (Hons) - Theatre Arts, Education & Deaf Studies
University of Reading
Reading 10.2006 - 06.2009
Level 5 Diploma in Teaching in The Lifelong Sector - undefined
Mediprospects Ltd
09.2016 - 07.2019
Level 3 Diploma in Children & Young People's Workforce - Childcare
Mediprospects Ltd
11.2016 - 06.2017
Level 4 Diploma in Adult Care - undefined
Mediprospects Ltd
07.2016 - 03.2017
Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practices - undefined
Mediprospects Ltd
05.2014 - 07.2015
Level 3 Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement - undefined
Mediprospects Ltd
05.2014 - 01.2015
Level 4 Certificate in Teaching in The Lifelong Sector - undefined
Bournemouth & Poole College
09.2012 - 06.2013
Skills
- Scheme of Work & Lesson Planning
- Effective Communication & Collaboration
- Classroom Management & Student Engagement
- Assessment & Feedback
- Building Positive Relationships
- Adaptive Teaching, Scaffolding & Special Education
- Problem-Solving & Critical Thinking
- Empathy, Patience & Motivational Skills
- Time Management & Organisation
- British Sign Language (BSL) Level 1
- Educational Technology (Google Classroom, Zoom, etc)
References
References available upon request.
Hobbies & Interests
- Travelling and exploring new cultures worldwide, which broadens my global perspective and enhances my adaptability
- Spending time with friends
- Hiking
- Yoga
- Films and theatre
- Music
- Healthy lifestyle (gym, cycling, badminton)
- Cooking
Timeline
TEFL - undefined
The TEFL Org
01.2025 - 05.2025
SEND Teacher
Victoria School
09.2024 - 04.2025
QTS -
Bournemouth Bay Teacher Training Partnership
09.2024 -
PGCE - English
University of Reading
09.2023 - 06.2024
Cover Teacher
Avonbourne Boys & Girls Academies
09.2022 - 07.2023
Community Support Worker
Autism Unlimited
03.2022 - 08.2022
Trainer / Assessor / Sales
Aspire Training Team
09.2021 - 02.2022
Primary Teaching Assistant (EYFS)
Isaac Newton Academy
09.2020 - 02.2021
Equality & Diversity Officer
Mediprospects Ltd
10.2017 - 08.2020
Level 3 Diploma in Children & Young People's Workforce - Childcare
Mediprospects Ltd
11.2016 - 06.2017
Level 5 Diploma in Teaching in The Lifelong Sector - undefined
Mediprospects Ltd
09.2016 - 07.2019
Level 4 Diploma in Adult Care - undefined
Mediprospects Ltd
07.2016 - 03.2017
Teacher / Assessor
Mediprospects Ltd
08.2014 - 08.2020
Level 4 Award in the Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practices - undefined
Mediprospects Ltd
05.2014 - 07.2015
Level 3 Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement - undefined
Mediprospects Ltd
05.2014 - 01.2015
Level 4 Certificate in Teaching in The Lifelong Sector - undefined
Bournemouth & Poole College
09.2012 - 06.2013
SEN Teaching Assistant
Glenmoor & Winton Academies
03.2012 - 07.2014
Communication Support Worker
Speakability (National Charity)
10.2011 - 03.2012
Communication Support Worker & Mentor
Asian Deaf Women's Association
10.2008 - 03.2009
Student Support Worker
University of Reading
10.2008 - 01.2009
BA (Hons) - Theatre Arts, Education & Deaf Studies
University of Reading
10.2006 - 06.2009
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