Rita Woods

Special Education, Resource, At Risk, and 5th grade math teacher (09/21/1998 – 06/27/2008)

Held four positions within the school district. Trained teachers to recognize and respond to students with special needs as well as documentation requirements. Held numerous meetings with parents, teachers, and support personnel to insure academic, social and emotional student growth. Communicated with parents every 3 weeks on progress toward goals. Taught students with a variety of backgrounds and needs in a regular education and special education environment.

Last Employer: Bullard ISD

Contact Person: Lynette Hughes/ 903-894-6600

Responsibilities: Developing programs and lesson plans to insure student learning progress toward goals established by IEP committee and recommended by me. Implemented lesson plans make in accordance with IEP goals and Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills. Served as consultant to regular education teachers on ways to teach to specific special need students. Met with parents and school officials regularly to make recommendations and update progress of students. Administered TAKS ALT, TAKS M, TELPAS, FDA and other testing as required by District. Held workshops for teachers to educate them on requirements for serving specific special needs children. Served on Building and District Site Base Teams. Documentation on progress of each student.

Accomplishments: Most student achieved above one level of education skills each year. District Teacher of the Month- Nov. 2007 District Teacher of the Year- 2008

Realtor (09/30/1991 – 08/26/1997)

Listed and sold homes in the Sugar Land, TX area for six years.

Last Employer: Gary Greene Realtors/ Re/Max Heritage

Contact Person: Toni Nelson

Responsibilities: Develop personal marketing plans to distinguish me as an agent. Developed and implemented marketing plans for homes listed with me. Wrote advertisements and held open houses for properties. Kept abreast of market conditions. Developed and presented Competitve Market Analysis' to home owners.

Accomplishments: Multi-Million Dollar Producer each year.

Substitute Teacher (09/08/2008 – Present)

Work with children from grades 2-5 in a departmental setting.

Last Employer: Commerce ISD

Contact Person: Trish King/ 903-886-3758

Responsibilities: Provide on-going educational experiences for children in place of the regular teacher. Duties include teaching classes, lunch room, playground and after school supervision.

Director of the Family Project, Holdrege, NE. (11/09/1981 – 03/14/1986)

Five years of heading up a Project for those needing assistance and not served by other agencies. Help was usually given annoymously. Most recipients were farm families losing their farms after generations had held and worked the land.

Last Employer: Holdrege Family Project

Contact Person: John Titus/ 308-995-4102

Responsibilities: Raised awareness of needs of families who were in adverse circumstances through economic conditions and not served by other agencies through public speaking engagements, letters, and newpaper articles. Found professionals in medicine, law, education, and retail who were willing to donate services or money to the project. Screened applicants who were referred by churches and community members. Accepted donations from organizations and individuals throughout the year but especially around Christmas. Screened, trained, and supervised volunteers.

Accomplishments: The first year 16 individuals were provided Christmas gifts and services. By the end of the fifth year, help had been extended year round and served over 160 individuals.

Director of Education (07/21/1980 – 09/30/1981)

Worked one year for Holdredge United Methodist Church

Last Employer: Holdrege United Methodist Church

Contact Person: Rev. Robert Wigert, deceased.

Responsibilities: Developed programs and activities for adults and children. Trained volunteer workers. Supervised After School program, youth groups, sunday school and other groups as well as kept the church library. Frequent public speaker at local and regional events.

Accomplishments: Initiated and ran successful after school program for children in Grades 1-6.

Establishment: Southwest Missouri State University

Degree: B.S

Education Period: 09/06/1966 - 05/08/1970

Speciality: Comprehensive Elementary Education

Average Grade: 2.65 overall

Details: 3.6 average in major.

Establishment: Drury College

Degree: Master of Science

Education Period: 06/01/1970 - 08/10/1974

Speciality: Education

Average Grade: 3.75

Details: Course work centered on working with exceptional children.

Establishment: Kearney State College

Degree: working toward MBA

Education Period: 06/03/1985 - 12/08/1989

Average Grade: 3.3

Details: Completed 28 out of the 36 required hours toward MBA. Moved out of state before program could be completed.

Establishment: University of Texas @ Tyler, TX

Education Period: 06/01/1999 - 08/06/1999

Average Grade: 3.5

Details: Six hours of courses for teaching special needs students. Resulted in qualifying to test for Specialization Certification, which I passed and received the appropriate certification.

Establishment: North Texas Center for Autism

Education Period: 09/11/2007 - 05/15/2008

Average Grade: Passed

Details: A one year program in Applied Behavioral Analysis entitled Trainer of Trainers, Phase 1. Of course, the program was to make educators more proficient in testing and instructing autistic children.