Life Skills Instructor Resume Examples

Experienced career professional Life Skills Instructor offers a broad knowledge base in assisting individuals with disabilities.With many years of experience has the requisite understanding of appropriate IEP development and implementation.

• Highly knowledgeable with the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act of 2004 (IDEA)
• Extensive experience with developing appropriate Individual Education Plans (IEP)
• Understands how to set small goals to assist students with learning daily living skills
• Patient and understanding with students
• Helps students learn basic skills to more fully be able to integrate
• Assists students in working with their disabilities to accomplish independence

• Worked within the Special Education department as a Life Skills Instructor teaching teenagers with disabilities of all types how to accomplish ordinary daily living tasks.
• Focused on helping students gain independent living skills.
• Functioned as a member of a team of professionals for each individual student.
• Attending meetings with parents and other providers drafted goals broke goals down into individual measurable steps and wrote IEP plans.
• Provided instruction according to individualized plans tailored to each individual student’s particular needs.
• Tracked progress toward goal accomplishment and reported findings every three months.
• Taught skills including how to write checks and balance a checkbook basic cooking and nutrition social skills applying to colleges and trade schools interviewing skills and much more.
• Helped students to prepare for independent lives as adults.