Terry Ballan

As a Special Education Teacher, I have instructed elementary, middle and high school students in co-teaching/inclusive environments, resource room, and one-on-one tutoring online.  I have utilized effective learning tools including Wilson Reading Systems, Recipe for Reading, LiPS, Seeing Stars, P.A.F., V/V, Story Grammar Marker, and Slingerland Reading with children who have a variety of challenges from intellectual to speech and language concerns.  Cloud Nine, Touch Math, and Math Magician are helpful mathematics methods I am experienced with, and I have used to assist students in their understanding of mathematics and number sense to increase test scores in meaningful ways.  Basic Writing Skills, Step Up to Writing, and Writer's Conference are techniques I use which offer valuable strategies across the curriculum for students with writing difficulties.

In addition, I have worked with emotionally charged students using classroom management skills to maintain control under very difficult circumstances.  It is important for students to maintain their self-esteem and dinity, while learning and practicing social life skills in the context of the classroom to extend in other life situations.   My background is as a Program Developer, Director, Trainer, and educator with a focus on improving classroom instruction related to STEM and learning-to-learn across the  curriculum. I have experience with students with a wide variety of disabilities such as speech, vision, and hearing disabilities, Autism Spectrum, ADHD, physical and health disabilities, dyslexia, and other learning disabilities, to name a few.