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Ms. Paula Bartok
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Belleville Area Special Services Cooperative
Hometown:
O'Fallon, IL
Class Information:
Students per Class: Approximately 220 students in 3 Instructional Programs (Autism, Developmentally Delayed and Behavioral Disorder)
Class Description:
Belleville Area Special Services Cooperative (BASSC) provides educational programming for low incidence disability categories such as autism, vision impairment, hearing impairment, behavioral/emotional disorders and severe/profound mental impairments to students from early childhood through high school. Each student Individualized Education Program varies based on the needs of the student. BASSC provides an array of specialized related services and technical assistance.
Position:
Assistive Technology Assistant/Braillist/EducationalInterpreter
Needs:
A Digital Camera to be used to take photos of a student's classroom, daily living skills, family and friends to implement into their classrooms and devices to help facilitate communication. Smart boards give children with disabilities the visualization, sensory and sound to stimulate their learning process. PortableClassroom Projector allows students to get visual effect during lessons and sensory, to get the full attention of all students, interaction and participation from all students at the same time and to help with peer modeling and behavior in group situations. The Print Shop Deluxe is a way for students to express their creativity and imagination.
Personal Information:
Employment History:
I have worked at BASSC for 14 years and I enjoy all three fields I work in.
Why Do I Teach?:
I truly believe in working with children to empower them to be as independent as possible and to accept whatever is thrown their way and turning events into positives. Having a great attitude and achieving the best they can at their own pace. Realizing that everyone makes mistakes and people are human and to learn student’s, teachers and parent’s can only control themselves and their attitudes about people, places and things. To come to work with an open mind and to be prepared to think outside the box, to always be willing to adapt and change to whatever the child needs may be to be successful in anything they achieve no matter how little or big and that every achievement be celebrated.