Pete Post

assistant professor of special education

on faculty since 2005

Phone: 708.239.4736
Fax: 708.597.5858
E-mail: pete.post@trnty.edu

Education

M.A., Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, 1982
B.A., Trinity Christian College, Palos Heights, Illinois, 1974

Professional and Personal Interests

Pete Post has a way of detecting God’s hand in his life. The special education teacher says it is pure providence that God placed him as a student at Trinity.
   
“As God would have it, when I came to Trinity I got a work-study job at Elim that led to my spending three of my four college years living at Elim as a dorm father. After graduating, Elim contacted me about teaching and enticed me with the fact that they had just built a gym that would be mine to use as I saw fit.”
   
After working at Elim for 30 years, the 1974 Trinity graduate saw that his alma mater was advertising for a position in special education.
   
“I felt that this was an opportunity for me shape future teachers who would later work at Elim as well as a means of enhancing Trinity’s continued relationship with Elim.”

Post earned his master’s degree in special education at Chicago State University. Decades of teaching have not diminished the delight he takes in his classroom.
   
“I get the greatest satisfaction out of teaching a special needs child to do something that other people thought he was incapable of doing.”
   
Post has shared in the joy of a Special Olympian who broke a five-minute mile and of having a former student wear the uniform of a paramedic and declare, “You told me I could do more than sweep floors.”
   
Post likes to garden and hike when he is not teaching. He and his wife, Caryl, have four children and one grandchild. The Posts live in Palos Heights, Illinois, and attend Hope Christian Reformed Church in Oak Forest, Illinois.

Courses Taught

• Introduction to Special Education
• Teaching Students with Low Incidence Disabilities, Age 3 - Grade 5
• Teaching Students with Low Incidence Disabilities, Grade 6 - Age 2

Professional Society Membership

• Illinois Special Olympics
• Illinois Council of Exceptional Children