PRIMARY FUNCTION:
To provide students with multiple disabilities with a program that will enable them to achieve their fullest potentials and facilitate their education within a school based program.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Collegiate Professional Certificate with an endorsement in Special Education Adapted Curriculum.
- Knowledge of medical aspects of the intellectually disabled students and their implications for instruction.
- Knowledge of resources and techniques needed to integrate the intellectually disabled individual into the least restrictive environment.
REPORTS TO: Building Principal
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- To serve as a member of an interdisciplinary team whose purpose is to provide appropriate educational programs for disabled students.
- To assist in screening, evaluating and recommending placements of applicants for the division’s Exceptional Leaners program.
- To assist in developing short - and long-range goals for the student’s individualized education program (IEP).
- To provide a basic core program for educable intellectually disabled students.
- To work cooperatively with classroom teachers who have intellectually disabilities students in regular classes by interpreting the abilities and disabilities of these students and to assist students with regular class assignments.
- To tutor, with specific educational planning, those students whose need for additional help cannot be met within the regular classroom.
- To maintain ongoing records of student performance in order to evaluate progress.
- To conduct an annual review and update short-term objectives.
- To hold periodic parent conferences and/or home visits.
- To keep abreast of recent developments in education for intellectually disabled students and to show evidence of continuing professional growth.
- To perform other duties as assigned by the principal.
EVALUATION:
Performance on this job will be evaluated in accordance with school board policy and administrative regulations on evaluation of certificated personnel. |