Full-Time -Itinerant Special Education Teacher

Reports To\: Administrative Superior

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District in the country and transforming the educational opportunities it offers to our city’s more than 198,405 students. The District seeks leaders who have a passion for working with schools and communities who are committed to ensuring all students achieve. Serving a population as diverse as ours requires creativity, commitment and vision. Will you join us?

Job Summary

At the itinerant level, assists in the development and implementation of school-based job training programs for exceptional students enrolled in Life Skills Support and Autistic Support Programs. Provides an array of direct services that support the development of job-related skills and assists the student in making a successful transition from school to work. Establishes and maintains ancillary community training/career exploration sites and collaborates with personnel in the local employment sector to determine appropriate job opportunities and associated training activities. Instructs bilingual students using a specified world language and English. Participates in the Individual Education Plan development process, writes Individual Education Plans for an assigned caseload of students, orienting school staff to program objectives and providing staff with transition related training.

Essential Functions

Both Specialties

• Assesses students’ interests and interpersonal and functional skills levels.

• Determines appropriate setting and methodologies for job-related skills training.

• Establishes training plans based on Individual Education Plan goals and objectives to develop students’ work socialization capabilities.

• Collaborates with outside placement/employment agency staff, school staff, students, parents, employers and others to facilitate transition.

• Consults with on-site supervisors and school staff to insure that school-based training is practical and relevant to job performance.

• Synthesizes and provides, in accord with confidentiality guidelines, student-specific information to agencies involved in the transition process.

• Partners with community-based organizations and businesses for the purpose of establishing training and career exploration sites for students.

• Assesses students for community site-based training.

• Monitors training sites to ensure that state-of-the-art training is provided to students.

• Collaborates with outside agency staff to determine job availability and skills needed to perform employment tasks.

• Assists students in completing applications, preparing resumes and other employmentrelated activities.

• Facilitates necessary roster adjustments to permit students’ release from school.

• Participates on a multi-disciplinary team that includes professional and nonprofessional staff; collaborates with other team members for the purpose of planning and developing a comprehensive educational program for students.

• Participates in Individual Education Plan conferences.

• Writes Individual Education Plans that set individualized goals and objectives for each student in assigned caseload; ensures that Plans are complete and current.

• Monitors implementation of Individual Education Plans for each student in assigned caseload.

• Maintains necessary records and submits statistical reports as required.

Bilingual Specialty

• Provides instruction in a specified world language as well as English.

• Creates a learning environment in which students have access to bilingual educational materials that address their needs and interests

• Keeps abreast of the latest developments and improvements in bilingual education as it affects the instructional program.