Rice County Special Services is looking for a full time Elementary Interrelated Teacher for the 2020-21 school year.
Job Title: Interrelated (Grades K-2)
Purpose: The Interrelated Resource Teacher is to create a flexible program and a class environment favorable to learning and personal growth; to establish effective rapport with pupils; to motivate pupils to develop skills, attitudes and knowledge needed to provide a good foundation for education, in accordance with each pupil’s ability, to establish good relationships with parents and other staff members.
Responsible to: Building Principal, RCSSC Director
Supervises: Classified personnel as assigned by the administration
Qualifications:
- Kansas State Teaching Certificate/Licenses in assigned area (s) of instruction.
- Highly qualified as defined in the No Child Left Behind Legislation.
- Ability to convey information to students in a variety of methods to induce learning.
- Ability to use technology as an instructional tool.
- Ability to use appropriate classroom management skills that insure a positive learning
environment.
- Keep active in understanding the current trends in the discipline.
Essential Functions:
- Ability to communicate effectively with students, parents, colleagues, and the community.
- Ability to effectively manage the classroom.
- Ability to perform assigned tasks.
- Ability to establish goals and objectives.
- Ability to design effective strategies to achieve goals.
- Ability to make the subject matter relevant to the students.
- Ability to supervise students in non-classroom settings.
- Ability to promote education throughout the community.
- Ability to insure classroom activities conform to District policies, rules, and regulations.
Physical Requirements/Environmental Conditions:
- Must occasionally work in noisy and crowded environments with numerous interruptions.
- Requires stooping, kneeling, bending, turning, and reaching.
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- Ability to move equipment within the building as required.
- Requires prolonged sitting and standing; and use of equipment causing eye fatigue.
General responsibilities:
- Teaches subject matter to students not enrolled in mainstreaming classes. (example
English).
- Provides students with tutoring for mainstream classes.
- Develops lesson plans and instructional materials and provides individualized and small group instruction in order to adapt the curriculum to the needs of the pupil.
- Translates lesson plans into learning experiences so as to best utilize the available time for instruction.
- Establishes and maintains standards of individual student behavior.
- Works closely with other teachers to help the students maintain satisfactory class work homework and behavior.
- Evaluates pupil’s academic and social growth, keeps appropriate records, and prepares progress reports.
- Evaluates each student in terms of needs and progress toward remediation.
- Creates an effective environment for learning through functional and attractive displays, bulletin boards and interest centers.
- Prepares progress reports and year-end evaluations, administering pretests and post tests as appropriate and necessary.
- Participates in staffings about educationally handicapped students.
- Participates in selection and evaluation of students for admission to the special education program.
- Is responsible for students’ Individual Education Plan development and implementation.
14 Communicates with parents through conferences and other means to discuss pupil’s progress and interpret the school program.
- Performs basic attendance accounting and similar record keeping functions.
- Selects and requisitions books and instructional aids; maintains required inventory records.
- Fulfills other assignments given by supervisors.
- Participates in faculty committees and sponsorship of pupil activities.
- Participates in curriculum development programs as required.
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- Maintains professional competence through inservice education activities provided by the district and self-selected professional growth activities.
- Keeps abreast of new developments in the field by reading journals and publications, attending professional society meetings, seminars, and discussing problems of mutual interest with others in the field.
- Provide community education as a resource speaker as requested.
23 Provide on site training for newly hired paraeducators.
- Willingness and flexibility to adopt new teaching strategies into their classroom.
- Prepare students for local, state, and national summative assessments.
Term of Employment: As per negotiated teacher agreement
Payment Rate: According to Certified Salary Schedule
Evaluation: Performance effectiveness will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board of Education Policy of Certified Personnel.
Date of Board of Education Approval: 08/09/04
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