Job Description
Position Type: Student Support Services
Date Posted: 5/4/2023
Location: Deer Creek School District Educational Interpreter
Position Purpose Under the direct supervision of a certified staff member, to assist certified professional staff with hearing impaired students in the classroom to meet instructional goals and objectives.
Essential Job Functions - Interpersonal skills to work effectively and collaboratively with staff and students within the instructional setting.
- General knowledge of:
- Academic subjects and current events
- Educational process and organization
- Principles and practices of special education
- Aspects and issues of deaf culture
- Assists and guides students to reinforce reading, language arts, mathematics, computer instruction, and other skills.
- Works with students individually and in small groups to reinforce basic learning and implement assigned programs.
- Assists professional staff in the administration and correction of classroom exercises, tests and assessments.
- Assists in classroom preparations and strategies for reinforcing instructional materials and skills according to individual student needs.
- Assists with record-keeping procedures to document student learning and performance.
- Assists with classroom behavioral management to minimize disruptions, ensure a safe and orderly classroom, and ensure students are on task.
- Assists students in non-instructional areas, such as supervising the student lunch programs, bus duty, playground duty, corridor, study hall, and other related non-instructional areas.
- Accompanies students on field trips for the purpose of assisting with supervision.
- Constructs, copies and distribute and use educational materials as needed.
- Assists teacher with parent contact as requested to foster effective and participatory parent involvement in student education.
- Assists students with special needs in all aspects of classroom instruction to maximize inclusion, learning, achievement if IEP objectives, etc.
- Participates in IEP process and serves as resource for the student personnel evaluation team as needed.
- Assist hearing impaired students with activities of daily living for the purpose of maximizing their ability to participate in school or learning activities.
- Follows all applicable safety rules, procedures and regulations governing the proper manner of assistance for all students, including those with disabilities or other special needs.
- May assist in the training of other paraprofessionals.
Additional Duties: - Assist guidance, pupil services staff or building administration, as needed.
- Perform any other related duties as assigned
Note: The above description is illustrative of tasks and responsibilities. It is not meant to be all inclusive of every task or responsibility.
Equipment Use standard office equipment, such as personal computers and copiers.
Travel Requirements Travel between schools, or between schools and central offices, may be required for certain positions.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities - Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written or oral form.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide, and perform arithmetic operations as needed to assist students.
- Ability to understand, apply and use personal computers and software applications (e.g., Word, Excel).
- Ability to work with a diverse group of individuals.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality of information regarding students, employees and others.
- Ability to establish a supportive and compassionate relationship with students with special needs.
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with students, staff and others contacted in the course of work.
- Ability to report work orally or in writing to supervisor as required.
- Effective writing and verbal communication skills.
Physical and Mental Demands, Work Hazards Works in standard office and school building environments.
Ability to work outdoors during outdoor student activities.
Note: Also see the Summary of Physical, Sensory and Environmental Requirements Needed to Perform Essential Job Duties for this position.
Qualifications Profile: Any combination of education and experience providing the required skill and knowledge for successful performance would be qualifying. Typical qualifications would be equivalent to:
- Attainment of a bachelor's degree; OR Completion of three (3) or more years of work in an area related to the field of deaf education; AND
- One or more of the following:
- Certification by the Registry of Interpreters of the Deaf (RID); OR
- National Association of the Deaf (NAD) Level IV or better; OR
- Quality Assurance Screening Test (QAST) Level III or better; OR
- Documentation of a comparable level of proficiency
- Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment (EIPA) equals a 3.5 at the level in which the person interpreters (i.e., elementary or secondary) (See 70 O.S. - 13-115.3 (a), (B).)
- Prior experience working with special needs children desirable.
FLSA Status: Non-exempt
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