What are the responsibilities and job description for the Child Development Specialist; Bellview; 1.0 FTE; Probationary position at Ashland School District?
- Teams and collaborates with all stakeholders
- Agents for change, especially for education access and equity for all students
- Involvement with students, parents, education professionals, community, community agencies
- Supervise Counseling Interns.
- Follow guidelines set forth by the Oregon Framework for Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Programs for K-12 education.
- Facilitates student growth in four student development domains: Academic, Career, Personal/Social, and Community Involvement.
- Establish and communicate services and referral systems to children, teachers and parents.
- Assess the development, self esteem, socialization and communication needs of referred children.
- Develop and follow to completion individual action plans to assist in each child's growth.
- Organize and implement groups to serve specific growth and development needs of children.
- Serve as a resource for teachers in designing and implementing effective learning activities in classrooms.
- Provide inservice training and resources to parents, teachers and other staff members.
- Cooperate with others in school utilizing observation, interpretation, group process and case record skills.
- Stand while teaching classes.
- Use hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
- Speak clearly so listeners can understand.
- Understand the speech of another person.
- See details of objects whether they are nearby or far away.
- Hear sounds and recognize the difference between them.
- Focus on one source of sound and ignore others.
- See differences between colors, shades, and brightness.
- Use fingers or hands to grasp, move, or assemble very small objects.
- Hold the arm and hand in one position or hold the hand steady while moving the arm.
- Be physically active for long periods without getting tired or out of breath.
- Use stomach and lower back muscles to support the body for long periods without getting tired.
- Move two or more limbs together (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while remaining in place.
- Coordinate movement of several parts of the body, such as arms and legs, while the body is moving.
- Determine the distance between objects.
- Use muscles to lift, push, pull, or carry heavy objects.
- Use muscles for extended periods without getting tired.
- Keep or regain the body's balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Bend, stretch, twist, or reach out.
- Move arms and legs quickly
- Assess baseline academic levels, learning abilities, needs, and styles of students of significantly different capabilities.
- Exercise creativity and mental flexibility in presenting instructional material to accommodate students of widely varying learning styles and intellectual levels.
- Develop a curriculum sequence which allows for adequate coverage of all required academic subjects during the school year.
- Facilitate the development of student self-esteem, trust, and respect through positive, constructive, student-teacher interaction in both group and individual settings.
- Understand and carry out the, selection, implementation, and maintenance of current teaching support technology and materials.
- Create opportunities for students to receive personalized assistance through use of support services (e.g., volunteers, teacher aides, support technologies).
- Determine how to fulfill curricula to maximize students’ acquisition of mastery skills.
- Create teaching processes which maximize relevance and student involvement in authentic tasks which facilitate learning.
- Manage the distraction of interruptions without losing concentration or unduly disrupting class work.
- Keep current with the best teaching processes, instructional resources and materials.
- Possess the motivation and self-discipline to maintain currency with professional literature, teaching techniques, technology and instructional materials.
- Detect and understand the unique roadblocks individual students have in learning and demonstrate patience by persevering with traditional or alternative learning processes.
- Manage the repetitive instructional preparation, review, and grading of student assignments without experiencing undue stress (which leads to emotional detachment from the teaching process and to ineffectiveness in the classroom).
- Maintain high emotional energy and display enthusiasm for the subject matter and individual student effort.
- Develop effective coping strategies for dealing with the fatigue and stress of ongoing involvement in teaching, supervising, and monitoring of students.
- Take the appropriate emotional risk to implement new teaching techniques and instructional technology and materials.
JobID: 1148
Position Type:
Elementary School Teaching/Child Development Specialist
Elementary School Teaching/Child Development Specialist
Date Posted:
4/4/2025
4/4/2025
Location:
Bellview Elementary School
Bellview Elementary School
Date Available:
8/18/25
8/18/25
Closing Date:
Open until filled
Open until filled
POSITION TITLE: Child Development Specialist, 1.0 FTE; Probationary
SITE: Student Services/Bellview
TARGET START DATE: August 18, 2025
SITE: Student Services/Bellview
TARGET START DATE: August 18, 2025
FLSA: Exempt
SALARY: Salary based on certified schedule
Ashland School District appreciates the diversity and worth of all individuals and groups and their roles in society. It is the policy of the Ashland School District Board of Education that there will be no discrimination or harassment of individuals or groups on the grounds of age, color, creed, disability, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation in any educational programs, activities or employment.
Family and Medical Leave Rights:
English: https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/posters/fmlaen.pdf
Spanish: https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/posters/fmlasp.pdf
Spanish: https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/posters/fmlasp.pdf
QUALIFICATIONS:
1. Major Coursework in Psychology, Counseling, Social Work
2. Holds, or will be able to obtain by position start, an Oregon State Counseling License or School Counseling License, issued by the Oregon Teacher's Standards and Practices Commission, or appropriately qualified mental health provider (QMHP). Will consider accepting other licensure requiring a strong clinical background.
3. Training in child growth and development, human interaction, and counseling and learning theories.
4. Experience in coordinating child development activities with human resource services.
5. Sensitive and tactful person, with an ability to work with children and adults.
6. Demonstrated effectiveness in counseling elementary students.
7. Requires strong communication skills and technological proficiency.
8. Bilingual preferred.
9. Background or experience with restorative justice practices preferred.
JOB GOAL:
The primary focus of this position is to work with students to help them reflect and learn from their behavior or choices that have adversely impacted the learning community. To build self esteem and to develop the communication skills of these children while teaching them to accept personal responsibility as a key to learning and living. To guide children around potential learning problems through positive reinforcement. To emphasize the individual child and bring resources to that child by coordinating home, school, and community into a cooperative effort.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES:
2. Holds, or will be able to obtain by position start, an Oregon State Counseling License or School Counseling License, issued by the Oregon Teacher's Standards and Practices Commission, or appropriately qualified mental health provider (QMHP). Will consider accepting other licensure requiring a strong clinical background.
3. Training in child growth and development, human interaction, and counseling and learning theories.
4. Experience in coordinating child development activities with human resource services.
5. Sensitive and tactful person, with an ability to work with children and adults.
6. Demonstrated effectiveness in counseling elementary students.
7. Requires strong communication skills and technological proficiency.
8. Bilingual preferred.
9. Background or experience with restorative justice practices preferred.
JOB GOAL:
The primary focus of this position is to work with students to help them reflect and learn from their behavior or choices that have adversely impacted the learning community. To build self esteem and to develop the communication skills of these children while teaching them to accept personal responsibility as a key to learning and living. To guide children around potential learning problems through positive reinforcement. To emphasize the individual child and bring resources to that child by coordinating home, school, and community into a cooperative effort.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES:
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EVALUATION:
Performance of this job will be evaluated annually in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
Performance of this job will be evaluated annually in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.
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