FAPE Teacher/Teacher Consultant

BENTON HARBOR AREA SCHOOLS

JOB DESCRIPTION

TITLE:                   FAPE Teacher/Teacher Consultant

LOCATION:            District-Wide

SUPERVISOR:        Special Education Supervisor

JOB SUMMARY:   Under the direction of the Special Education Supervisors, provide special education supports to students.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Valid Michigan Teaching License with Special Education endorsement.

• Minimum of 1-3 years experience in Special Education field preferred.

JOB FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide special education supports to students who are suspended or expelled

• Provide teacher consultant services to students in alternative education

• Provide compensatory education when necessary

• Coordinate with parents and students to schedule times and types of services needed

• Understand, implement and develop IEPs

• Flexible availability for during the school day and after school hours

• Comply with special education expectations

• Perform other job-related duties as required.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience with implementing and writing IEPs.

• Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information.

• Ability to receive and execute instructions, assignments or directions from superiors.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills and ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, position statement, meeting summaries, etc., using prescribed formats. Requires the ability to speak before groups of people with poise, voice control, and confidence. Thorough knowledge of grammatical rules, spelling, punctuation and formats required.

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs and all other statistical measurement tools.

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed and involved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations. Ability to utilize courtesy and tact when communicating with others to deliver clear and concise messages.
  
  
  

Physical Demands:    The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, talk and hear.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and depth perception. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus.

Terms of Employment:

This is a year round position. Hours may vary- on call basis.

Hourly rate: $30/hour

Evaluation:

Performance of this job will be evaluated by the Special Education Supervisors.

The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the American with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position.  Additional duties are performed by the individual currently holding this position and additional duties may be assigned. Job descriptions are not intended as and do not create employment contracts.  The organization maintains its status as an at-will employer. Employees can be terminated for any reason not prohibited by law.

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