Roles and Responsibilities

ECE Teacher

?     Serves as lead of the instructional team for the classroom

?     Establishes time to meet, plan, and communicate with instructional assistants

?     Provides daily lesson plans available for instruction and for review as needed

?     Provides a developmentally appropriate classroom, environment, and curriculum

?     Provides a program that supports the development of the whole child

?     Use the adopted curriculum, Big Day for Pre-K, along with the Ohio Early Learning Content Standards to guide teaching

?     Provides an organized, attractive learning environment that includes a variety of learning materials, learning centers, and a variety of books (fiction and nonfiction) to help form the foundation for children learning to read.

?     Provides ongoing assessment, including the Brigance screening tool, Big Day curriculum assessment, ELA, anecdotal records, portfolios, observations, interviews with children and parents, progress reports, etc.

?     Provides opportunities for parents/families to become involved in the education of their children (family nights, parent meetings, opportunities to volunteer in the classroom, attend field trips, serve as mentors to other parents, etc.)

?     Family and Community Engagement and Outreach (Home Visits, Parent Orientation, Conferences, etc.)

?     Communicates regularly with parents

?     Provides appropriate and consistent classroom management, including the posting of at least 3 simple rules children can understand and follow consistently.  Reviews and models appropriate behavior daily to help students understand the rules and the rationale for them.

?     Collaborates with Instructional Assistants, ECE Nurses, ECE Social Workers, and other building support staff as a team in providing a comprehensive early childhood program (education, social services, health services, and parent involvement) for young children

?     Participates in ongoing professional development and keep all state licensing requirements up-to-date (first aid, child abuse prevention communicable disease, etc.)

?     Other duties/responsibilities as assigned

CE Itinerant Teacher

 In addition to ECE Intervention Special duties, the ECE itinerant teacher has the following additional duties:

?     Travels across the CCS catchment area to various locations to provide specially designed direct instruction to ECE students with disabilities while also offering advice, resources, and support to community providers, teachers, and families

?     Serves a caseload of 20 children in various locations (homes, Head Start, ECE Classrooms, community providers/daycares, hospitals, etc.)

?     Engages with the above listed agencies to promote best practice and research based learning environments for the child by providing various supports (classroom and/or curriculum modifications, adapted equipment, sensory materials, behavioral supports, etc.)

?     Participates weekly as a member of the Preschool Intervention Assistance Team (PIAT) to determine need for further evaluation of children who attend screening

?     Participates in Eligibility Meetings, as needed, providing input and serving as the Special Education Teacher

?     Acts as General Education teacher, as appropriate, for coworkers IEP meetings

?     Completes all required assessments (ELA, COSF, Brigance, IEP progress reports, anecdotal records, interviews with parents, portfolios, etc.)

?     Consults with related service personnel as needed and outlined on the IEP

?     Acts as a liaison with community agencies (i.e., Head Start, The Childhood League, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, The Nisonger Center, various community childcare providers, etc) in areas where teacher serves students

?     Distributes materials to schools in designated itinerant area, as needed

?     Other duties/responsibilities as assigned