Career Development Teacher - Home Visitor - 12 month

Job Title: Teacher Career Development 12 Month

Location: School Based

Pay Grade: Service Career Development Scale

Work Calendar: 12 Month Employees All

FLSA Status: Exempt

GENERAL PURPOSE

Under the supervision of the Principal or another designated administrator the Career Development Teacher develops and implements an instructional program that will effectively meet the needs of all students. The Career Development Teacher assesses and evaluates student performance and modifies instructional activities as appropriate.

MAIN JOB TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Support Student Learning

• Practice and promote positive interaction with and among students by demonstrating enthusiasm for learning and maintaining interest in students.
• Encourage selfdirection and selfmotivation in students.
• Adapt and adjust instructional presentation of subject content to students needs and interests.
• Maintain and organized program of instruction based on effective longrange plans with evidence of effective lesson planning.
• Utilize a variety of appropriate materials and resources.
• Communicate the lesson objective and its importance to students.
• Utilize appropriate and varied teaching techniques and leaning activities both in class and out of class.
• Maintain an effective system of monitoring student progress and to inform appropriate persons of such progress.

School Building Responsibilities

• Complete required reports promptly and accurately.
• Accept responsibilities outside the classroom as they relate to the school.
• Assume responsibility for a neat safe environment for students committed to the teachers care.

PositionSpecific Responsibilities

• Make home visits to each child weekly on a flexible schedule when parents are available as assigned by the program and as needed by the families.
• Plan coordinate with community agencies and guest speakers and provide twice a month group socialization experiences for homebased families that meet individual childrens developmental needs.
• Complete all required screenings and assessments within prescribed timelines.
• Serve as Family Service Worker to families of assigned students. Work with families to develop annual goals. Provide appropriate resources for family needs and follow up with appropriateness timeliness and quality of services received. Document all referrals and services received.
• Report safety issues or suspected child abuse immediately to the Health Coordinator and/or Supervisor of Head Start.
• Write and implement home visit activities for parents to do with their children that develop all areas of the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework: cognition approaches to learning social and emotional development language and literacy perceptual motor and physical development and promoting health and nutrition implementing the programs curriculum with fidelity. Provide appropriate parenting information and practice activities for parents to implement appropriate techniques. Use resources in the home when possible and provide loaned materials as needed.
• Document communication with parents and encourage parents to participate. Give parents suggestions for activities to assist their child at home. Use appropriate parent suggestions for developmental activities.
• Document weekly conferences with each students parent. Inform parents of the results of each screening and assessment.
• Attend Preservice InService and all staff meetings.
• Assist with evening and weekend special events including the Family Thanksgiving Dinner the Winter Music Program the Parents as Educational Partners Auction the Family Picnic evening Parent Center Committee meetings and the monthly Mens Events.

Support and demonstrate core values of Stafford County Public Schools

• Engage in ongoing professional development relevant to the position.
• Respond to written and oral requests for information promptly and thoroughly.
• Maintain a clean neat appearance appropriate to position.
• Maintain a record of appropriate attendance and punctuality.
• Serve as a role model for students colleagues and the general public.
• Work in close harmony with colleagues supervisors and coworkers.
• Comply with all District and School policies and regulations including but not limited to guidelines for confidentiality.
• Perform other related duties as required/assigned.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Associates degree Bachelors degree or education related to specific subject area to which assigned.
• Currently enrolled in an education program at an accredited college/university and be within one 1 year of completing the program.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Knowledge
  • Thorough knowledge of the subject being taught
  • Classroom management strategies appropriate to the learning situation
• Skills
  • Relate positively to parents and other community representatives
  • Assess individual needs and performance
  • Demonstrate the ability to involve the families of the children in the program and to support the development of relationships between children and their families.
  • Demonstrate the ability to implement appropriate parenting strategies with families.
  • Demonstrate ability to relate positively to parents and other community representatives.
  • Demonstrate thorough knowledge of childrens development.
  • Demonstrate classroom management strategies appropriate to the learning situation.
  • Demonstrate the ability to assess individual needs and performance.
• Abilities
  • Address criticism in an appropriate manner and develop constructive outcomes
  • Work cooperatively in a team environment to meet goals
  • Organize and perform work independently
  • Meet deadlines for all work even when working on multiple projects
  • Show sustained effort and enthusiasm in quality and quantity of work

WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Work environment is inside a classroom but could include outside activities with moderate noise temperatures that are controlled but can be subject to outside temperatures and no exposure to chemicals or other negative air quality elements.
• The work is light work requiring exertion of up to 20 pounds of force to move or lift objects.
• The following physical and mental abilities are representative of those expected to complete the essential functions of the job: standing for prolonged periods; sitting for prolonged periods; moving the hands wrists or fingers repetitively; moving with force on the back or lower body repetitively; feeling grasping or holding objects by hand; identifying colors visually; identifying objects in low light or distant conditions; communicating via spoken language; communicating via written language; perceiving sounds; making decisions using logic and rational thinking.

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations shall be made as required by law to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions herein described.

Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in this job description.