Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Position Title: Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Term of Employment: Full-Time; 10 month

Reports To: Principal/Director of Exceptional Children

Pay Information: State Salary Grade; Local Supplement

General Statement of Job

To ensure that the educational needs of children who are deaf or hearing impaired are met and that they become independent learners and achieve their full potential. To advise educators and families regarding the needs of children who are Deaf or hearing impaired.

Essential Job Functions

• To use professional knowledge to address the needs of the deaf/hearing impaired learner population while demonstrating respect for individual differences cultures and learning needs
• To assess the educational needs of learners who are deaf or hearing impaired as well as gather data to determine learner needs measure learner progress guide instruction and intervention and provide timely feedback to learners families and staff.
• To communicate and collaborate effectively with learners families and staff regarding students with hearing floss. This may involve:
• Classroom observations of learners with hearing loss
• Teacher training on the implications of hearing loss in the classroom setting
• Parent training on the implications of hearing loss and its impact for the learner
• Providing teachers with feedback regarding best practices for students withhearing loss in the classroom

• Assessment of curriculum needs and teaching strategies
• Assisting teachers in supporting the personal and social development of learners with hearing loss
• Oversee the use of technical and other specialized equipment for learners with hearing loss
• To oversee communication needs and language development in signed and/or spoken language as appropriate.
• To provide training and teaching to children or staff where appropriate to facilitate the childs learning inclusion and independence. This may include the use of specialist equipment and teaching and learning materials.
• To contribute to mandatory statutes including Individual Education Plans Present Levels of Functional Performance and Annual Reviews.
• To demonstrate behavior consistent with legal ethical and professional standards.
• To support and develop the work skills and knowledge of teaching assistants working with children who are deaf or hearing impaired.
• To work collaboratively with families other professionals and voluntary organizations.
• To maintain appropriate records as guided by service protocols to include: Individual Pupil records Visit records Records of assessments. Records of meetings and joint working with professionals and families. Equipment issued.
• To maintain and develop up to date knowledge of good practice in education specifically in relation to children who are deaf or hearing impaired.
• Performs other duties as deemed appropriate and assigned by the supervisor

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

STANDARD I: Teachers Demonstrate Leadership

The Teacher:

• Leads in the classroom by taking responsibility for all students learning.
• Demonstrates leadership in the school by working collaboratively with all school personnel
• to create a professional learning community.
• Leads the teaching profession by striving to improve the profession.
• Advocates for schools and students by promoting positive change in policies and practices
• affecting student learning.
• Demonstrates high ethical standards by upholding the Code of Ethics and Standards for
• Professional Conduct

STANDARD II: Teachers Establish a Respectful Environment for a Diverse Population of Students

The Teacher:

• Provides an environment in which each child has a positive nurturing relationship with
• caring adults by encouraging a climate that is inviting respectful supportive inclusive and
• flexible.
• Embraces diversity in the school community and in the world by demonstrating knowledge
• of diverse cultures.
• Treats students as individuals by maintaining high expectations for all students; and by
• appreciating differences and valuing contributions.
• Adapts teaching for the benefit of students with special needs by collaborating with
• specialists.
• Works collaboratively with the families and significant adults in the lives of their students by
• improving communication and collaboration between the school and the home and
• Community.

STANDARD III: Teachers Know the Content They Teach

The Teacher:

• Aligns instruction with the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
• Knows the content appropriate to teaching specialty by bringing a richness and depth of
• understanding to the classroom.
• Recognizes the interconnectedness of content areas/discipline by knowing the links and
• vertical alignment of grade or subject taught.
• Makes instruction relevant to students by incorporating 21st century life skills into teaching
• deliberately strategically and broadly.

STANDARD IV: Teachers Facilitate Learning for Their Students

The Teacher:

• Knows the ways in which learning takes place and the appropriate levels of intellectual
• physical social and emotional development of students by knowing how students think and learn.
• Plans instruction appropriate for students by collaborating with colleagues and using a
• variety of data sources for planning.
• Uses a variety of instructional methods by choosing methods and techniques that are most
• effective in meeting the needs of students.
• Integrates and utilizes technology in instruction by knowing when and how to use
• technology to maximize student learning.
• Helps students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills by encouraging students

to ask questions think creatively and draw conclusions.

• Helps students work in teams and develop leadership qualities by teaching the importance
• of cooperation and collaboration.
• Communicates effectively in ways that are clearly understood by students.
• Uses a variety of methods to assess what each student has learned by using multiple
• indicators to evaluate student progress.

STANDARD V: Teachers Reflect on Their Practice

The Teacher:

• Analyzes student learning by thinking systematically and critically about student learning.
• Links professional growth to professional goals by participating in continued high quality
• professional development that reflects a global view of educational practices.
• Functions effectively in a complex dynamic environment by understanding that change is
• constant.

Minimum Training and Experience

• Valid North Carolina Teaching License with Deaf and Hard of Hearing (K-12) certification
• Previous experience working as a Teacher of the Deaf in a public school preferred

Minimum Qualifications or Standards Required to Perform Essential Job Functions

• Physical Requirements: The work regularly requires standing and walking around the classroom and school. It requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech vision and hearing. The work requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations. The work often requires bending squatting reaching with the ability to lift carry push or pull light weights and rarely the lifting of weights above 30 pounds. The work occasionally handles/works with biohazards and/or risks for potential job-related injury such as those found in a laboratory or shop environment. The work requires activities occasionally involving driving automotive equipment.
• Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable functional structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data people or things.
• Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions assignments or directions to subordinates or assistants.
• Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence reports forms articles proposals contracts etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence reports forms evaluations contracts policies handbooks budgets etc. using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation grammar diction and style. Requires the ability to speak before groups of people with poise voice control and confidence.
• Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems collect data establish facts and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information to explain procedures to give oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a variety of technical or professional languages including educational and legal terminology.
• Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of descriptive statistics statistical inference and statistical theory.
• Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length width and shape.
• Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.
• Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
• Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
• Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear.) Must be able to communicate via telephone.

Disclaimer

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties responsibilities and qualifications required of employees to this job.