Ross School District

Job Description

Job Title: 

Learning Center/ K-8 Resource Specialist

Description of Position:

To provide direct diagnostic and instructional services to students with disabilities in the core curriculum and to students who don’t show adequate progress toward grade level goals; serve as an educational consultant to general education teachers by specifying what supplementary supports and aids are necessary for students to access and progress in the core curriculum; and meet the needs of accelerated students by offering enrichment groups with thematic lessons; project-based learning; and fieldwork

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

Instruction

• Teach access strategies to students and provide intensive intervention through differentiated activities
• Promote greater independence for students progressing in the general education curriculum and accelerate the rate of achievement
• Elicit greater student engagement; reinforce curriculum; and offer remediated instruction
• Knowledge in the use of technology for skill building centers

Case Management

• Use results of diagnostic, evaluative and testing procedures to identify students, assess student progress and monitor growth
• Participate in Data Decision Making (DDM) team meetings
• Serve as case manager for special education eligible students by assessing and observing student progress on a regular basis and making changes to the IEP if student is not making appropriate progress
• Develop goals appropriate to meet individual student’s needs and keep updated progress on goals
• Conduct individual academic assessments for initial and triennial evaluations
• Interpret and write meaningful reports
• Facilitate or participate in IEP team meeting
• Train and direct instructional aides  

Educational Consultant

• Share knowledge, resources and skills through collaboration with general education teachers
• Assist, model and train classroom teachers on effective accommodations and modification techniques
• Share joint responsibility for planning, assessment and instruction for students participating in the learning center
• Incorporate more co-teaching opportunities in the service delivery model of instruction
• Assist in how tech programs and applications can be generalized into general education classrooms
• Assist administration and staff (in-services, workshops, etc.) in the development of new and innovative programs to assist in meeting the needs of students in the general education classroom
• Establish and maintain channels of communication with home and related agencies as necessary

Credential Requirements

• Multiple Subject Credential
• Mild to Moderate Special Education Credential
• Masters Degree in special education and additional single subject credential in math preferred

Board Approved: June 19, 2013___________