SUMMARY
Assess students for special education eligibility including psychological assessments and determine appropriate placement options, counseling of students.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:
- Prepare for and conduct all ARD meetings, transfer, annual, behavioral, evaluations within state adopted timelines.
- Complete full individual evaluations and re-evaluations within state adopted timelines.
- Consult with school staff, related service providers, parents, medical professionals, and community agencies regarding the assessment of students and implementation of the IEP.
- Development of students’ transition plan, including coordinating outside agencies and training for students and parents.
- Maintain accurate records to reflect 100% on the PBMAS compliance monitoring document.
- Disseminate accurate an appropriate information regarding up-to-date special education legal requirements and/or changes and how those changes affect student placement.
- Assists with planning and presentation of professional development programs for special education personnel.
- Assists with planning and presentation of professional development programs for regular education personnel as requested by administration.
- Coordinates paperwork to consider move to a more restrictive environments when necessary
- Assists in the development of special education operating guidelines and handbook for special education personnel, facilitators, counselors and principals
- Assists in the revision of special education forms and procedures.
- Perform other tasks as may be assigned by Supervisor/Superintendent.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
None
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to effectively manage professional staff and parents, counseling students with anxiety and depressive disorders, psychological assessments.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
Master’s Degree in progress; and at least six hours of Special Education course work and six hours of testing course work.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret educational periodicals, professional journals, educational procedures, or governmental laws and regulations. Ability to write reports, educational correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from administrators, faculty, parents and students.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers and decimals. Ability to draw and interpret bar graphs. Ability to formulate and interpret statistical data such as mean, mode, median, and standard deviation. Ability to apply determination of test reliability and validity analysis of variance correlation techniques, sampling theory factor analysis.
REASONING ABILITIES
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret and extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
Registered Educational Diagnostician or licensed specialist in school Psychology and/or nationally certified school Psychologist.
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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those and employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to travel within the district to multiple campuses. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. |