Educational Interpreter for the Hearing Impaired (4) - DCS

Montgomery-Public-Schools; Decatur (AL); On-site; USD 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Decatur City Schools is seeking an interpreter to assist in classrooms for deaf students, translating between ASL and written English under the supervision of a licensed teacher.

Applicants must have ALBIT eligibility, and a one-year certificate or equivalent; SCPI proficiency is required. The role includes one-on-one tutoring, staff instruction, and supervision during lunch and field trips.

Qualifications

• One year certificate from college or technical school, or three to six months related experience and/or training.
• At least a rating of intermediate or better on the sign communication proficiency interview (SCPI) Rating Scale.
• Appropriate credentials must be provided. ALBIT licensing required.

Responsibilities

• Provides manual interpretation of instruction and classroom directions for student(s) who are deaf.
• Interpret from spoken English to the IEP specified modality and from the IEP modality to the spoken language.
• Provides, under the supervision of a certified teacher, instruction to students who are deaf in American Sign Language and written English to enable understanding of concepts.
• Provides one-on-one assistance and tutoring to student(s).
• Participates in planning and in-service activities as appropriate.
• Helps supervise students during lunch periods, assemblies, and field trips and other activities.

Education

1-year certificate

SCPI Rating Scale

Job description

SUMMARY:

• Performs the following tasks in the classroom to assist teaching staff with the individualization of instruction.

  Only applicants permitted or licensed by Alabama Licensure Board for Interpreters and Translators (ALBIT) will be considered.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides manual interpretation of instruction and classroom directions for student(s) who are deaf.
• Interpret from spoken English to the IEP specified modality and from the IEP modality to the spoken language.
• Provides, under the supervision of a certified teacher, instruction to students who are deaf in American Sign Language and written English to enable the student to understand instructional concepts, language and activities of daily living.
• Provides one-on-one assistance and tutoring to student(s).
• Provides job coaching to students who are deaf as required.
• Assists other students as needs and time permit.
• Provides formal and informal instruction to other staff members in manual communication.
• Participates in planning and in-service activities as appropriate.
• Helps supervise students during lunch periods, assemblies, and field trips and other activities.
• Maintains high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students.
• Participates in professional development activities.
• Encourages communication and interaction between deaf/hard of hearing students and faculty, staff, students and others.
• Prepares for demanding course material as necessary for successful interpreting and/or transliterating.

NON-ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• One year certificate from college or technical school, or three to six months related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience. At least a rating of intermediate or better on the sign communication proficiency interview (SCPI) Rating Scale. Appropriate credentials must be provided. Only applicants permitted or licensed by Alabama Licensure Board for Interpreters and Translators (ALBIT) will be considered.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using who numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.

REASONING ABILITY:

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed written or oral instructions related, among other things, to core academic subjects at the high school level.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
• The employee frequently is required to stand and walk.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit, bend, stoop, squat, crouch, kneel, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee must routinely lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
• The employee must occasionally lift, push, pull and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions for short periods of time.

SALARY:

• Salary schedules are found on the main Decatur City Schools website, available here. (Please right-click and select Open in New Tab to view our salary schedules.)
• Listed below are items that may be necessary to complete your employment process in order to compute your annual salary. It is your responsibility to provide us with this requested information in order to receive your accurate salary.
• We need verification of previous public school teaching experience. Use the following information when requesting verification of experience from your past employment at other boards of education:
  • Within the state of Alabama, experience must be verified on Supplement EXP
  • Outside the state of Alabama, we must have a letter (on school district letterhead) or public school district form showing beginning and ending dates stating your years of service and position held while employed
  • Credit is awarded for public school experience only, private, parochial, or similar experience will not be accepted
  • Experience must be full time at least 50%-100% of the academic year
  • Transfer Sick Leave: If you have sick leave from another state school system or from another state of Alabama agency, you must have a Sick Leave Transfer form sent from your previous employer to our Human Resources department

Equal Opportunity Employer:

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

The Decatur City School System does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, disability, sex, religion, national origin, or age in its programs, activities, or employment and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The Title IX Coordinator for Decatur City Schools is responsible for handling inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies. The Title IX Coordinator can be reached by calling the Decatur City Board of Education at [phone].