Ex Ed Teacher of the Gifted

Hamilton County Schools•Chattanooga, TN

About The Position

Hamilton County Schools, located in Chattanooga, TN, is working to ensure that all students thrive and experience a future without limits. We are committed to excellence for every student and are seeking outstanding leaders, teachers, support staff, and district employees who desire to make a difference in the lives of students. With nearly 75 schools, we are confident that you can find your place in Hamilton County. Learn more about working for Hamilton County Schools at careers.hcde.org and get to know us and our strategic plan, Opportunity 2030. Exceptional Education Itinerant Gifted Teacher: Experience teaching intellectually gifted students. Willing to participate in and knowledgeable about the assessment process for intellectually gifted students, including experience with the administration and interpretation of standardized and curriculum-based educational assessments. Understand and be able to work with the Intellectually Gifted Assessment Scoring Grid. Have a clear understanding of the identification of “at risk” populations and the assessment alternatives that are appropriate when assessing a student who has been identified “at risk”. This is an itinerant / district-wide position. Schools and base will be assigned following hire. Classroom Culture: Build a safe and productive classroom culture. Positive relationships are evident, procedures are clear, and the classroom is safe and secure for learning to unfold. Student and teacher interactions promote a growth mindset. Family & Community: Develop strong relationships with students’ families while diligently informing parents of expectations, positive news, and/or concerns. Provide opportunities for parents to be involved in their children’s learning. Willingness to collaborate in building a strong school community and to foster a collaborative relationship with content area or grade level teachers, administrators, students, parents, and other stake holders. Professional Responsibilities: Actively participates in system-wide professional developments offered by exceptional education and learning community with colleagues in order to improve teaching and student learning. Reflect on instruction and leadership while contributing ideas, expertise, and time to the mission and goals of the school. Knowledge of IDEA, current state special education rules and regulations, and compliance issues relative to programming, assessment and procedural safeguards for students with disabilities.

Requirements

Must be able to write and implement instructional appropriate IEP’s leading to positive outcomes for intellectually gifted students and facilitate IEP meetings.
Ability to design/write and implement transition programming for students with mild to moderate disabilities.
Experience with administration and interpretation of standardized assessments and alternative assessments.
Good organizational skills; good communication skills to facilitate teaching, assessment, meeting and data management responsibilities such as Easy IEP.
Possess good technology skills to facilitate implementation of academic and/or behavior intervention programs and working with a wide variety of technology platforms.
A knowledge and understanding of the cognitive, social, and emotional characteristics and needs of intellectually gifted students from diverse populations.
A knowledge of and access to advanced content and ideas and appropriate activities and opportunities.
Conduct ongoing data collection on all IEP goals/objectives as indicated in the wording of each IEP goal, but at minimum 1 data point per goal per week. Place a copy of the data collection in the student’s special education file prior to each quarterly progress report. Use the collected data to complete Progress Monitoring Data Points in EasyIEP and to complete the quarterly progress reports that are sent home to parents/guardians.
Case managers and service providers will use the EasyIEP Progress Monitoring Wizard to graph at least 3 data points per goal per each nine week grading period. (The only exceptions to using the EasyIEP Progress Monitoring Graphs are Speech Language Personnel, OTs, PTx, and Audiologists who use Stellar Docs for Progress Monitoring. It is understood that service personnel using Stellar Docs will also enter data on quarterly progress reports.)

Responsibilities

Experience teaching intellectually gifted students.
Willing to participate in and knowledgeable about the assessment process for intellectually gifted students, including experience with the administration and interpretation of standardized and curriculum-based educational assessments.
Understand and be able to work with the Intellectually Gifted Assessment Scoring Grid.
Have a clear understanding of the identification of “at risk” populations and the assessment alternatives that are appropriate when assessing a student who has been identified “at risk”.
Build a safe and productive classroom culture.
Develop strong relationships with students’ families while diligently informing parents of expectations, positive news, and/or concerns.
Provide opportunities for parents to be involved in their children’s learning.
Actively participates in system-wide professional developments offered by exceptional education and learning community with colleagues in order to improve teaching and student learning.
Reflect on instruction and leadership while contributing ideas, expertise, and time to the mission and goals of the school.
Knowledge of IDEA, current state special education rules and regulations, and compliance issues relative to programming, assessment and procedural safeguards for students with disabilities.