Intervention Specialist - Gifted Education Facilitator / Professional Learning Specialist (PLS)

Douglas County School District•Grand Junction, CO

10d•Onsite

About The Position

This role serves as a dual-purpose position, encompassing both a Professional Learning Specialist (PLS) and a Gifted Education Specialist. As a PLS, the individual will act as a professional learning coordinator, mentor, coach, and facilitator, supporting the professional development of teachers under the direction of the Principal and/or Assistant Principal. This includes facilitating teacher induction, developing community relations, and coordinating professional development aligned with district standards. As a Gifted Education Specialist, the role involves collaborating with students, families, staff, and community partners to identify and support gifted learners, ensuring they reach their full potential. This includes providing direct and indirect support, developing strategies for gifted students, facilitating professional development specific to gifted education, and managing processes like gifted identification and the creation of Advanced Learning Plans (ALPs).

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree
CDE Teaching License
Coursework and experience in gifted identification, instructional practices, collaboration and planning, professional development, and service delivery models specific to high potential, advanced, and gifted learners is required.
Must be able and willing to obtain other certifications required for the position
Endorsement - Gifted Education - Colorado Department of Education
Teaching License - Colorado Department of Education

Nice To Haves

M.Ed. and/or Endorsement in Gifted Education, preferred.

Responsibilities

Facilitate team, school or feeder meetings to enhance shared responsibility.
Provide ongoing training to facilitate meaningful Learning Community Work.
Enhance dialogue opportunities while building professional community.
Facilitate the creation of a supportive, restorative, and inclusive building culture.
Coordinate, plan, implement and evaluate professional development aligned with DCSD PD Standards.
Arrange peer observations.
Lesson Study Design.
Facilitate and coordinate Professional Learning Communities.
Train mentors, department heads and teacher leaders.
Implement job embedded professional learning.
Evaluate and provide high quality resources.
Act as a liaison between district and site.
Lead school initiatives as a collaborative member of the Building Leadership Team.
Collaborate with leadership to build World Class Education opportunities for staff.
Work with principal to create Unified Improvement Plan and Professional Development Plan.
Backward Plan, implement, evaluate and support professional development.
Create personalized induction opportunities as a Site Mentor/Coach.
Provide support for inductees.
Offer ongoing mentoring of all teachers.
Model, co-teach, and Cognitive Coach teachers.
Create Differentiated Induction Plans for inductees.
Support staff in attaining goals.
Facilitate data analysis opportunities.
Act as a 21st Century Skills Leader.
Provide information and strategies to advocate for and support the learning and developmental differences of students with gifts and talents.
Participate in, develop, and facilitate continuing professional development to address specific needs of gifted education.
Promote ongoing self-understanding and self-awareness for students with gifts and talents.
Collaborate with gifted students, staff, administrators, and parents/families to develop understanding of cognitive, academic, and affective needs.
Facilitate and maintain accountability for the implementation of all rules and regulations pursuant to the ECEA for gifted education at a school/site.
Facilitate the Gifted Identification Process at the school/site.
Facilitate the creation and maintenance of Advanced Learning Plans (ALPs) for all identified gifted learners at the site.
Perform other related duties as assigned or requested.
Collaborate/consult with teachers and staff to design and implement instruction based on formal and informal assessments of student abilities, talents, interests, and needs.
Collaborate/consult with teachers and staff to differentiate instruction by teaching higher-level thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Recognize the learning and developmental differences of students with gifts and talents, promote ongoing self-understanding, awareness of their needs, and cognitive and affective growth of these students in school, home, and community settings to ensure specific student outcomes.
Identify and share learning resources that support higher level thinking skills in all areas for all students.
Provide targeted and intensive interventions for identified gifted learners through collaboration and co-teaching using various evidence and research based instructional methods and curriculum resources as necessary and appropriate.
Collaborate/consult with teachers and staff to use appropriate assessment information in instructional planning, implementation, and evaluation of student learning for all students.
Advise, encourage, and support gifted students to help ensure student achievement and growth as appropriate.