Special Education Associate Teacher/ Echo Center DHH Associate Teacher at Echo Horizon School

Job Description – Special Education/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Associate Teacher at Echo Horizon School POSITION SCOPE: The Echo Center Associate Teacher will collaborate with credentialed DHH (Echo Center) teachers to provide push-in/pull-out support to DHH students in a mainstream school setting. Echo Center is a full-inclusion program for deaf and hard of hearing students that is embedded within a general education private elementary school that serves PreK-6th grade students. Echo Center students wear hearing technology, such as hearing aids and cochlear implants, and use listening and spoken language to communicate and learn. The ideal candidate will: • Be an exceptional, caring adult who is willing to support best practices for the education of children with hearing loss and listening and spoken language development • Have strong organizational skills and follow through • Have strong social-emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills and the ability to teach and lead with empathy • Have strong written and verbal communication skills • Be an independent problem-solver • Take initiative and possess the ability to implement action • Be a reflective practitioner • Be an exemplary role model to students and faculty alike ESSENTIAL DUTIES: Responsibilities: • Work collaboratively with DHH and general education classroom teachers to support the implementation of effective techniques for mainstreaming deaf and hard of hearing children into the general education classroom • Provide push-in/pull-out support for student learning, working with DHH students to focus on lessons and complete assigned work, under the direction of a credentialed DHH teacher • Support the classroom management and student behavior using Responsive Classroom techniques • Facilitate small group learning with mixed students, such as vocabulary groups, literature and Math circles, and science discovery lab groups. • Assist with other classroom tasks, including preparation

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