Primary Function ISD’s Teachers of the Deaf provide services in support of Iowa School for the Deaf’s mission which is to prepare deaf and hard of hearing students from pre-school to age 21 for life as literate citizens who contribute to society.
Typical Duties and Responsibilities
Communicates regularly with parents.
Instructs deaf and hard of hearing students in a classroom setting, presenting lessons in a comprehensive and bilingual (ASL-English) manner and uses visual means to facilitate learning. Delivers personalized instruction to each student and encourages interactive learning.
Develops, implements, and maintains IEP protocols and goals.
Follow curriculum and develops lesson plans.
Evaluates and documents students’ progress. Maintains reports and grades.
Desirable Qualifications:
- Experience working with Deaf and hard of hearing students.
- Teaching license with subject area endorsement and deaf/hard-of-hearing endorsement.
Qualification:
- Completion of an Education degree and eligible to meet State of Iowa teacher licensure requirements.
- Must be proficient in ASL with a required level of Advanced.
Able to fingerspell wordsVocabulary limited to work-related signs, family members, numbers, colors, days of the week…etc.Able to sign short phrases in response to basic questions (e.g., Who are you? Where do you live?)Signing is done at a slow to moderate rate Needs frequent repetition and rephrasing of questions.Limited use of the grammatical structure of ASL
Fingerspelling is fluent, error free, and signed at a normal rate.Good knowledge of everyday sign language vocabulary.Able to sign 3-5 sentences on topics related to work and routine social topics.Signing is done at moderate to normal rate Needs few repetitions and rephrasing of questions.Fair to good use of grammatical structure of ASL
Able to read others’ fingerspelling at a normal rate. Broad vocabulary on a wide range of topics. Able to have conversations with spontaneous elaboration on a variety of work and social topics. Signing rate is similar to native ASL users with occasional mistakes that do not detract from the conversation. Good to excellent use of grammatical structure of ASL.
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