Locations:     
Erie 1 BOCES
Special Education Services
E1B Education Campus
West Seneca, NY

Assignment:
Itinerant

Annual Salary:
$46,138 to $55,856 Based on certification and experience*

Benefits Package: Employment - Erie 1 BOCES

Hours:        
7:15 AM - 2:45 PM

Provide vision services based on students' IEP mandates. Complete re-evaluations and evaluations as needed. Work collaboratively with the education team to ensure the students' needs are being addressed. Complete required documentation, case notes, annual reviews, session logs and session plans.

Specific Duties:

1. Assesses students, both informally and formally, in order to provide an individualized classroom program.

2. Designs plans and appropriate activities to reach individual pupil IE.P.'s.

3. Provides an individualized education program for visually impaired students consistent with state education mandates and the program's goals and requirements.

4. Establishes a classroom environment that provides for the student's social/emotional and behavioral needs as well as academic needs including specific systems of motivation to students.

5. Assists and counsels’ students in making realistic assessments of their abilities in establishing educational and/or career goals.

6. Keeps attendance records and other reports/records pertinent to the program.

7. Provides, when warranted, continuous consultation and/or management outside of the classroom to appropriate personnel.

8. Provides assistance to students with regular class assignments.

9. Assists in screening, evaluating, and recommending placement of students in the school's program.

10. Works cooperatively with regular classroom teachers and staff who have students with disabilities interpreting their abilities, disabilities, and meeting the individual needs of the student.

11. Assists other professional staff members in identifying, recommending, and resolving psychological or disciplinary actions unique to the student.

12. Confers frequently with parents, professional staff members, building level social/emotional, psychological, behavioral, and intellectual potential.

13. When appropriate, coordinates and supervises work experience and on-campus job training programs involving students with disabilities.

14. Participates, when appropriate, in continuous professional growth and development related to the field of teaching and/or specific area(s) of expertise.