Bridgeton Public Schools
Job Description
Preschool Intervention and Referral Specialist
Position:
Learning Disability Teacher Consultant (LDTC)
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree required, Master’s Degree preferred.
- Certification in Teacher with Students with Disabilities or Teacher of the Handicapped, preferred.
- Valid NJ Certification as a Learning Disability Teacher Consultant (LDTC).
- Strong background and knowledge in early childhood education and development.
- Three to five years of experience teaching in general education programs and/or special education programs.
- Experience with IEPs and student support service.
- Required criminal history background check and proof of U.S. citizenship or legal resident alien status.
Reports to:
Supervisor of PK-2 and Building Principals
Responsibilities:
- Provide in class support to identified children to help reduce behaviors
that prohibit children from successfully participating in a regular
preschool setting.
- Apply strategies with all children to avoid making unwarranted referrals for special education.
- Provide intervention directly in the classroom during the child's typical daily activities including snack time.
- Integrate strategies for reaching children's IEP objectives into each child initiated and teacher planned activity.
- Consult with preschool intervention referral specialist team members, and classroom teachers in planning strategies; adopting teaching practices and making modifications that will assist the children in meeting the goals of the district and the Preschool Teaching and Learning Expectations: Standards of Quality.
- Assist teachers and preschool instructional coach with strategies for involving and educating families.
- Assess each identified child's progress within the context of the natural classroom environment using appropriate assessments. Share results with teachers, parents, and other relevant parties.
- Invite all children in the classroom to be participants when administering therapies to identified children.
- Model for the teacher and use the teachers' suggestions and lesson plans to help make the child's program part of the total classroom routine.
- Submit weekly schedules and lesson plans to the administrator in charge.
- Attend any and all meetings and/or conferences as directed by the administrative staff.
- Provide staff development to staff as requested.
- Perform other related duties as may be assigned by the Supervisor
of PK-2 and Building Principals.
Term of Employment:
10 months
Evaluation:
Job performance will be evaluated in accordance with Board of Education Policy.
10/2022