School Psychologist

Qualifications

Professional Educator License:
Type 73 Certification Endorsement, Licensed in Illinois, Master's Degree in an NASP-approved Specialist in School Psychology

ISECC Executive Director of Special Education and Building Principal

The School Psychologist understands the philosophical, historical, and legal foundations of special education. The School Psychologist understands how students differ in their approaches to learning; creates learning/skill building opportunities that are adapted to diverse learners; understands planning; and designs services based on knowledge of the discipline, student, community, and curriculum goals; of all students ages three through twenty-two.

• Demonstrates knowledge of current federal and state legislation, regulations, policies, litigation, and ethical issues related to the provision of educational services, including least restrictive environment, due process, assessment, discipline, transition, supplemental services and supports, specialized healthcare and assistive technology, to individuals with all types of disabilities across the age range.
• Demonstrates extensive skill and knowledge in the area of School Psychology, maintaining extensive knowledge of principles, theories, methods of practice, with application within the educational setting, holding necessary certificate or license.
• Understands issues in definition and identification procedures for individuals with disabilities, including those from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds.
• Seeks additional knowledge of the continuum of services to best meet student needs while actively participating in problem solving to support the development of appropriate placement recommendations.
• Prepares and utilizes assessment methodologies that have been adapted for individual students as appropriate including physical/emotional/social/behavioral adaptations to meet a student's individual needs, incorporating multiple sources of evidence and clear recommendations for improving services on an on-going basis.
• Demonstrates utilization of a wide range of psychological protocols/instruments to evaluate students and can identify when appropriate to use.
• Seeks and maintains specialized knowledge or skills in understanding/interpreting/using data in educational decision making to have positive student-based outcomes within the educational setting.

The School Psychologist understands the central concepts and methods of inquiry; uses a variety of assessment strategies to develop and encourage students' development of academic, interventional, behavioral, and social-emotional performance skills. The School Psychologist understands the educational assessment process and uses various assessment strategies to support the continuous development of all students ages three through twenty-one.

• Understands characteristics of individuals with disabilities across the age range, including levels of severity and multiple disabilities and their influence on development, behavior and learning; with knowledge about the impact of language disorders, processing deficits, intellectual cognitive abilities, behavioral/emotional/social disorders, and physical (including sensory) disabilities on learning and behavior.
• Implements strategies to develop a longitudinal, outcome-based curriculum with the identification of priorities, including social, language, academic and vocational skills across life skill domains (i.e., domestic, recreation/leisure, vocational, and community). Proactively secures the necessary permissions and communicates to parents in a highly responsive manner; including those associated with individuals from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds.
• Utilizes assessment as an educational process and how to analyze/interpret information obtained from standardized tests including age/grade scores, standard scores, percentile ranks, stanine measures of central tendency, standard deviations, and standard error of measurement. Inclusive of using data measures in the development and…