Early Childhood Special Educator

Position:Early Childhood Special Educator

Location: Douglas, WY

Job :215

# of Openings:1

“This institution is an equal opportunity provider”

Starting Pay With Qualifying BA: $39.02/hour

All duties will comply with all rules, regulations, and practices of the agency and its regulating authorities. WCFD standards, DFS licensing, NAEYC guidelines, Wyoming Division of Disabilities regulations, and WCFD policies. All employees will adhere to the mission, vision, values, policies, and procedures of WCFD.

• Coordinate referral/assessment process.
• Ensure that procedural safeguards are met and that advocacy information is provided to any family whose child will be screened, evaluated or provided services.
• Serve as a member of a multidisciplinary team as appropriate.
• Provides direct group and individual specialized instruction in a variety of settings and weather conditions to children including the classroom, private child cares and preschools and family homes.
• Implement an IFSP/IEP that promotes and supports a family’s capacities and competencies to identify, obtain, coordinate, monitor and evaluate resources and services to meet its needs.
• Support families through the early years after learning that their child has developmental delays or disabilities.
• Assist families in navigating complex service systems to find necessary resources on behalf of their child.
• Build the capacity of families and empower them to access services upon leaving WCFD birth to 6.
• Provide direct and indirect instructional support to children in a positive environment.
• Employ special educational strategies and a variety of techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition and memory.
• Teach socially acceptable behavior, as determined by the children’s’ individualized family service plans (IFSPs) and individualized education programs (IEPs), by employing techniques in an overall positive behavioral support system.
• Modify the general education curriculum for children with disabilities based upon a variety of instructional techniques and technologies.
• Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration and work time that provides children with opportunities to observe, question and investigate.
• Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining an environment conducive to learning for all children.
• Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers and other professionals to develop individualized family service plans (IFSP) individualized education programs (IEP) designed to promote children’s educational, physical and social/emotional development.
• Maintain accurate and complete student records and prepare reports on children and activities, as required by laws, district policies and administrative regulations.
• Assist in collection of data for providing appropriate classroom interventions.
• Assist in preparation of data for local, state, and federal reports.
• Participate in meetings with the program staff for the purpose of feedback, evaluation, modification and progress of the enrolled children of the program.
• Provide training to staff and parents on techniques and procedures to use with a specific disability as related to a child enrolled in the program or therapy only.
• Communicate effectively with staff, children and families.
• Recruit children and families for program enrollment in accordance with the guidelines established by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Head Start and WCFD.
• Perform other related duties as assigned by the Board or its designee.
• Able to perform the essential functions of the position, as defined in the job description, without presenting a danger to either self or others, with or without reasonable accommodations.
• Must have an employment physical and TB risk assessment prior to working with children.
• Must have AHA CPR and First Aid Training completed within 90 days, unless otherwise specified by the supervisor.
• Wyoming Child and Family Development, Inc. requires all prospective employees to participate in a…