FACULTY MSD - Teacher

Introduction

Anticipated openings for the  School Year. Maryland School for the Deaf (MSD) is a diverse, bilingual community that partners with families to provide an equitable and exemplary education in a nurturing, engaging, and challenging environment to ensure our students achieve personal excellence and become lifelong learners.

MSD, Columbia Campus, 8169 Old Montgomery Road, Ellicott City, MD 21043

To develop and implement a bilingual educational program for Deaf students in a language‑accessible environment and to provide an enriched bicultural environment conducive to optimal social and emotional growth of Deaf students. To provide a language‑enriched environment through use of sign language and printed word to meet the varied needs of Deaf students.

• Assess and teach Deaf students, including implementation of Maryland’s state standards and development of IEPs.
• Create and maintain a classroom conducive to learning.
• Prepare and maintain weekly solid lesson plans based on student assessments and data, and teach lessons using the best practices of bilingual pedagogy and differentiated instruction.
• Design and make materials to facilitate student learning.
• Collect data and follow individualized planning.
• Develop IEPs and write quarterly progress reports; apply IEP accommodations and supplementary aids in teaching and assessments.
• Maintain a grade book, portfolios, unit plans, daily attendance, and emergency classroom lesson plans.
• Utilize effective classroom management for optimal learning, including managing student behavior, modeling appropriate behavior, and promoting self-control.

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Candidates must be eligible to apply for or be willing to obtain certification by the Maryland State Department of Education within a prescribed amount of time.
• Fluency in American Sign Language and written English required.
• Knowledge of Deaf culture, Deaf Education, students with additional disabilities, and ability to teach students at different levels and with varying educational and language acquisition backgrounds.

• Master's degree in Education or Special Education of Deaf students.
• Maryland State Department of Education Certification.

• New hires are subject to a criminal background investigation at their own expense.
• Candidates must provide three letters of recommendation with their application.

MSD is an equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting, retaining, and promoting employees who reflect the State's diversity, including individuals from traditionally underserved and underrepresented groups, bilingual applicants, and veterans.

Contractual employees who work for an agency covered under the State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program, have a current employment contract and work 30 or more hours a week (or on average 130 hours per month), may be eligible for subsidized health benefits coverage for themselves and their dependents. As a contractual employee, you will be responsible for paying 25% of the premiums for your medical and prescription coverage, including any eligible dependents you have enrolled.

The State of Maryland will subsidize the remaining 75% of the cost for these benefits. You can also elect to enroll in dental coverage, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, and life insurance, but will be responsible to pay the full premium for these benefits.

Leave may be granted to a contractual employee who has worked 120 days in a 12 month period. This leave accrues at a rate of one hour for every 30 hours worked, not to exceed 40 hours per calendar year.