SY Teacher Visually Impaired EDC SES

Position: 2026-2027 SY Teacher of the Visually Impaired EDC SES
SY Teacher of the Visually Impaired EDC SES

Position Type:

Student Support Services

Date Posted:

5/19/2026

Location:

EDC/Service for Exceptional Students

Closing Date:

Open until filled

Additional Information:
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Title:

Teacher of Visually Impaired

Classification:
Teacher Licensure Level I, II, III

Location:

EDC/Services for Exceptional Students

Work Hours:

7.5 hours per day 37.5 hours per week

Contract Length: 194 days

Salary:
Level I = $59,984

Level II = $71,982

Level III = $83,979

GMCS employees:
Current Transfer Request Form needs to be signed by supervisor and uploaded to your application.

Supervisor:
Director of Special Education

General

Job Description:

To provide in collaboration with the student's IEP team, consultation and/or direct services to students whose visual functioning interferes with educational performance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities - Essential duties may include, but are not limited to the following:

* Planning and Preparation

* Demonstrates knowledge of content

* Design of coherent instruction

* Setting Instructional Outcomes

* Demonstrating knowledge of resources

* Demonstrating knowledge of Students

* Designing of Student Assessment

* Creating an Environment for Learning

* Creating an environment of respect and rapport

* Organizing physical space within learning environment

* Establishing a culture for learning

* Managing classroom procedures

* Managing student behavior

* Teaching for Learning

* Communicating with students in a manner that is appropriate to their culture and level of development

* Using questioning and discussion techniques to support classroom discourse

* Engaging students in learning

* Assessment in instruction

* Demonstrating flexibility and responsiveness

* Professionalism

* Communicating with families

* Participating in a professional community

* Reflecting on teaching

* Demonstrating professionalism

* Growing and developing professionally

Additional

Duties and Responsibilities:

* Follow board policies and administrative rules and regulations

* Assist the district in making appropriate referrals for vision services.

* Review ophthalmologic reports, assess student's functional vision, media and mobility.

* Submit appropriate information and reports to determine educational impact.

* Participate as a district team member for all children whose visual impairment may impact their educational performance.

* Assess student's functional vision and prepare written reports with information for district use.

* Assist district personnel to develop individual student goals and objectives for Individual Education Program (IEP).

* Locates or provides the district with information to locate adaptive materials.

* Teach district personnel skills needed to instruct or assist visually impaired students.

* Provide direct services for pre-Braille readiness, Braille reading and writing, orientation and mobility instruction, and adaptive equipment instruction.

* Provide other vision services as deemed appropriate by the student's IEP.

* Maintain written records, secure updated ophthalmologists' evaluations and provide reports for each student assessed and/or served.

* Manage time appropriately

* Maintain accurate and complete records of grades and attendance as required by the school district

* Report progress or lack thereof to parents in a timely manner

* Attend and participate in faculty, professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops.

* Complete duties (hall, bus, etc.) as assigned

* Leave adequate preparations for a substitute

* Take precautions to protect equipment, materials, and facilities

* Actively and appropriately participates and collaborates in school teams/committees

* Support district initiatives

* Demonstrate public relations skills

* Use and apply appropriate conflict resolution skills

* Use diagnostic data to improve instructional programs

* Be available to parents, students, administration and peers outside the school day

* Attend and sponsor extracurricular activities

* Report suspected child abuse and neglect

* Complete Safe Schools training as directed by the District.

* Be responsible for students on field trips

* Act as a good role model within the context of the school

* Supervise educational assistants, practicum students, student teachers, and high school vocational lab/volunteer students

* Follow district and school procedures

* Accept other responsibilities as deemed necessary by the principal

Qualifications:

A BA degree, valid New Mexico teaching license with endorsements as needed. Certified/Licensed by the New Mexico Public Education Department to teach the Visually Impaired.

Physical Requirements:

Ability to perform the job and access the environment for which you are hired. The following may be required:
Sitting, standing, lifting, moving about the room or school, carrying (up to 50 pounds), reaching, squatting, kneeling, prolonged typing, physical ability to type on a keyboard terminal, and moving light furniture.

Equipment/Technology Handled:
Must know how to properly operate or be…