Homebound Instructional Teacher

Homebound Instructional Teacher

Community Consolidated School District 89 is seeking a homebound instructional teacher. Qualifications include meeting Illinois State Board of Education requirements, including a PEL with ELEM (K-9), SCGE (K-9), and an LBS1 IS A MUST. The director of student services will coordinate homebound instruction services. Under the direction of the building principal, the homebound instruction teacher will provide an instructional program in the home or another agreed upon location when there is evidence that a student will be out of school for a period of two weeks or longer due to a medical condition certified by a physician's statement.

For special education students, services shall be provided in accordance with the student's IEP. The homebound instruction program is to be a continuation of the student's regular school program. The principal is responsible to see that the district instructional program is being implemented.

Responsibilities include cooperating with the building principal of the school and the student's regular teacher in the following ways: books, instructional materials, lesson plans, quizzes and tests, will be supplied by the student's classroom teacher(s). The homebound instruction teacher will communicate at regular intervals with the regular class teacher regarding student progress. The services of the homebound instruction teacher will be coordinated through the director of student services.

The homebound instruction teacher will keep an accurate record of time spent with each student, provide a weekly evaluation of student progress, including material covered, report any major concerns regarding the health status and/or cooperation of the student to the building principal, inform the building principal and the director of student services of any changes of schedule in homebound instruction services, and submit to the director of student services a weekly report of activities and a weekly timesheet.