780 GRANT STREET

Central

Traditional 186 work days per year - DCTA/PROTECH

FTE: 1.000000

Salary: Click for more information on compensation for these roles.

Please note: You must submit all relevant documentation via onboarding before the deadline (15 days after receiving your offer letter) for salary setting purposes.

**Please note: This is a continuous job posting seeking multiple candidates for positions available throughout the 2024-2025 school year. Interested applicants must apply online by visiting the Denver Public Schools job board at careers.dpsk12.org.**

About this job:

Teachers of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing are part of an Itinerant Team of teachers. This team is then responsible for supporting students in their neighborhood schools or other Center Based Programs (ITOD), or can be assigned to our Center Deaf/Hard of Hearing Programs (CTOD). This is based on student and staffing needs.

Essential Functions and Objectives:

• Provides direct instruction to students with hearing loss or auditory difficulties in settings that provide a continuum of services from self-contained instruction to full inclusion in the regular classroom. Creates and makes available to students an environment where their language needs are central and essential to a free and appropriate education.
• Provides various support and conducts activities related to logistics, reporting, training, communications, and processes. Participates in the planning and implementation of new initiatives.
• Assesses and troubleshoots escalated problems and applies expert understanding to resolve complex challenges of stakeholders; focuses on root cause identification in order to achieve systemic and sustainable improvement. Approves and documents exceptions for compliance record keeping and reporting.
• Ensures appropriate key stakeholder involvement in planning, goal-setting, and implementation to achieve buy-in of work products. Ensures purposeful, positive and professional interactions and relationships with all stakeholders; enables consistent application of work products across the district.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement, prioritizes, and recommends solutions to management. Implements approved enhancements to ensure consistency across the district. Identifies opportunities to reduce costs; analyzes available data, trends, and feedback, and ensures compliance with expectations for optimal operation and goal achievement.
• Collaborates with and supports the needs of students, staff, and families by fostering an understanding of hearing loss.
• Implements instructional strategies emphasizing speech development and auditory training; manual methods of communication (ie: ASL); provides a continuum of evidence-based intervention strategies and services to improve students' auditory access, listening and spoken language and/or manual communication abilities, and academic achievement.
• Develops and executes individualized lesson plans in all subject areas, providing for direct instruction while maintaining a focus on District standards and benchmarks; establishes and communicates to students clear objectives for lessons, units, and projects; and instructs students individually and in groups, adapting teaching methods and instructional materials to meet varying needs and interests.
• Administers and interprets both formal and informal individualized educational assessments; develops and maintains Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) for identified students.
• Counsels students to encourage and support student achievement.
• Monitors, supervises, and enforces rule of conduct and behavior of assigned students; reinforces positive student behaviors in accordance with school and District policy.
• Observes, evaluates, and records student performance, behavior, social development, and physical health and prepares student, attendance, and activity reports as required by administrators.
• Prepares, administers, assigns, and grades tests and assignments to evaluate student progress, reporting grades using District software.
• Assists hearing disabled students with use of hearing aids, cochlear implants, and/or assistive listening technology in collaboration with District audiologists; maintains assistive listening devices and troubleshoots when problems occur.
• Mentors educational interpreters and tutor-note takers and assists in hiring, supervising, and evaluating educational interpreters and tutor-note takers.
• Evaluates the impact hearing loss has in the educational setting through the use of appropriate assessments; interprets audiometric results.

What You’ll Need:

• Master’s or higher degree from a regionally accredited institution in special education deaf/hard-of-hearing or its equivalent, and completion of an approved program from a regionally accredited institution for special education specialists: deaf/hard-of-hearing that includes prescribed field experience requirements.
• If you are currently enrolled in a MA program, or would be willing to enroll in an MA program we will still consider you for candidacy.
• Have a valid (CDE) teaching license. Click for additional information regarding specific requirements and qualifications for the various subject areas (DPS does accept a CDE Application Receipt for 90 days.)
• Lead for racial and educational excellence and work to dismantle systems of oppression and inequity in our community, along with believing in and supporting all students so they feel seen and heard with access to high quality education.
• Live and work with a permanent home address in Colorado while working with us.
• Have the ability with or without accommodations to meet the of the position.

What DPS Offers You:

• A Culture that values Equity, Accountability, Integrity, Collaboration and Fun with a shared vision that Every Student Will Succeed.
• Competitive Teacher Compensation and Procomp Incentive plan, click for the DCTA Teacher and SSP Salary Schedule. Click for more information on compensation for these roles. Please note: You must submit all relevant documentation via onboarding before the deadline (15 days after receiving your offer letter) for salary setting purposes.
• In addition to competitive compensation, DPS has other Total Reward offerings such as; , , and .

Denver Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender expression, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), political affiliation, military service, or any other status protected by law or regulations. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $59,472.00 - $107,953.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• No nights
• No weekends

Work setting:

• Charter school
• In-person
• Public school
• Special education school

Application Question(s):

• Do you currently possess a Masters Degree or higher?

If you are currently enrolled in a MA program, or would be willing to enroll in an MA program, we will still consider you for candidacy.

License/Certification:

• CDE Teaching License (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Denver, CO 80203 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Denver, CO 80203: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person