EC Spoken Language Facilitator

Position Title: Exceptional Children Spoken Language Facilitator

Term of Employment: 10 Month. full time, full benefits

Reports To: Director of Exceptional Children Program

Pay Information:  Salary Grade: 56; Non-Exempt

General Statement of Job

The employee in this position provides support to students who have verbal language needs to meet IEP goals and have success in the general curriculum.

Essential Job Functions

• Facilitate communication between assigned student and peers, the classroom teacher, and other school personnel.
• Focus on linguistic input conducive to language learning by: modeling speech and language skills/stimulating verbal interactions/assuming roles for language input.
• Demonstrate proficient knowledge of language facilitation strategies for the classroom.
• Encourage emergent literacy skills (symbol and word relationships, print awareness, name recognition, rhyming, etc.).
• Provide high-quality input of passive and active messages in diverse context and interactions.
• Deliberate use of words, grammar, and sounds commensurate with the student’s level to stimulate language development.
• Provide repetition of important linguistic concepts and repetitive input of targets.
• Monitor student’s comprehension and document needs, and problems encountered and report to the appropriate staff.
• Oversees daily maintenance and use of devices and performs simple troubleshooting as needed.
• Actively participate in the teaching process by modifying instruction and tasks when appropriate, provide demonstrations, manipulatives (sentence frames, visual demonstrations, etc.) as needed to enhance understanding.
• Delivery of Language Facilitation services in accordance with each individual student’s IEP              
• Travel between school locations, as necessary.
• Written check-in/check-out at each school, according to each school’s procedures.
• The Spoken Language Facilitator is not responsible for behavior management or physical restraint.
• Performs other duties as deemed appropriate and assigned by the supervisor

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Willingness and ability to learn new skills.
• Ability to display calmness, patience, and firmness in managing problem behavior.
• Ability to accept and follow the direction of students’ IEP.
• Ability to show respect for all students, regardless of abilities or needs
• Dependability and promptness.

Minimum Training and Experience

• Associates degree or equivalent required hours
• Completion of NC DPI Spoken Language Facilitation Canvas Course (or willing to complete asap)

Minimum Qualifications or Standards Required to Perform Essential Job Functions

Physical Requirements: 

• This work requires the occasional exertion of up to 10 pounds of force.
• Work regularly requires speaking or hearing, using hands to finger, handle or feel and repetitive motions, frequently requires sitting and occasionally requires standing, walking, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, reaching with hands and arms, pushing or pulling and lifting.
• Work has standard vision requirements.
• Vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word.
• Hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels.
• Work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, operating machines, operating motor vehicles or equipment and observing general surroundings and activities.
• Work occasionally requires exposure to outdoor weather conditions.
• Work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic).

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things. 

Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving instructions, assignments or directions to subordinates or assistants. 

Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, statements, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, evaluations, statements, etc., using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style. Requires the ability to speak before groups of people with poise, voice control and confidence. 

Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables. 

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in standard English. 

Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of descriptive statistics and statistical inference. 

Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape. 

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment. 

Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination. CAREER DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR 4 GCS, 10/2011 

Color Discrimination: Does not require the ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color. 

Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations. 

Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. 

Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear.) Must be able to communicate via telephone.

Disclaimer

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this job.