Reports To: Executive Director of Elementary Curriculum and Programs & Building Principal

Qualifications: 

• Valid Michigan Teaching Certification OR Full approval as a State of Michigan School Psychologist, Social Worker, or Counselor
• Knowledge of function-based intervention planning for developing behavior change strategies that focus on reducing problem behavior and increasing more appropriate behavior.
• Knowledge in using assessment and assessment data to inform instruction and prescribe work plans for individual students.
• Knowledge in research based instructional strategies and ability to implement them effectively.
• Knowledge in the use of technology to support instruction and behavior interventions.
• Demonstrate ability to plan and evaluate strategies for improving instruction and student behavior.
• Understanding personality development and the assessment of human behavior. Demonstrated ability to establish positive working relationships with all stakeholders. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Description:

• Assist staff in defining and measuring behavior; understanding principles of reinforcement; teaching new behavior; implementing strategies for weakening behavior; and identifying antecedents.
• Facilitate team meetings that incorporate a multitiered system of support to design behavioral interventions to address classroom organization, effective instruction, social skills, and ethical issues; School-wide Positive Behavioral Support; and factors that affect effectiveness including social validity and treatment integrity.
• Work with individual teachers, groups of teachers and/or the entire staff on issues such as: crisis intervention, learning and collaboration issues, and factors that can affect development and implementation of interventions.
• Promote highly specialized positive behavior interventions.
• Use ongoing assessments to maintain a record of student progress.

• Provide recognition of a variety of student accomplishments and positive behaviors.
• Work cooperatively with building administrators to promote positive student behavior by providing professional development that targets research, strategies, and modeling of instructional practices to support teachers in their implementation of positive behavior support in their classrooms.
• Engage in on-going professional development to increase knowledge and skills of positive student behavior support for all students, targeted students and students who represent sub-group populations.
• Engage parents in the student behavior intervention plan process and empower parents by providing them with skills and techniques to support the positive behavior development of their child.
• Maintain confidentiality and comply with all pertinent federal, state and district regulations and policies. 
• Attending School Support Team Meetings, Individual Education Plan Meetings, and other student focused team meetings as necessary or directed by the supervisor.
• Complete other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Applicants must apply online at https://uticak12.tedk12.com/hire/index.aspx. Please scan and upload applicable letters of introduction, resume, transcripts, credentials, letters of recommendation, and certificates to your online application. Any questions may be directed via phone at 586.797.1130.

NONDISCRIMINATION It is the policy of the Utica Community Schools that no person on the basis of race, color, religion, nation origin or ancestry, age, sex, marital status or handicap shall be discriminated against, excluded from participation in, denied the benefits of or otherwise be subjected to discrimination by this educational agency.