JOB DESCRIPTION - TALENTED AND GIFTED PROGRAM TEACHER

JOB DESCRIPTION - TALENTED AND GIFTED PROGRAM TEACHER

po1400.07Adopted January 1, 2002Revised August 15, 2024

1400.07 - JOB DESCRIPTION – TALENTED AND GIFTED PROGRAM TEACHER

Reports to:                                    Principals

Employment Status:                     Regular/Full-time

Description: Assists school personnel in the identification, evaluation, and placement of gifted and talented children provides daily instruction to assigned gifted students, prepares daily instructional lessons, provides an environment that encourages creativity, questioning, research skills, and consults with regular classroom teachers on an informal basis

NOTE:  The below lists are not ranked in order of importance

Essential Functions:

  • Ensure safety of students
  • Teach and evaluate the students using sound instructional practices
  • Maintain accurate and complete records as required
  • Assists school personnel in the identification, evaluation, and placement of gifted and talented children
  • Make provisions for being available to students and parents for educationally related purposes before and after the instructional day
  • Create a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of students
  • Instruct assigned classes in the locations and at the times designated
  • Maintains student data and assists school personnel in reports to ODE
  • Assists school personnel in determining which students should be included in enrichment activities, provided with differential instruction, or accelerated in grade level or subject area
  • Develop a program of study that meets the individual needs, interests, and abilities of gifted and talented students
  • Elicits input from parents, teacher, school administration, and others involved in student program development
  • Participate in collaborative team teaching with cooperating teachers
  • Provide classroom teachers with resource information
  • Provide achievement and specialized testing when determined by the IAT
  • Attend meetings and in-services as required
  • Provide individualized tutoring sessions for students within the school day or after the school day as mutually agreed upon by staff and student
  • Coordinates activities for gifted and talented children which may include mentorships, advanced placement, the formation of special seminars, independent research, and other integrated curricular experiences
  • Plan collaboration schedules with regular classroom teachers
  • Make contact with the public with tact and diplomacy
  • Interact in a positive manner with staff, students, and parents
  • Refer attendance, health, and psychological emotional problems to the Principal and/or Guidance Counselor
  • Designs appropriate goals and objectives for students based on evaluations and staff and parent input; develops and implements individual Written Education Plans
  • Ensure that the WEP goals/objectives for students are met
  • Provide direct instruction in a resource/inclusion or tutorial setting
  • Provides consultation on appropriate materials and teaching strategies for use by classroom teachers in assisting gifted and talented students in the regular classroom
  • Develops schedules and lesson plans for classroom day allowing for a variety of activities and special events appropriate for the student
  • Promotes special programs and competitions which develop problem-solving skills, thinking skills, and those talents which have been identified
  • Provides in-service to parents, mentors, aides, teachers, administrators, and general education personnel regarding the education of gifted children
  • Communicates progress to parents and other school personnel
  • Assists in the development of educational evaluation and accountability procedures, curriculum and staff development, and instructional or classroom management strategies
  • Conducts preliminary and ongoing evaluations of student levels and needs through formal and informal means
  • Communicates to classroom teachers information necessary for student program implementation
  • Demonstrate regular and predictable attendance
  • Maintains proper certification
  • Supervises and disciplines students following the student discipline code
  • Requisitions supplies, textbooks, and equipment
  • Participates, cooperates, and helps supervise emergency preparedness drills (e.g., tornado, fire, etc.)
  • Provide guidance to students which will promote their welfare and their proper educational development
  • Ensure students are learning all subject material by testing or quizzing on a regular basis
  • Maintain and improve professional competence
  • Establish and maintain cooperative relationships with parents through effective use of interim reports, report cards, and conferences
  • Observe ethics of the teaching profession
  • Maintain respect at all times for confidential information, e.g., case history
  • Notify parents if student is not meeting classroom goals
  • Take all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, materials, and facilities
  • Demonstrate knowledge of subject matter and present clear, complete, and accurate explanations utilizing a variety of instructional techniques and media suitable to the level of learners
  • Implement strategies to accomplish individualized program goals
  • Regularly communicate with parents and administrators
  • Requisition needed supplies and materials
  • Provide career information and job training information to students
  • Utilize a wide variety of instructional aids, including technology, to teach objectives
  • Consult with regular classroom teacher concerning placement of potential students
  • Be available for scheduled and nonscheduled conferences with parents when possible
  • Prepare materials needed for student's instructional needs
  • Promote good public relations by personal appearance, attitude, and conversation
  • Attend parent/teacher conferences
  • Adapt curriculum and provide alternative teaching techniques and assessments to best enhance student learning
  • Administer and score various tests for evaluation and diagnostic purposes
  • Assist the administration in implementing all procedures and rules governing student life and conduct
  • Consult with regular education teacher concerning modifications, adaptations, or alternate assignments in regular education classrooms for gifted and talented students
  • Consult with regular education teachers concerning grading and evaluation of gifted and talented students
  • Attend professional growth seminars, workshops, etc.
  • Implement instructional strategies that incorporate content standards for subject matter area of expertise

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Respond to routine questions and requests in an appropriate manner
  • Perform bus duty, lunch duty, hall duty, gym duty, and playground duty as requested
  • Plan, schedule, and organize activities to meet individual student needs and activities to support the grade-level curriculum
  • Serve on committees and cocurricular activities as agreed upon
  • Supervise student teachers
  • Discipline students when necessary
  • Perform home visits when possible or as needed
  • Physically restrain students who are potentially dangerous to themselves or others
  • Conduct yearly surveys and evaluations if required and/or necessary
  • Serve as a role model for students
  • Attend educational field trips
  • Assist in the selection of textbooks, equipment, and other instructional materials
  • Write grants for equipment and monies to fund activities
  • Interact with other departments and school personnel when necessary
  • Supervise and guide teacher aides, college students, observers, etc., high school tutors, and volunteer tutors
  • Counsel, advise, encourage and motivate students
  • Serve as liaison with school personnel, parents, community members, universities and colleges, industry, business and cultural institutions, and other interested publics
  • Promotes public relations activities at the local, county, regional, and state levels
  • Arranges field trips that are needed for gifted programs
  • Plan classroom presentations for students as needed and requested. Schedules films and speakers for classroom teachers
  • Promotes suggested academic competitions
  • Continues to extend personal knowledge and to upgrade professional credentials in the area of gifted and talented education
  • Takes all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, materials, and facilities
  • Maintains an appropriate appearance
  • Perform other duties as assigned by the Building Principal

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) or equivalent from a four-year college or university
  • Appropriate State of Ohio certification/license with Gifted Endorsement
  • Criminal investigation clearance
  • Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Superintendent and/or Board of Education may find appropriate

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

  • Ability to work effectively with others
  • Ability to communicate ideas and directives clearly and effectively both orally and in writing
  • Effective, active listening skills
  • Organizational and problem-solving skills
  • Record keeping skills
  • Basic computer skills
  • Ability to operate school equipment
  • Ability to work in a team environment
  • Knowledge of academic area and teaching methodology
  • Skills that foster and facilitate learning and classroom management
  • Training in varied instructional design
  • Background/knowledge base in methodology and supervised practice
  • Knowledge of laws governing gifted education
  • Ability to assess needs and write WEPs that provide for those needs
  • Knowledge of special education state and federal guidelines

Equipment Operated:

  • Communications equipment
  • Technology equipment
  • School office equipment
  • Subject-specific equipment(e.g., lab equipment, graphing, calculators)
  • Fax machine

Additional Working Conditions:

  • Occasional interaction among unruly children
  • Occasional weekend/evening/summer work
  • Occasional exposure to blood, bodily fluids, and tissue
  • Occasional requirement to travel
  • Occasional operation of a vehicle in inclement weather conditions
  • Frequent repetitive hand motion, e.g., computer keyboard, typing, calculator, writing
  • Frequent requirements to stand, walk, sit, climb, balance, read, hear, and use color vision
  • Occasional requirement to lift and carry up to a maximum of 35 pounds
  • Occasional requirement to push and pull up to a maximum of 35 pounds
  • Occasional requirement to stoop and kneel
  • Occasional exposure to high heat index temperatures and low wind chill temperatures

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: In accordance with Board-issued contract.

**Southern Local School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, age, sex or disabilities.**

Southern Local School District Board of Education adoption date: 8/15/2024

The job description in no manner states or implies that these are the only duties and responsibilities to be performed by the position incumbent.  The incumbent will be required to follow the instructions and perform the duties required by the superintendent.

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