POSITION SCOPE:  

The Echo Center Associate Teacher will collaborate with credentialed DHH (Echo Center) teachers to provide push-in/pull-out support to DHH students in a mainstream school setting.

Echo Center is a full-inclusion program for deaf and hard of hearing students that is embedded within a general education private elementary school that serves PreK-6^th grade students. Echo Center students wear hearing technology, such as hearing aids and cochlear implants, and use listening and spoken language to communicate and learn.

The ideal candidate will:

• Be an exceptional, caring adult who is willing to support best practices for the education of children with hearing loss and listening and spoken language development
• Have strong organizational skills and follow through
• Have strong social-emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills and the ability to teach and lead with empathy
• Have strong written and verbal communication skills
• Be an independent problem-solver
• Take initiative and possess the ability to implement action
• Be a reflective practitioner
• Be an exemplary role model to students and faculty alike

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with DHH and general education classroom teachers to support the implementation of effective techniques for mainstreaming deaf and hard of hearing children into the general education classroom

• Provide push-in/pull-out support for student learning, working with DHH students to focus on lessons and complete assigned work, under the direction of a credentialed DHH teacher

• Support the classroom management and student behavior using Responsive Classroom techniques
• Facilitate small group learning with mixed students, such as vocabulary groups, literature and Math circles, and science discovery lab groups.  

• Assist with other classroom tasks, including preparation of materials, as requested by DHH Teachers
• Collaborate with the grade level team in the development of progress reports and IEPs
• Facilitate DHH student interactions with peers and adults
• Monitor DHH students’ hearing technology

• Attend weekly grade level teacher team meetings, DHH teacher meetings, and faculty meetings

• Assist proactively with playground supervision
• Substitute for DHH Teacher as needed

• Assist with carpool, lunch and recess duties?

Other duties as assigned by the Director of Echo Center or DHH Teacher