Resource Specialist (RSP) Teacher, Stone Creek Elementary

About the Employer

The Golden Valley Way!

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Our school district excels above many others because our parents, teachers, staff, school board and community do a remarkable job of supporting our students and setting high expectations.

Our work here in Golden Valley Unified School District is centered on providing a curriculum-rich education that is driven by real-world and real-life experiences. We will continue to stress to our teachers and administrators the importance of our core values of providing a rigorous curriculum, making learning relevant to our students and developing positive relationships with our children; this is the Golden Valley Way.

We are blessed to be a part of a safe and caring professional learning community that values quality education, high expectations and a "yes, we can" attitude!

Our community expects us to prepare our students for the real-world. We understand, in order to accomplish this task, it truly takes a GVUSD community. We take this responsibility wholeheartedly and vow to bring our best day in and day out. Our children need to be able to compete globally and we are committed to being increasingly proactive in preparing students for challenges that do not yet exist. We must recognize the paradigm shifts in education and adjust our systems to properly and proactively address an ever changing society. Our past is not a prelude to our children's future.

We have set the highest standard of what we expect from our students and staff. Our students and staff will be respectful. Our students will represent themselves, their family and their school community with pride. Our students expect to be guided in this way. It is our duty to embrace this challenge and hold our student to the highest standard, especially when it comes to dress and grooming and behavior. We believe in addressing the "little" things each and every time, so they do not become "bigger" things. Our learning environments wil

Job Description / Essential Elements :

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Under general direction, provides instruction and services for those pupils whose needs have been identified in an individualized educational program developed by the individualized education program developed by the individualized education program team and who are assigned to regular classroom teachers for the majority of a school day.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITITES

• Consult with parents, regular classroom teacher and other specialists regarding students who have been admitted to the Resource Specialist Program.
• Assess students to determine present performance levels, learning styles and areas of disability.
• Prepare and maintain appropriate student records, files and reports.
• Assume primary responsibility for development and implementation of the Individualized Education Plan and the IEP team meeting.
• Provide instruction and services to students enrolled in the Resource Specialist Program.
• Coordinate special education services and regular classroom activities for students enrolled in the Resource Specialist Program.
• Plan and coordinate the work of instructional aides.
• Prepare schedules and timelines to implement educational activities.
• Evaluate and review pupils' academic and social progress.
• Maintain professional competence through participation in personnel development activities.
• Create a functional and attractive environment for learning.
• Provides appropriate inservice to site staff to enable them to be involved in implementing appropriate programs for assigned students.
• Provides information regarding education and services to parents.
• Other duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS / ABILITIES

QUALIFICATIONS

SUPERVISIONS EXERCISED

Instructional Aide and students

REPORTS TO AND EVALUATED BY

Principal

WORK YEAR ASSIGNMENT

186 DAYS

Requirements / Qualifications