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Summary:
Will oversee the daily operations of an Itinerant Vision teacher and provide educational services to students districtwide. Will ensure 100% compliance in service delivery and evaluation. Will maintain a caseload of students.
Qualifications
Summary:
Will oversee the daily operations of an Itinerant Vision teacher and provide educational services to students districtwide. Will ensure 100% compliance in service delivery and evaluation. Will maintain a caseload of students.
- Teach district students who are visually impaired and modify instructions for these students.
- Assess district students to qualify them as visually impaired.
- Attend Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) meetings regarding students with visual impairments.
- Assist classroom teachers regarding curriculum and activities of the classroom that, as a direct result of the student's visual impairment, require adaptation or reinforcement for the student
- Obtain large print or Braille textbooks.
- Provide low vision aids and instructions for using such aids.
- Maintain contact with parents to assist them in the development of a realistic understanding of their child's abilities, progress, and future goals.
- Share resources and educational information with parents.
- Interpret specific eye conditions and results of functional vision assessments.
- Assist in making environmental modifications in the schools to accommodate visually impaired students.
- Share responsibility for ongoing assessment and program planning.
- Provide in-service training programs related to vision impairment when needed.
- Maintain knowledge of current issues and methodologies within the field through conventions, publications, and interaction with other professionals.
- May occasionally visit students' homes to provide special education and vision adaptations and modifications.
- Performs all other tasks and duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in a directly related field; valid Texas teacher certificate with required endorsements for subject and subject level assigned; TEA Certification in Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments (EC-12) or TEA Emergency Certification in Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments (EC-12).
- Demonstrated ability to assess the environmental modifications needed in schools to accommodate visually impaired students.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Braille.
- Demonstrated ability to interpret specific eye conditions and the results of functional vision assessments.
- Demonstrated organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills required to achieve the goals of the position.
- Bachelor's Degree in a directly related field; valid Texas teacher certificate with required endorsements or valid university deficiency plan for permit.
- Candidates holding a valid Texas teaching certificate in one content area and pursuing an additional certification for a Teacher of Students with
- Visual Impairments (TSVI) are eligible to apply for a TSVI position under an Emergency Permit, he or she must meet the following criteria (extracted from TAC Chapter 230, Subchapter F, Rule §230.77, Section (f)(2)(B)
- Must be able to drive and have personal transportation.
