Position: Intervention Specialist (Cross Categorical) 
Reports to: Principal and Assistant(s)
Employment Status: Regular/Full-time
Status: Certified
Contract Days: 185 
             
Description: 

We are looking for an intervention Specialist to assist us with designing and implementing individualized programs for children with special educational and social adjustment needs. The intervention specialist will consider demographic factors, developmental level, and health status when making recommendations. You will create and maintain records of progress, and collaborate with parents to refer children to psychologists and other therapists.  In addition to teaching the appropriate course of study following the state standards for each subject area using a variety of instructional techniques that meet individual learning styles.  

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

• Provide services and accommodations to students identified with a disability
• Assist in coordinating the special education program for all students with disabilities in the school district
• Assist in implementation of federal law and Ohio rules for educating students with disabilities
• Administer contract services for children
• Implement and document data for individual student IEP's
• Develop IEP's for children; assist in scheduling IEP conferences
• Provide classroom teachers with resource information
• Coordinate activities between the school district and outside agencies
• Work with regular classroom teachers co-teaching in an inclusion setting
• Prepare local, state and federal reports relative to areas of special education and pupil personnel services
• Serve as a member of IAT and IEP teams as required
• Attend IEP conferences
• Consult with regular education teacher concerning modifications, adaptations or alternate assignments in regular education classroom for special education students
• Ensure record keeping tasks and individual records of all children recommended to receive special education services or those enrolled in special education entitled to a free appropriate public education
• Remain in compliance with dates required
• Analyze data to create and implement behavior intervention plans
• Adhere to rules and regulations regarding programs that relate to special education
• Utilize RtI to meet the needs of all students
• Evaluate test scores to monitor progress of students
• Compile and maintain an accurate inventory of special education materials
• Represent the district at local, state and regional activities/committees as agreed to
• Maintain respect at all times for confidential information, e.g., student IEP's, testing information, student and staff information
• Ensure that the IEP goals/objectives for students are met
• Facilitate communication with families and staff
• 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
• Consult with regular classroom teacher concerning placement of potential students
• Adapt curriculum and provide alternative teaching techniques and assessments to best enhance student learning

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain and improve professional competence by attending professional seminars, workshops, etc. to keep current on relevant issues
• Support school, enforce school rules and policies
• Participate on building level teams and/or teacher based teams and/or district level "teams"
• Organize various subject specific programs within assigned building
• Work closely with administrators as part of development teams to discuss and implement new practices such as  "team" teaching, semester projects, etc.
• Act as department chairperson when requested and agreed upon
• Serve as a role model for students
• Assist in the selection of textbooks, equipment, and other instructional materials
• Serve on committees and co-curricular activities as agreed upon
• Supervise student teachers
• Discipline students when necessary following the district PBIS model
• Respond to routine questions and requests in a timely, appropriate manner
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Building Principal, Assistant or Special Education Director 

 
Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (B.A.) or equivalent from a four-year college or university
• Less than one year related experience
• Appropriate State of Ohio certification/license
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Superintendent and/or Board of Education may find appropriate

 
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of academic area and various teaching methodologies
• 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
• Training in varied instructional designs
• Skills that foster and facilitate learning and classroom management
• Knowledge in child development and an understanding of age appropriate tasks
• Educational pedagogy
• Student/teacher professional relationship
• Technology skills eg.  electronic grades, moodle
• Basic first aid

 Additional Working Conditions: 

• Occasional evening/weekend/summer work
• Occasionally lift, carry, push and pull various items up to a maximum of 50 pounds, e.g., classroom materials and supplies
• Frequent requirement to sit, stand, walk, hear, see, read, crouch, kneel, balance and stoop
• Possible requirement to travel
• Occasional exposure to high heat index temperatures and low wind chill temperatures

About Our District:

The Garfield Heights City Schools collaboratively and cooperatively serve students and families of the City of Garfield Heights. Located in Cuyahoga County and bordered on the north by the City of Cleveland proper, and on all other sides by the first ring communities of Northeast Ohio. Our District proudly serves approximately 3,500 students in three Kindergarten through Grade 5 schools, one middle school, and one high school. The district also provides an award-winning Preschool program to educate the youngest students in our community at William Foster Elementary. All those who seek academic, co-curricular, student leadership, diversity, and community engagement success, can find these things and more in the Garfield Heights City Schools.

As a product of our community-based strategic planning process completed in 2021, our district's mission is: As the heart of the community, Garfield Heights City Schools fully prepares students to pursue their dreams and give back as engaged citizens and future leaders. Our vision is: to become a premier educational institution, recognized throughout Ohio as fully preparing students to be leaders equipped with real-world skills to contribute to a global society.

The Garfield Heights City School prides itself on providing a rigorous and comprehensive pre-k through 12th-grade educational curriculum that clearly focuses on student success through college and career readiness. To that end, Garfield Heights High School offers a variety of Advanced Placement courses, including AP English, AP Government, AP American History, Honors Chemistry, Honors Calculus, Honors Physical Science, and more. While the District offers these high-level academic courses, the GHCS also proudly sends more than 225 students on an annual basis to the Cuyahoga Valley Career Center for those individuals deeply interested in learning a skilled profession or hands-on expertise in one of the trades. Middle School students have increasingly greater opportunities to prepare themselves for high school and parents are readily encouraged to be involved. Elementary School students in the GHCS also participate in such valuable literacy programs as LETRs and social/emotional initiatives as the Zones of Regulation. The GHCS places a great deal of emphasis at all levels of education on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (P.B.I.S.) and each school has won awards from the State of Ohio for encouraging and promoting positive behavior.

A wide variety of co-curricular offerings are available to students of all ages in the Garfield Heights City Schools as well. Such opportunities include more than 18 varsity sports, the district's show choir, Music Express, Marching Band, Theater, A ?Capella Choir, National Honor Society, Student Council, Glass Ceiling, Future Engineers, and more. These co-curricular offerings are award-winning on the state, regional and local levels. Students can expect success when they become involved in the various academic, co-curricular, and student leadership organizations in this District.

Garfield Heights City Schools is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, genetic information, race, color, age, religion, disabilities, military status, sexual orientation, or national origin in its programs and activities, including employment opportunities. 

Application Deadline: Until position has been filled.

To Apply: On-line