Orange County Public Schools · 1 day ago
ED CAP SIGN LANG INTERPRETER II
Maitland, FL
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
2+ years expOrange County Public Schools is seeking an ED CAP SIGN LANG INTERPRETER II to facilitate communication for Deaf Hard of Hearing students. The role involves interpreting and captioning services in educational settings, ensuring students' participation and adherence to conduct.
EducationHigher EducationPrimary EducationSecondary Education
Responsibilities
Facilitates communication by providing interpreting and or captioning services in the educational setting for deaf and hard of hearing students, staff, and parents
Interprets and/or captions all auditory information (including film/video presentations) in a variety of settings including classroom, discipline office, assemblies, counseling, and others as they arise
Interprets and/or communicates for students engaged in extracurricular activities as assigned
Monitors activities and behavior of children during and in the absence of classroom teachers to ensure the physical and environmental safe keeping of students, as well as adherence to appropriate conduct and reports disciplinary concerns to the classroom teacher
Assists teachers by circulating within the classroom, providing interpreting assistance, and tutoring support to DHH student only under direct supervision of a certified teacher
Works with a certified teacher to adapt content and lessons to promote participation of deaf or hard of hearing students
During non-student contact time or when interpretation is not required researches sign concepts related to class subjects and content and assists in the preparation of instructional materials
Performs support tasks such as copying materials, laminating items, typing correspondence, filing paperwork, preparing classroom bulletin boards, classroom decorations, displays of student activities, and other classroom objectives
May be assigned monitoring duties as appropriate to the position, e.g., hallways, lunchroom, restrooms, and bus duty; ensures appropriate student conduct during these periods; escorts students to designated activity areas, e.g., music room, computer room, art classes, assemblies, etc
Responsible for keeping up to date on current technology, as job appropriate, being used by the school district
Participates in yearly professional development activities focused on the acquisition of new and up to date knowledge and skills in sign language interpreting to a minimum of 0.9 CEUs (as measured by RID)
Responsible for timely and accurate information they maintain as part of their job responsibilities
Qualification
Required
High school diploma or GED; supplemented by two (2) years progressively skilled interpreting experience for deaf or hard of hearing students, with demonstrated ability to effectively attend to the needs of deaf or hard of hearing school age children; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment (EIPA) level 3.3, or B.A. in sign language interpreting required
Ability to evaluate, audit, deduce, and/or assess data and/or information using established criteria
Ability to provide guidance, assistance, and/or interpretation to others on how to apply procedures and standards to specific situations
Ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of standard office equipment, perform hearing aid checks, and use appropriate communication equipment
Ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, advisory, and design data and information
Depending on school grade classroom of assignment, may require the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; may require ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may require ability to utilize principles of fractions and/or interpret graphs
Ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership
Ability to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution
Ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria
Tasks involve the ability to exert very moderate physical effort in light work, typically involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling, and which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (12-20 pounds)
Depending on the functional area of assignment, most tasks require visual perception and discrimination, or most tasks require oral communications ability, and/or most tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate sounds
Tasks are regularly performed without exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, animals/wildlife, toxic/poisonous agents, violence, disease, or pathogenic substances
Company
Orange County Public Schools
Orange County Public Schools is a urban district school.
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