JOB DESCRIPTION: Director of Special Education
JOB SUMMARY: Under the direction of the Superintendent supervises special education personnel and works to provide sound educational programs for children who cannot sufficiently benefit from regular classroom programs.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
1. Contributes to the development of the total district philosophy of education.
2. Assists in the adaptation of school policies to include special education needs.
3. Recommends policies and programs essential to the needs of exceptional children.
4. Keeps informed of all legal requirements governing special education.
5. Provides leadership in establishing new programs and developing improved understanding of existing programs.
6. Develops and initiates inservice to assist other educators in identifying exceptional children. Develop and implements child find strategies for all programs, especially the preschool.
7. Supervises and coordinates special education programs which include specially designed instruction for students who are eligible for special education services within the fourteen disability classifications specified in the Utah State Office of Education rules.
8. Evaluates existing programs as an ongoing responsibility, and recommends changes and additions a needed.
9. Establishes procedures for placement, evaluation, assignment, and re-appraisal of students with regard to the special education services program.
10. Develops procedures for referral, securing medial reports, psychological examination, and placement.
11. Supervises and coordinates home instruction for homebound or hospitalized students.
12. Determines tenure and recommends for promotion personnel serving in special education district-wide or in the preschool.
13. Serves as secondary evaluator with the school principal of all special education personnel working in specific schools.
14. Assists in recruitment, selection, and recommendation for hiring of any special education personnel.
15. Assumes responsibility for compiling, maintaining, and filing all reports, records, and other documents legally required or administratively useful.
16. Develops and maintains complete and cumulative individual records of all children receiving special services or enrolled in special classes.
17. Supervises preparation of attendance reports and similar data necessary to reimbursement of funds for special education population.
18. Writes grant applications when the opportunity or necessity requires it.
19. Coordinates with Transportation Supervisor for the transportation of all children placed in special classes.
20. Develops budget recommendations and provides expenditure control on established budgets for special education.
21. Keeps informed of the state of financial aid for special education.
22. Interprets the objectives and programs of the special education services to the Board, the administration, the staff, and the public at large.
23. Annually varies the permanent inventory of equipment purchased for special education.
24. Establishes special education procedures for requisitioning and ordering special education equipment and supplies.
25. Approves all supplies, materials, and texts used by special education personnel.
26. Evaluates on an ongoing basis, the total special education program, curriculum, procedures, and individual students' needs and achievements.
27. Makes recommendations on design, furnishings, equipment, and location of new special education facilities.
28. Consults with parents of students enrolled in the program.
29. Assumes responsibility for own professional growth and development; for keeping current with the literature, new research findings, and improved techniques; and for attending appropriate professional meetings and conventions.
MARGINAL FUNCTIONS*
1. Performs other job duties as required.
Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Necessary to Performance of Essential Functions:
1. Possess problem solving skills.
2. Establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, school staff, district staff, and patrons.
3. Communicates effectively.
4. Knowledge of State Core Curriculum and Board of Education adopted guidelines.
Required Education and Training for Essential Functions:
1. Valid Utah administrative license.