Teacher - Deaf AND Hard OF Hearing (Total Communication - High School Social Science)

About the Employer

Please use the link below to apply for this position. For Certificated classifications, please address all of your letters to Ms. Alyda Mir, Assistant Superintendent, Certificated Human Resources.

Job Summary

Job Summary

The DHH teacher provides specialized academic instruction for students, who have hearing loss and use American Sign Language to communicate. The DHH teacher will provide an educational program for individuals with exceptional needs who require intensive instruction and training in programs serving pupils in which disability is deafness or hearing impairment. These pupils exhibit hearing impairment that, even with correction, adversely affects educational performance.

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Requirements / Qualifications

• Valid California Deaf and Hard of Hearing or Communication Handicapped Credential with an EL Authorization. • Fluent in American Sign Language. • Teaching experience or student teaching experience in a Total Communication setting. • Knowledge of current educational trends, core, and alternative core curriculum and strategies for implementation as related to programs for students with hearing loss using American Sign Language to communicate. • Knowledge of state content standards and mandated tests (i.e., SBAC, CAA, ELPAC). • Knowledge of the IEP process and SEIS.

ALL applicants must apply at www.Edjoin.org. Current DUSD employees wishing to be considered for this position ONLY NEED TO UPLOAD a letter of interest emphasizing their experience and qualifications for the position, a current resume, and one letter of recommendation from a District administrator, which is less than one year old. APPLICATION DEADLINE: OPEN UNTIL FILLED All applicants will be screened, and the top candidates will receive interviews.

• Copy of Transcript

• Credential Copy

• Letter of Introduction

• Letter(s) of Recommendation (3 letters of recommendation no older than 1 year )

• Resume

Comments and Other Information

It shall be the policy of the Board of Education that students and employees in the Downey Unified School District shall not be subjected to discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on actual or perceived ancestry, age, color, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, immigration status, or association with a person or a group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics and shall not be excluded from participation in or denied the benefits of any program or activity, except as provided for by law or regulation. The Board of Education also requires that school personnel take immediate steps to intervene when it is safe to do so and when he or she witnesses an act of discrimination, harassment, intimidation or bullying.

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