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About the Employer
Stockton Unified School District (SUSD) began providing services to students in 1852 and is located in the heart of California's Central Valley near the banks of the San Joaquin River. SUSD is the 17th largest school district in California, whereby 38,000 PK-12th grade students come to us to experience an academic journey that leads to high school graduation and success in college, careers, and as actively-engaged community members. The District also serves a number of adults through our Stockton School For Adults. SUSD is made up of thirty-seven Head Start classes, fifty-three state preschool classes, three First 5 preschool classes, forty-one K-8 schools, four comprehensive high schools, three small high schools, an alternative high school, a special education school, a school for adults, and five dependent charter schools. Our district mission is to graduate every single youth college, career, and community ready. Stockton Unified School District is dedicated to providing high-quality first instruction, rigorous curriculum, and supporting academic achievement and social-emotional development supported by Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS). The District's work is guided by three focal goals:
• Every child by the end of third grade will read and comprehend at the proficient level.
• Every child will have access to high quality, rigorous first instruction.
• Every child, by the end of 12th grade, will graduate and be college, career, and community ready.
Job Summary
SUSD is proud to offer a comprehensive benefit package:
-FREE health benefits through Kaiser for Employee and Family
-Paid Vacation Days
-Paid Sick Leave Days
-Floating Holiday
Job Description / Essential Elements:
EDUCATIONAL SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER
(ITINERANT)
BASIC FUNCTION:
Professionally support the mission of Stockton Unified School District in providing high quality delivery of educational services to all students. Under the direction of the Director of Special Education, the Administrator of Special Education and/or an assigned site Administrator; provide interpreting/transliteration services that effectively, accurately, and impartially, both receptively and expressively, using any necessary specialized vocabulary that facilitates communication between deaf and/or hard of hearing students and others; teachers, administrators, parents, students, counselors, to assist deaf and hard of hearing students.
REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES:
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
Interpret for D/HH students who are educated in a variety of educational environments, general education, and special education continuum including early childhood natural environments, community based and vocational instruction. Recognize and adjust interpretive language to match the student's preferred language and language mode to ensure that the student comprehends the interpretation. Interpret for parent conferences, IEP meetings and other school-sponsored activities as needed. Provide tutoring and instructional support to D/HH students to assist them in their classes.
Participate in educational team meetings and provide information on students' use of interpreting services and proficiency in communication.
Maintain confidentiality about student information and communication content, as appropriate to the educational system. Participate in meetings and conferences as assigned. Facilitate the on-going acquisition of sign language skills for students and staff. Assist in data collection, maintaining records, class assignments and provide signing to assist in achieving IEP/IFSP goals and benchmarks; report student progress to assigned teachers. Consult with classroom teachers to identify pupils in need of special assistance, identify unusual problems and report to teachers as appropriate. Assist with social development of students through communication, implementation of behavior support plans and appropriate modeling of behavior. Work with teachers to develop ways of increasing interaction between deaf students and all peers. Support the use of assistive technology, hearing aids, sound amplification systems, etc. Maintain cultural awareness and sensitivity to different attitudes and life styles.
KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:
KNOWLEDGE OF:
• To be knowledgeable of a variety of sign languages and systems e.g. American Sign Language, Pidgin Sign English, Manually Coded English, Cued Speech.
• To draw on a broad spectrum of knowledge in the humanities, sciences, and the arts, often collectively called general studies.
• To have knowledge of the educational implications, challenges and issues that face students with hearing impairment.
• Additional support services: Tutoring techniques and responsibilities; note-taking, use of visual materials, specialized seating.
• Orientation to deafness: Information about teaching sign language and about deafness or hearing impairment for the lay person; referral sources on general topics relating to deafness; when, how, and to whom to make referrals, promoting an expanded communication environment for the deaf or hard of hearing student; fostering student participation in activities.
• Challenges and issues that face students with deafness and hearing impairment.
ABILITY TO:
• Utilize Visual English and American Sign Language and demonstrate ability to understand and to be understood by a variety of students at different age level.
• Facilitating communication between a student and the student's teacher that reflects a "sense of the whole message" rather than just a technically correct translation of the words used.
• Convey the different "registers" of the speaker e.g. degree of formality, range of emotion, directiveness, and discourse makers which indicate the comment is an "aside" or a sidebar to the main conversation.
• Interpreter should recognize when communication provided by the interpreter is or is not clearly understood by the student.
• Utilize appropriate signs from already known signs, to promote the understanding of concepts and words found in an academic setting, and research signs that are needed for the academic area.
• Demonstrate interpersonal and professional skills with the ability to interact effectively with peers, supervisors, children and parents, utilizing tact, patience and courtesy.
• Encourage student independence, including use of communication.
• Assist students in a positive, flexible and understanding manner.
• Modify and prepare instructional materials for the student as directed by the teacher.
• Understand and follow oral, signed and written directions.
• Speak, read and write clearly and distinctly.
• Provide instructional assistance to students in a variety of activities.
• Ability to learn the functions, procedures and limitations of assigned duties, as well, maintain a professional relationship with all students and families.
• Ability to successfully supervise student.
• Demonstrate on-going proficiency development in the area of sign language systems.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Two years of college (minimum 48 semester units) or possession of an Associate degree or higher or proof of certification through a local assessment which meets the requirements of "No Child Left Behind" AND possession of an Interpreter certification, as determined by the California Department of Education (CDE), AND two years of experience interpreting for deaf or hearing impaired students.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
ENVIRONMENT:
Employees in this position will be required to work at various locations and come in direct contact with students, District personnel, outside agency representatives and the public.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
Employees in this position must have/be able to:
• Sit for extended periods of time.
• Enter data into a computer terminal/typewriter and operate standard office equipment.
• See and read a computer screen and printed matter with or without vision aids.
• See, hear and speak with/without assistive devices sufficient to communicate effectively with others.
• Drive to a variety of locations.
• Reach overhead, above the shoulders and horizontally, grasp, push, pull.
• Lift and/or carry up to 25 pounds at waist height for short distances.
• Sign for extended periods of time.
Requirements / Qualifications
Comments and Other Information
Stockton Unified School District prohibits discrimination, intimidation, harassment (including sexual harassment), and bullying based on a person's actual or perceived ancestry, color, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, immigration status, nationality, race or ethnicity, ethnic group identification, age, religion, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, sex, sexual orientation; a perception of one or more of such characteristics; or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.
El Distrito Escolar Unificado de Stockton prohíbe discriminación, acoso (incluyendo acoso sexual), atormentar o coercionar, e intimidación incluyendo: la discriminación contra un individuo o grupo por motivos de raza, color, ascendencia, nacionalidad, origen nacional, estado migratorio, identificación de grupo étnico, etnicidad, edad, religión, estado civil, embarazo, estado parental, discapacidad física o mental, sexo, orientación sexual, género, identidad de género, expresión de género o información genética; una percepción de una o más de tales características; o asociación con una persona o grupo, con una o más de estas características reales o percibidas.
For inquiries regarding our non-discrimination policies, please refer to the following contacts. Kindly refrain from contacting these individuals regarding the application process.
Para consultas sobre nuestras pólizas de no discriminación, consulte los siguientes contactos. Por favor, absténgase de comunicarse con estas personas con respecto al proceso de solicitud.
Title IX Coordinator
Director, Constituent Services
56 S. Lincoln Street Stockton, CA 95203
(209) 933-7037 Ext. 2195
Constituentservices@stocktonusd.net
504 Coordinator
School Counseling Program Specialist
1141 Lever Blvd. Room 105 Stockton, CA 95206
(209) 933-7130 ext. 2617
504-coordinator@stocktonusd.net
Education Equity Compliance Officer
1661 Pacific Avenue Stockton, CA 95204
(209) 933-7022 ext. 1387
educationequity@stocktonusd.net