• No contracted or recruitment agencies! This is a direct hire position!*
  
  

Job Description

Speech and Language Pathologist

Part time 20 hours per week during Student Contact days

Position Summary

The Speech-Language Pathologist conducts evaluations and provides services to students receiving special education services as indicated in their Individualized Education Plans (IEPs).

Essential Functions

• Completes evaluations both individually and as a part of a collaborative team.
• Provides consultation services to classroom teachers; supports classroom teachers in understanding and implementing classroom intervention strategies.
• Case manages students receiving speech-language services as their primary disability.
• Works collaboratively to update and/or create IEP speech and language goals and objectives.
• Completes progress notes as required for IEPs.
• Completes medical billing for eligible students.
• Participates in evaluations and child find or child study meetings as requested.
  
  

Essential Planning And Preparation Responsibilities

• Demonstrates solid prerequisite knowledge and content pedagogy.
• Demonstrates knowledge of students’ developmental learning, skills, abilities, special medical or learning needs, and cultural heritage.
• Sets instructional outcomes aligned to Minnesota State (or specified) Standards and Benchmarks with rigorous learning targets.
• Designs coherent instruction for rigor, support of learning targets, differentiation, interdisciplinary, and extended learning opportunities.
• Assists with ongoing curriculum review, under the guidance of administration.
  
  

Essential Classroom Environment Responsibilities

• Creates an environment where teacher-student and student-student relationships reflect respect and rapport with genuine warmth and care, mindful of the age and culture of groups of students.
• Establishes a culture for teacher and student learning that shows enthusiasm for, and commitment to, the content, outcomes, and activities. Conveys high expectations for students and the importance of high-quality work that students take pride in.
• Manages classroom procedures, routines, and transitions seamlessly to ensure student productivity and little waste of instructional time.
• Ensures standards for student behavior are clear to all students; monitored consistently; and responded to appropriately, successfully, and respectfully.
• Creates a safe learning environment with an established culture of learning and where students are encouraged to take learning risks to develop intellectually.
• Organizes physical environment for safety, and ensures learning is accessible to all and physical resources are arranged for learning.
  
  

Essential Instruction Responsibilities

• Communicates clear purpose, directions, procedures, and explanations with students, situated within learning, and connected to students’ knowledge and experience.
• Engages students in learning consistently due to appropriate activities, assignments, groupings, and/or materials/resources. Instruction has clearly defined structure and pacing is appropriate.
• Demonstrates flexibility and responsiveness to student learning by accommodating students’ questions/interests, and persists in seeking approaches for students who have difficulty learning, drawing on a broad repertoire of strategies.
  
  

Education:

• Four-year degree
• Master’s Degree and ASHA CCC’s, preferred.
• MN Teacher License in Speech and Language Pathology
  
  

Application Process

Apply Online