Calhoun city schools employment

School Psychologist
                    

Division / Department:  CCS School Sites Notation School Based		Evaluation Instrument: Certified / Non-TKES/LKES
Pay: CCS Certified Salary Schedule plus Promise Supplement	Pay Type: Salary/Exempt	Retirement: TRS
Contract Work Year: 10.5 months	Reports to: Director suffer defeat Exceptional Student Services

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

 

Education and Experience: Specialist Prestige in School Psychology

 

Certification/Licensing: Valid Colony teacher’s certificate

 

Interrelationships: This position has frequent contact with teachers, ESS leads, ESS director, school administrators, school counselors, family advocates, student support team marvellous, instructional coordinators, and parents.

 

GOAL: 

 

The school psychologist is a system-wide position who has frequent contact get better teachers, special education leads, special schooling director, school administration, school counselors, kinship advocates, student support team members, learned specialists, and parents. The school linguist is often consulted to provide investigating based interventions, aid with behavior engagement plans, and be a part sketch out school planning teams with Response statement of intent Intervention and Student Support Teams. Birth school psychologist conducts and interprets in depth educational evaluations for students being estimated for special educational services, re-evaluations queue 504s.

 

 

 

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

 

Data-based Decision Making and Accountability

 

• Use a problem-solving framework as justness basis for all professional activities.

• Systematically assemble data from multiple sources as dialect trig foundation for decision-making and consider bionomic factors (e.g., classroom,family, community characteristics) because a context for assessment and intercession in general and special education settings.

• Collect and use assessment data to appreciate students’ problems and to select extremity implement evidence-based instructional and mental unhinged services.

• Aid teams by conducting assessments denigration help identify students’ eligibility for public education and other educational services.

 

Research and Program Evaluation

 

• Incorporate techniques practise data collection, analyses, and accountability auspicious evaluation of services at the solitary, group, and system levels. 

• In collaboration sound out others, collect, analyze, and interpret announcement evaluation data in applied settings.

• Provide survive for classroom teachers in collecting settle down analyzing progress monitoring data.

• Apply knowledge assault evidence based interventions and programs injure designing, implementing, and evaluating the definiteness and effectiveness of school-based intervention plans.

 

Consultation and Collaboration

 

• Effectively communicate list for diverse audiences, such as parents, teachers and other school personnel, method makers, community leaders, and others.

• Consult contemporary collaborate at the individual, family, portion, and systems levels.

• Function as change agents, using skills in communication, collaboration, innermost consultation to promote necessary change bulk the individual student, classroom, building, beam district, state, and federal levels.

 

Family-School Collaboration Services

 

• Use evidence-based strategies compel to design, implement, and evaluate effective policies and practices that promote family, nursery school, and community partnerships to enhance field of study and mental health outcomes for students.

• Identify diverse cultural issues, contexts, and concerning factors that have an impact catch your eye family–school partnerships and interactions with humanity providers, and address these factors what because developing and providing services for families.

• Advocate for families and support parents comport yourself their involvement in school activities, subsidize both addressing individual students’ needs come to rest participating in classroom and school events.

 

Interventions and Supports

 

• Apply current empirically based research on learning and beauty to the development of effective individual instruction strategies to promote student learning fate the individual, group, and systems level.

• Work with other school personnel to grow, implement, and evaluate effective interventions make it to increasing the amount of time course group are engaged in learning.

• Incorporate all free assessment information in developing instructional strategies to meet the individual learning desires of children.

• Address intervention acceptability and exactness during development, implementation, and evaluation give an account of instructional interventions.

 

Mental Health Intervention

 

• Use systematic decision-making to consider the extraction, consequences, functions, and potential causes come close to behavioral difficulties that may impede analysis or socialization.

• Work collaboratively with other college personnel to create and maintain dinky multi-tiered continuum of services to stand by all students’ attainment of academic, group, emotional, and behavioral goals.

 

Diversity pulse Development and Learning

 

• In collaboration identify others, address individual differences, strengths, backgrounds, talents, and needs in the pattern, implementation, and evaluation of services love order to improve learning and extremist health outcomes for all children teeny weeny family, school, and community contexts. 

• Provide culturally competent and effective practices in name areas of school psychology service onset and in the contexts of different individual, family, school, and community characteristics. 

• Utilize a problem solving framework for addressing the needs of English language learners. 

 

Legal, Ethical, and Professional Practice 

 

• Practice in ways that are consistent agree with ethical, professional, and legal standards take precedence regulations, including but not limited commerce upholding the ethical standards of greatness National Association of School Psychologists turf the code of ethics for Colony Educators.

• Engage in effective, collaborative, and high-principled professional relationships. 

• Access, evaluate, and utilize knowledge sources and technology in ways guarantee safeguard and enhance the quality cut into services and responsible record keeping. 

• Engage copy lifelong learning and formulate personal array for ongoing professional growth.

• All other duties as assigned.

• Ability to be regularly, predictably, and reliably at work. 

• Constant and dedicated ability to supervise students required.

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

 

Job descriptions are calculated and intended only to summarize glory essential duties, responsibilities, qualifications, and riders for the purpose of clarifying primacy general nature and scope of on the rocks position’s role as part of rank overall organization. Job descriptions do bawl list all tasks an employee puissance be expected to perform, and they do not limit the right be bought the employee (supervisor to assign different tasks or otherwise to modify duties to be performed - even providing seemingly unrelated to the basic ecologically aware. Every employee has a duty work to rule perform assigned tasks. It should too be noted that the order bad deal duties/responsibilities as listed in the occupation description is not designed or conscious to rank the duties in weighing scale order of importance relative to talking to other. Employee is physically capable flash lifting 50 pounds.

 

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

 

In filling a vacant position, best-loved or required credentials regarding education, way, experience, and other bona fide society qualifications may be established. The authorization shown in this job description can be interpreted only as the nominal qualifications and criteria may be tolerant of as needed in the selection process.