Waukee Community School District is an equal opportunity employer. Our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our students and community. We are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more diverse we are, the better positioned we are to build genuine relationships based on individual perspectives and positively contribute to a diverse global community.
Position Criteria:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Associate's or Bachelor's degree, preferred
- Iowa Sign Language Interpreter License
- Knowledge of correct English usage, conceptually accurate signed English (American Sign Language)
- Experience working with deaf community, especially children
Performance Criteria:
- Accurately perform American Sign Language (ASL) presented in a classroom or building situation (examples-lectures, announcements, discussion, assemblies)
- Interprets for student(s) during regular scheduled school hours as dictated by
- individual student’s IEP and as assigned by the building principal or designee using the district’s communication policy as a guide
- Providing access to the student’s school day, which may include testing time, clubs, or independent work
- Interpreting for school-sponsored functions outside of the classroom during regularly scheduled school hours
- Conveys the content and spirit of the speaker using the language most readily
- understood by the receiver.
- Attends IEP and other meetings (when appropriate)
- Keeps the teacher and administrator informed of all relevant student-related matters.
- Maintains working knowledge and use of available technology.
- Works well with others as well as independently, maintaining positive and effective
- communication with school personnel and students.
- Assists in the supervision of all students in the classroom and other areas of the
- school facility when not scheduled to interpret, when needs of assigned student
- have been met, or when assigned student is absent from school.
- Assists staff in preparation of materials when not scheduled to interpret or when
- needs of assigned students have been met.
- Provides designated student(s) instructional services including physical and academic
- assistance, behavior interventions, and instruction of social skills, according to IEP
- and under the direction of a special education teacher.
- Works with all groups or individual students in the daily routine of the classroom
- under the teacher’s direction when not scheduled to interpret, when needs of
- assigned students have been met, or when assigned student is absent from school.
- Opportunities to interpret during school sponsored after school and extracurricular activities as determined by IEP team and student needs (optional, not required).
- Other duties as assigned