About this role
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