DS-Plus Teacher (West)

The DS-Plus Early Intervention Educator integrates a range of teaching and learning approaches and identifies new approaches to conduct lessons/activities for children in the preschool setting.

The key roles include:

• Providing chance for the children to reinforce skills like speech and language skills, socio-communication skills, fine and gross motor skills, literacy skills, and self-help skills in the preschool settings.
• Enriching childrens learning through implementing curriculum, and adapting and integrating developmentally appropriate teaching and classroom engagement strategies.
• Creating quality natural learning environment and facilitates children's development and learning in the preschool.
• Partnering with families and caregivers and coordinates with community stakeholders, and social service providers to support the delivery of Centre initiatives, programmes and services.
• Carrying out data collection for inquiry projects.
• Being thoughtful, calm and loves working with children and have strong interpersonal skills.
• Working in varied settings such as in Early Intervention Centre and/or preschools.
• Working in a transdisciplinary team in the course of his/her work.

Job Responsibilities:

Plan and implement curriculum and programmes

• Integrate a range of teaching and learning approaches to meet diverse needs of children with developmental needs
•  Develop activity plans and teaching materials that are appropriate to use in preschool
• Adapt a range of developmentally appropriate materials and resources to create quality learning environment
• Review health, safety, nutritional and hygiene practices in accordance with standards and procedures
• Identify new teaching and learning or inclusive approaches to suit the profile of children that he/she is teaching
• Conduct EIPIC & preschool observation, Brigance screening and assessment of children's strengths and needs according to their developmental milestones
• Prepare DS-Plus timeline and IEP based on screening and observation outcomes and discuss with EIPIC team (for Step-down cases) and preschool teachers
• Prepare for the presentation of screening outcomes

Manage family and community programmes

• Identify learning strategies for family and community (i.e., preschool) programmes and initiatives
• Suggest strategies for family and community on child's needs, with trans-disciplinary team consultations
• Support or co-planning the development of outreach activities to create awareness on centre programmes and services
• Implement centre, family, and community initiatives and programmes

Uplift professional practice of early intervention teaching

• Engage in systematic reflective practice
• Support the implementation of new intervention methods, tools and assistive technologies based on emerging Early Intervention and sector trends
• Collect data for consolidation and refinement
• Support conceptualisation of inquiry projects
• Provide feedback on applicability of proposed teaching and intervention practices based on inquiry findings
• Share suggestions to improve DS-Plus processes

Deliver interventions

• Prepare children's e-files, reports (i.e., IEP, Weekly Progress Monitoring, Email updates, Transition Report, Discharge Report) and closure of cases
• Deliver interventions using appropriate methods, tools and assistive technologies to support learning under supervision
• Deliver approprate strategies/ activities at preschools using inclusive practices/ strategies supervision will be provided to ensure smooth delivery of intervention
• Implement appropriate classroom engagement strategies
• Track children's learning progress, goals and family priorities in coordination with other social service and healthcare professionals
• Write and submit reports (i.e., GCO summary, IEP, School Report, Discharge Report etc), update SSNet data in a timely manner

Collaborate with families and stakeholders across disciplines

• Partner with families and caregivers to enhance child and family outcomes
• Coordinate centre activities with teachers, support staff, volunteers, social service and healthcare professionals
• Coordinate with community stakeholders, volunteers and social service providers to support the implementation of programmes and services
• Conduct discussions or meetings (i.e., IEP meeting, Case Conferences, Joint-Meeting with Aops, etc) weekly review as a key worker
• Work in Transition Support workplan to improve Transition Support programme
• Co-plan activities with the preschool teachers to model the strategies
• Provide coaching to parents & preschool teachers to work on the strategies at home or in class
• Use HEART narratives

Qualifications

• Specialist Diploma in Early Childhood Intervention (Special Needs) (SDESN) or ADESN
• Degree or Diploma in Early Childhood Education, Special Education or related fields from recognized institutions

Other Information

• 1 to 3 years of experience working with families and children in a preschool or early intervention setting
• Mature, independent, creative, flexible thinking and able to motivate children
• Good with people skills
• Able to work independently
• Has good understanding of the diverse cultures and races
• Has patience, love, passion, and commitment in the education of and nurturing young children and empowering the families
• Valid First Aid Certificate preferred
• Keen to develop professionally
• Successful incumbent will be required to travel around the West region (Choa Chu Kang/Pioneer)