Transition Academy Instructor

Description

Reports to: Transition Academy Program Director

• Help train job coaches (paras)
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of and experience in teaching life and workforce development skills.
• Instruct students ANL curriculum using current instructional strategies appropriate to the subject matter to assure highest quality classroom instruction.
• Effectively manage the classroom to create an optimal learning environment.
• Maintain up-to-date records of student attendance, academic progress and grades as required by district policy and certification/regulatory agencies.
• Ensure supply list and learning plans are current prior to each class taught.
• Able to multi-task and solve problems.
• Develop and implement staff schedule.
• Able to upload and implement, including afternoon vocational classes.
• Able to utilize assistive technologies
• Maintain and evaluate individual and collective applied academic statistics and reporting documents.
• Ensures the development, accuracy, and completeness of incident reports.
• Case Management.
• Counsel students related to life matters.
• Knowledgeable in handling crisis and medical emergency situations within a classroom or other learning environment(s), as it relates to I/DD and Autism.
• Knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations, guidelines, and standards in the areas of applied academics and vocational training to ensure a safe learning environment.
• Provides transportation when necessary.
• Assist with quarterly academy assemblies and graduation.
• Work closely with Applied Academic Program Coordinator and Work-Based learning staff.
• Ability to be flexible and complete tasks as unforeseen events arise.
• Model, mentor, and motivate the value of appropriate and effective independent living standards and workforce success.

Qualifications

• Highly developed organizational, time management, human relations and interpersonal communication and writing skills; self-motivated, flexible, and creative.
• Experience with planning, creating, and coordinating applied academic and vocational activities.
• Instructors shall meet at least one of the following qualifications at a minimum:

(1) Be a graduate of a recognized college or university and hold a baccalaureate degree with a minimum of 12 credit hours in a field directly related to the subject(s) he/she is teaching or,

(2) Have two years minimum full time work experience within the last seven years in the field in which he/she is teaching or,

(3) Have a license issued by a state or the federal government in the field in which he/she is teaching or have a nationally recognized professional certification in the field he/she is teaching, as approved by the Oklahoma Board of Private Vocational Schools

(4) The Oklahoma Board of Private Vocational Schools may waive these requirements if the school presents evidence that the instructor has met other requirements sufficient to provide adequate instruction in the subjects being taught, as approved by the Board.

(5) Schools that offer instruction outside of Oklahoma may provide documentation that those instructors meet the requirements of the states where the instruction is offered in lieu of OBPVS instructor qualifications.

• Operating knowledge and experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other department software.
• Possession of a valid driver’s license.
• CPR/First Aid
• Ability to participate in physical activity.
• Ability to stand, sit and walk for extended periods of time.
• Light to moderate lifting.

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