Deafblind Teacher: Perkins School For The Blind

Deafblind Teacher

Agency: Perkins School for the Blind, Deafblind Program

Location: Watertown, Massachusetts

Salary: Dependent on education and experience

Recruitment: Beginning 2009-2010 school year

Part-time, 15 hours per week

Eleven-months, 210 day program

Position #: 254

Perkins School for the Blind is the first school for the blind charted in the United States in 1829. For 179 years the staff at Perkins have been providing quality services to students and clients who are blind, visually impaired, deafblind and multi-impaired. As the programs and services at Perkins have grown, our focus has evolved and extended beyond our campus and into many different communities throughout the United States and around the world. Located near Boston and Cambridge, we currently provide a range of services to 92,000 people throughout the world (www.perkins.org). Our programs and services all strive to enable each student and client to develop his or her greatest potential and maximum independence.

General Description:

The Teacher promotes the learning of communication skills, practical academics, independent living skills, motor skills, the use of community resources and social skills to deafblind, deaf-multihandicapped, and multihandicapped blind students ages preschool to age 7. Responsibilities include providing lifting and transferring, behavioral interventions and case management to students, preparing individual lesson plans, developing IEP’s and writing progress reports, participating in program meetings and working as a member of an educational team.

Minimum Requirements: Degree in Special Education (intensive, severe, multiply-handicapped or deafblind). Current Massachusetts certification in primary area. Accumulation of an average of twenty professional development points per school year towards Massachusetts educator recertification. Current First Aid/C.P.R. Ability to lift and transfer. Ability to care for students who may exhibit aggressive behaviors. Ability to safely evacuate students from a building in an emergency.

Preference may be given to candidates having: Sign Language. Prior teaching experience with a multiply handicapped population. Crisis Prevention and Physical Intervention (CPPI) Training.

Located near Boston and Cambridge, Perkins provides an excellent opportunity to work in a school setting with leaders in the field of education for multiply handicapped students.

We provide a complete benefits package which includes competitive salaries; 8 weeks recess time, tuition reimbursement, medical and dental insurance, retirement programs and staff development and training.

How to apply: The school now offers the ability to apply for positions online. Email applications will no longer be accepted.

To apply for a position at Perkins School for the Blind, please visit our website, http://www.perkins.org/careers/

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