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Demonstrate a relentless drive to improve the minds, characters and lives of students both in and out of school. Show unwavering commitment to urban youth achieving greatness. Create a positive, structured learning environment to ensure that students observe theschool’s core values, high expectations, and strict code of conduct. Exhibit resilience to persevere and turn challenges into opportunities. Focus constantly on student learning, thinking critically and strategically to respond to studentlearning needs. Communicate effectively with students, families, and colleagues. Engage families in their children’s education. Commit to continual professional growth. May participate in grade level team meetings, faculty meetings, Intervention and Referral Services meetings, and Child Study Team meetings. Provide consistent rewards and/or consequences for student behavior to ensure that students observe the school’s core values, high expectations, and strict code of conduct. Implement curricula and activities to meet IEP goals and objectives. Design and implement assessments that measure progress towards IEP standards. Use assessment data to refine therapeutic intervention and inform therapy practices. Be accountable for students’ mastery of IEP standards. Provide small group and/or individual speech and language therapy for identified students in grades 5 through 12. Assess, diagnose, treat, and help to prevent speech, language, cognitive-communication, voice, fluency, and other related disorders. Effectively communicate diagnostic test results, diagnoses, present level of speech and language functioning and proposed treatment goals in a manner easily understood by students and their families. Use qualitative and quantitative assessment methods, including screenings, standardized tests, and special instruments, to analyze and diagnose the nature and extent of speech and language impairments. Develop an individualized plan of care, tailored to each student’s needs. Provide present levels of speech and language functioning and speech and language goals and objectives for students’ IEP annual reviews. Select augmentative or alternative communication methods, including automated devices and sign language, and teach their use. Maintain records on the initial evaluation, progress, and discharge of students to identify problems, track progress, and justify treatment. Produce quarterly progress reports describing progress towards IEP goals and present level of performance. Provide direct clinical services to students with speech, language, cognitive-communication, voice, fluency, and other related disorders. Collaborate with teachers, special educators, audiologists, school psychologists, related service providers, and parents to develop and implement individual or group programs, provide counseling, and support classroom activities. Counsel students and their families concerning communication disorders and work with family members to recognize and change behavior patterns that impede communication and treatment and show them communication-enhancing techniques to use at home. Engage in one’s learning; seek out and act on feedback regularly. Seek out and engage in continuing professional education to maintain ASHA membership and Massachusetts State licensure.
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