Elementary Teacher, Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired (LSVI)

About the role

The Louisiana Special Schools are experiencing a critical shortage of certified teachers, school counselors, interpreters and educators of the Deaf or hard of hearing and Visually Impaired. The LA SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT is seeking applicants for a Elementary Teacher, Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired (LSVI).

Responsibilities

• Teach to the diverse learning needs of every student you teach.
• Plan and execute strong Tier 1 and Tier 2 interventions within the Response to Intervention (RtI) framework to ensure every child can master the material in your class every day.
• Execute the lessons you have planned with fidelity and at the highest level, ensuring 100% of your students are engaged in your lesson and doing rigorous thinking at every moment.
• Use relevant instructional techniques and technologies for the visually impaired student.
• Track data to assess the efficacy of your interventions. If interventions aren’t working, find new interventions to test out to ensure all students are growing as fast as possible towards their goals.
• Ensure all students have high quality accommodations and modifications in place to meet their unique needs.
• Commit to a minimum of one hour, two days per week of tutoring. Additional compensation will be provided.

Requirements

• Louisiana teaching certificate, 2+ years of teaching experience, preferably working with students from similar backgrounds to LSVI students.
• Teacher of Visually Impaired certification preferred (3 years to achieve).
• Passing score on the National Certification Unified English Braille (NCUEB).

Qualifications

• Deep belief that all students, regardless of their backgrounds and educational pasts, have the potential to succeed in college, career, and beyond, and that it is the responsibility of schools to help students realize that potential.
• Strong knowledge in content area of choice, demonstrated through lesson planning, execution, and intervention with all students.
• Strong desire to participate in all school activities, including extracurricular activities, clubs, sports, school health and wellness activities, and other activities and events that promote school identity and culture.
• Effective rating measured using the Compass observation and goal setting cycle and tools, which includes measures of setting instructional outcomes, managing classroom procedures, questioning and discussion techniques, engaging students in learning, using assessment in instruction, and measurable student learning targets.

Skills

• Ability to constantly find joy in the successes and challenges of our work.
• Positive attitude and strong work ethic.
• Personal initiative to better yourself and those around you.
• Drive to actively pursue excellence in everything you do, even when not given direct coaching.

Benefits

• Comprehensive services, including rigorous instruction, outreach services, extracurricular activities, assistive technology, transition, and orientation and mobility and Expanded Core training.
• College and career preparatory environment where students are expected to read, to respond, to analyze information, to reason and solve real-world problems, and to make sense of the world around them.
• Teachers are experts in the field and in the needs of our students, they engage in regular Professional Learning Communities, and they continuously grow in the profession and techniques.

Pay

This is a full time 9 month and 7.5 hours per day position. The pay range for this position is TBD.

Schedule

The schedule for this position is 9 months and 7.5 hours per day, starting for the 2025-2026 school year.