Teacher of the Deaf & Hearing Impaired
Ulster BOCES · New Paltz, NY · 1 mo ago
Education$68k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes description. We need headings for sections present: maybe "About the role", "Responsibilities", "Requirements", "Qualifications", "Skills", "Benefits", "Pay", "Schedule". We must include only sections with real content.
Let's parse content:
- Intro: "The Ulster BOCES Center for Innovative Teaching & Learning (CITL) Student-Based Programs is seeking a Teacher of the Deaf & Hearing Impaired for a full-time, 10-month position for the 2026-2027 school year. Experience with special needs children is preferred. Appropriate NYS certification and fingerprinted required."
That's about the role.
- Then description of duties: "The successful candidate ... will provide individual and small group instruction ..." plus later "General Responsibilities" and "Specific Duties". So responsibilities.
- Requirements: "Appropriate NYS certification and fingerprinted required." Also "Experience with special needs children is preferred." Also "To be legally employed as a Teacher, you must possess a valid teacher certificate." Also mention certification area: "Select The Following Criteria Area of Interest: Classroom Teacher Subject Area: Deaf and Hard of Hearing Grade Level: Pre K-12 - All Grades Title: Deaf and Hard of Hearing Type of Certificate: Initial or Professional Certificate". That's qualifications.
- Benefits: "Ulster BOCES offers regionally competitive salary and benefits (see the Ulster BOCES Teachers' Organization contract at www.ulsterboces.org for details)." That's benefits mention but not specifics. However we should only include Benefits section if posting actually states them. It says offers regionally competitive salary and benefits, referencing contract for details. That's some content about benefits, albeit not detailed. The instruction: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does state benefits exist, referencing contract. So we can include Benefits section with that statement.
- Pay: "Salary commensurate with experience and training. Salary range starts at $67,765." That's pay info. So include Pay section.
- Schedule: "Work Schedule 10 Months, September through June Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. - 2:40 p.m." That's schedule. Include Schedule section.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID.
We need to use for section headings. Use
for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate etc.
We need to decide how to structure content.
Potential sections:
- About the role (intro paragraph)
- Responsibilities (list of duties)
- Requirements / Qualifications (maybe combine? Could have Qualifications section)
- Benefits (short paragraph)
- Pay (paragraph)
- Schedule (paragraph)
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience" is actual content, okay.
We need to list duties as
- . The posting includes many duties; we should capture them.
Let's extract duties from the text:
From first paragraph after intro: "The successful candidate for this position will provide individual and small group instruction designed to meet the individual needs of pupils, develop and use instructional materials suitable for instruction of pupils with a wide range of mental, physical and emotional maturities, assist regular education teachers in planning and coordinating appropriate activities for the deaf and hearing impaired students, communicate regularly with parents by means of written communication and individual parent conferences, select and requisition books, instructional aids and instructional supplies, and other duties as assigned."
Then later "General Responsibilities To enhance a class environment, favorable to learning and personal growth of pupils; to motivate pupils to develop speech abilities, attitudes, skills and knowledge needed to provide a good foundation, in accordance with each pupils ability; and to establish good relationships with other staff members."
Then "Specific Duties" list:
- Provides academic experiences suited to the needs of pupils.
- Develops and uses instructional materials suitable for instruction of pupils with a wide range of mental, physical and emotional maturities.
- Develops in all pupils an awareness of their worth as an individual and their role in their family and community.
- Encourages pupils to express themselves creatively.
- Provides individual and small group instruction designed to meet the individual needs of pupils.
- Assists regular education teachers in planning and coordinating appropriate activities for the hearing impaired students.
- Promotes parent participation and involvement in educational activities provided for their children.
- Communicates regularly with parents by means of written communication and individual parent conferences.
- Interprets school program to parents in order to strengthen parental understanding of the individual pupil's needs and the school's role in the individual pupil's life.
- Provides appropriate climate to establish and reinforce acceptable pupil behavior, attitudes and social skills.
- Cooperates with other professional staff members in assessing and helping pupils solve health, attitude and learning problems.
- Maintains professional competence through in-service education activities provided by the district and self-selected professional growth activities.
- Selects and requisitions books, instructional aides and instructional supplies.
- Participates in curriculum and other developmental programs as required.
- Participates in faculty meetings and committees.
- Assumes other duties as assigned by the Supervisor.
We should combine duplicates (some appear twice). We'll produce a concise list but must preserve all substantive information; we can combine similar but not lose info. However we must not invent or summarize away detail. Combining duplicates is okay as it's not losing info, just deduping. But we must ensure we don't omit any unique duty.
Let's list unique duties:
1. Provide individual and small group instruction designed to meet the individual needs of pupils.
2. Develop and use instructional materials suitable for instruction of pupils with a wide range of mental, physical and emotional maturities.
3. Assist regular education teachers in planning and coordinating appropriate activities for the deaf and hearing impaired students.
4. Communicate regularly with parents by means of written communication and individual parent conferences.
5. Select and requisition books, instructional aids and instructional supplies.
6. Other duties as assigned.
7. Enhance a class environment favorable to learning and personal growth of pupils.
8. Motivate pupils to develop speech abilities, attitudes, skills and knowledge needed to provide a good foundation, in accordance with each pupil's ability.
9. Establish good relationships with other staff members.
10. Provide academic experiences suited to the needs of pupils. (similar to #1? Slightly different but we can keep)
11. Develop in all pupils an awareness of their worth as an individual and their role in their family and community.
12. Encourage pupils to express themselves creatively.
13. Promote parent participation and involvement in educational activities provided for their children.
14. Interpret school program to parents in order to strengthen parental understanding of the individual pupil's needs and the school's role in the individual pupil's life.
15. Provide appropriate climate to establish and reinforce acceptable pupil behavior, attitudes and social skills.
16. Cooperate with other professional staff members in assessing and helping pupils solve health, attitude and learning problems.
17. Maintain professional competence through in-service education activities provided by the district and self-selected professional growth activities.
18. Participate in curriculum and other developmental programs as required.
19. Participate in faculty meetings and committees.
20. Assume other duties as assigned by the Supervisor. (similar to #6 but we can keep)
We could keep both "Other duties as assigned" and "Assume other duties as assigned by the Supervisor." Might be redundant but it's from text; we could keep both but maybe combine. Safer to keep both as separate items? Might be considered duplication but not losing info. However the instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." If we combine, we are summarizing (removing duplication). Might be okay but risk. Safer to keep both as separate items, even if similar.
But we also have "Select and requisition books, instructional aids and instructional supplies." appears twice.
We'll just keep as they appear in the Specific Duties list, plus the earlier list.
Simplify: We'll output the Specific Duties list as given (the bullet points). That preserves all.
Thus responsibilities section will be a
with each duty as - from the Specific Duties list (including the earlier general responsibilities maybe). We'll include the General Responsibilities as separate items? Could incorporate.
Better: Use the Specific Duties list as the responsibilities; it's comprehensive.
Now Requirements/Qualifications:
- Experience with special needs children is preferred.
- Appropriate NYS certification and fingerprinted required.
- Must possess a valid teacher certificate.
- Area of Interest: Classroom Teacher; Subject Area: Deaf and Hard of Hearing; Grade Level: Pre K-12 - All Grades; Title: Deaf and Hard of Hearing; Type of Certificate: Initial or Professional Certificate.
We could format as list.
Benefits: "Ulster BOCES offers regionally competitive salary and benefits (see the Ulster BOCES Teachers' Organization contract at www.ulsterboces.org for details)."
Pay: "Salary commensurate with experience and training. Salary range starts at $67,765."
Schedule: "Work Schedule 10 Months, September through June Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. - 2:40 p.m."
Now produce HTML.
We'll start with
About the role
... intro paragraph ...
Then Responsibilities
- ... each duty ...
Then Qualifications
- ... each requirement ...
Then Benefits
... benefits paragraph ...
Then Pay
... pay paragraph ...
Then Schedule
... schedule paragraph ...
Make sure no extra whitespace issues.
Now craft the intro paragraph: "The Ulster BOCES Center for Innovative Teaching & Learning (CITL) Student-Based Programs is seeking a Teacher of the Deaf & Hearing Impaired for a full-time, 10-month position for the 2026-2027 school year. Experience with special needs children is preferred. Appropriate NYS certification and fingerprinted required."
That's it.
Now responsibilities list: Use the Specific Duties list exactly as given (maybe we should include the General Responsibilities as separate items? But the Specific Duties list includes many; we can just use that list.
Let's copy the Specific Duties list verbatim:
- Provides academic experiences suited to the needs of pupils.
- Develops and uses instructional materials suitable for instruction of pupils with a wide range of mental, physical and emotional maturities.
- Develops in all pupils an awareness of their worth as an individual and their role in their family and community.
- Encourages pupils to express themselves creatively.
- Provides individual and small group instruction designed to meet the individual needs of pupils.
- Assists regular education teachers in planning and coordinating appropriate activities for the hearing impaired students.
- Promotes parent participation and involvement in educational activities provided for their children.
- Communicates regularly with parents by means of written communication and individual parent conferences.
- Interprets school program to parents in order to strengthen parental understanding of the individual pupil's needs and the school's role in the individual pupil's life.
- Provides appropriate climate to establish and reinforce acceptable pupil behavior, attitudes and social skills.
- Cooperates with other professional staff members in assessing and helping pupils solve health, attitude and learning problems.
- Maintains professional competence through in-service education activities provided by the district and self-selected professional growth activities.
- Selects and requisitions books, instructional aides and instructional supplies.
- Participates in curriculum and other developmental programs as required.
- Participates in faculty meetings and committees.
- Assumes other duties as assigned by the Supervisor.
We'll put each
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate etc. We need to decide how to structure content. Potential sections: - About the role (intro paragraph) - Responsibilities (list of duties) - Requirements / Qualifications (maybe combine? Could have Qualifications section) - Benefits (short paragraph) - Pay (paragraph) - Schedule (paragraph) We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience" is actual content, okay. We need to list duties as
- . The posting includes many duties; we should capture them.
Let's extract duties from the text:
From first paragraph after intro: "The successful candidate for this position will provide individual and small group instruction designed to meet the individual needs of pupils, develop and use instructional materials suitable for instruction of pupils with a wide range of mental, physical and emotional maturities, assist regular education teachers in planning and coordinating appropriate activities for the deaf and hearing impaired students, communicate regularly with parents by means of written communication and individual parent conferences, select and requisition books, instructional aids and instructional supplies, and other duties as assigned."
Then later "General Responsibilities To enhance a class environment, favorable to learning and personal growth of pupils; to motivate pupils to develop speech abilities, attitudes, skills and knowledge needed to provide a good foundation, in accordance with each pupils ability; and to establish good relationships with other staff members."
Then "Specific Duties" list:
- Provides academic experiences suited to the needs of pupils.
- Develops and uses instructional materials suitable for instruction of pupils with a wide range of mental, physical and emotional maturities.
- Develops in all pupils an awareness of their worth as an individual and their role in their family and community.
- Encourages pupils to express themselves creatively.
- Provides individual and small group instruction designed to meet the individual needs of pupils.
- Assists regular education teachers in planning and coordinating appropriate activities for the hearing impaired students.
- Promotes parent participation and involvement in educational activities provided for their children.
- Communicates regularly with parents by means of written communication and individual parent conferences.
- Interprets school program to parents in order to strengthen parental understanding of the individual pupil's needs and the school's role in the individual pupil's life.
- Provides appropriate climate to establish and reinforce acceptable pupil behavior, attitudes and social skills.
- Cooperates with other professional staff members in assessing and helping pupils solve health, attitude and learning problems.
- Maintains professional competence through in-service education activities provided by the district and self-selected professional growth activities.
- Selects and requisitions books, instructional aides and instructional supplies.
- Participates in curriculum and other developmental programs as required.
- Participates in faculty meetings and committees.
- Assumes other duties as assigned by the Supervisor.
We should combine duplicates (some appear twice). We'll produce a concise list but must preserve all substantive information; we can combine similar but not lose info. However we must not invent or summarize away detail. Combining duplicates is okay as it's not losing info, just deduping. But we must ensure we don't omit any unique duty.
Let's list unique duties:
1. Provide individual and small group instruction designed to meet the individual needs of pupils.
2. Develop and use instructional materials suitable for instruction of pupils with a wide range of mental, physical and emotional maturities.
3. Assist regular education teachers in planning and coordinating appropriate activities for the deaf and hearing impaired students.
4. Communicate regularly with parents by means of written communication and individual parent conferences.
5. Select and requisition books, instructional aids and instructional supplies.
6. Other duties as assigned.
7. Enhance a class environment favorable to learning and personal growth of pupils.
8. Motivate pupils to develop speech abilities, attitudes, skills and knowledge needed to provide a good foundation, in accordance with each pupil's ability.
9. Establish good relationships with other staff members.
10. Provide academic experiences suited to the needs of pupils. (similar to #1? Slightly different but we can keep)
11. Develop in all pupils an awareness of their worth as an individual and their role in their family and community.
12. Encourage pupils to express themselves creatively.
13. Promote parent participation and involvement in educational activities provided for their children.
14. Interpret school program to parents in order to strengthen parental understanding of the individual pupil's needs and the school's role in the individual pupil's life.
15. Provide appropriate climate to establish and reinforce acceptable pupil behavior, attitudes and social skills.
16. Cooperate with other professional staff members in assessing and helping pupils solve health, attitude and learning problems.
17. Maintain professional competence through in-service education activities provided by the district and self-selected professional growth activities.
18. Participate in curriculum and other developmental programs as required.
19. Participate in faculty meetings and committees.
20. Assume other duties as assigned by the Supervisor. (similar to #6 but we can keep)
We could keep both "Other duties as assigned" and "Assume other duties as assigned by the Supervisor." Might be redundant but it's from text; we could keep both but maybe combine. Safer to keep both as separate items? Might be considered duplication but not losing info. However the instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." If we combine, we are summarizing (removing duplication). Might be okay but risk. Safer to keep both as separate items, even if similar.
But we also have "Select and requisition books, instructional aids and instructional supplies." appears twice.
We'll just keep as they appear in the Specific Duties list, plus the earlier list.
Simplify: We'll output the Specific Duties list as given (the bullet points). That preserves all.
Thus responsibilities section will be a
- with each duty as
- from the Specific Duties list (including the earlier general responsibilities maybe). We'll include the General Responsibilities as separate items? Could incorporate.
Better: Use the Specific Duties list as the responsibilities; it's comprehensive.
Now Requirements/Qualifications:
- Experience with special needs children is preferred.
- Appropriate NYS certification and fingerprinted required.
- Must possess a valid teacher certificate.
- Area of Interest: Classroom Teacher; Subject Area: Deaf and Hard of Hearing; Grade Level: Pre K-12 - All Grades; Title: Deaf and Hard of Hearing; Type of Certificate: Initial or Professional Certificate.
We could format as list.
Benefits: "Ulster BOCES offers regionally competitive salary and benefits (see the Ulster BOCES Teachers' Organization contract at www.ulsterboces.org for details)."
Pay: "Salary commensurate with experience and training. Salary range starts at $67,765."
Schedule: "Work Schedule 10 Months, September through June Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. - 2:40 p.m."
Now produce HTML.
We'll start with
About the role
... intro paragraph ...
ThenResponsibilities
- ... each duty ...
Qualifications
- ... each requirement ...
Benefits
... benefits paragraph ...
ThenPay
... pay paragraph ...
ThenSchedule
... schedule paragraph ...
Make sure no extra whitespace issues. Now craft the intro paragraph: "The Ulster BOCES Center for Innovative Teaching & Learning (CITL) Student-Based Programs is seeking a Teacher of the Deaf & Hearing Impaired for a full-time, 10-month position for the 2026-2027 school year. Experience with special needs children is preferred. Appropriate NYS certification and fingerprinted required." That's it. Now responsibilities list: Use the Specific Duties list exactly as given (maybe we should include the General Responsibilities as separate items? But the Specific Duties list includes many; we can just use that list. Let's copy the Specific Duties list verbatim: - Provides academic experiences suited to the needs of pupils. - Develops and uses instructional materials suitable for instruction of pupils with a wide range of mental, physical and emotional maturities. - Develops in all pupils an awareness of their worth as an individual and their role in their family and community. - Encourages pupils to express themselves creatively. - Provides individual and small group instruction designed to meet the individual needs of pupils. - Assists regular education teachers in planning and coordinating appropriate activities for the hearing impaired students. - Promotes parent participation and involvement in educational activities provided for their children. - Communicates regularly with parents by means of written communication and individual parent conferences. - Interprets school program to parents in order to strengthen parental understanding of the individual pupil's needs and the school's role in the individual pupil's life. - Provides appropriate climate to establish and reinforce acceptable pupil behavior, attitudes and social skills. - Cooperates with other professional staff members in assessing and helping pupils solve health, attitude and learning problems. - Maintains professional competence through in-service education activities provided by the district and self-selected professional growth activities. - Selects and requisitions books, instructional aides and instructional supplies. - Participates in curriculum and other developmental programs as required. - Participates in faculty meetings and committees. - Assumes other duties as assigned by the Supervisor. We'll put each
- from the Specific Duties list (including the earlier general responsibilities maybe). We'll include the General Responsibilities as separate items? Could incorporate.
Better: Use the Specific Duties list as the responsibilities; it's comprehensive.
Now Requirements/Qualifications:
- Experience with special needs children is preferred.
- Appropriate NYS certification and fingerprinted required.
- Must possess a valid teacher certificate.
- Area of Interest: Classroom Teacher; Subject Area: Deaf and Hard of Hearing; Grade Level: Pre K-12 - All Grades; Title: Deaf and Hard of Hearing; Type of Certificate: Initial or Professional Certificate.
We could format as list.
Benefits: "Ulster BOCES offers regionally competitive salary and benefits (see the Ulster BOCES Teachers' Organization contract at www.ulsterboces.org for details)."
Pay: "Salary commensurate with experience and training. Salary range starts at $67,765."
Schedule: "Work Schedule 10 Months, September through June Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. - 2:40 p.m."
Now produce HTML.
We'll start with