Special Populations Job Description Shannon Baker, Consultant Special Populations, Civil Rights,...

Special Populations Job Description

Shannon Baker, Consultant

Special Populations, Civil Rights, Equity

NCDPI

Shannon Baker, Consultant

Special Populations, Civil Rights, Equity

NCDPI

Objectives

• Overview of job description;

• Identify the special population students;

• Establish relationships with CTE & school staff;

• Licensure requirements.

Job DescriptionObjectives• Review the major functions of special

populations coordination;

• Discuss the laws related to those functions;

• Identify the roles of specific CTE department members as it relates to special populations.

Job Description

• Outreach & recruitment

• Assessment & prescription

• Coordination with other service providers

• Monitoring access, progress, & success

• Annual accountability & planning.

Outreach & Recruitment

• Promote recruitment, enrollment & placement

• Provide information about CTE opportunities to students & parents

• Coordinate a CDP for students enrolled in CTE programs

Assessment & Prescription

• Identify students• Assess needs

through career interest & learning styles inventories

• Develop & implement the Special Populations portion of CDP+

• Participate in IEP process

• Coordinate special services

• Maintain special populations resources for students & teachers (if possible)

• Assist with transition services

• Provide guidance & career development activities

Coordination w/ Other Services

• Collaborate w/ CTE teachers

• Coordinate w/ agencies that can provide supplementary services

• Facilitate in-service training for those working w/ SP students

• Assist w/ the development/

• monitoring of CDP+• Coordinate work

experience & field trips

Access, Progress, Success

• Maintain records documenting access, progress & success

• Analyze data to determine how to maintain & improve

• Document the attainment of performance indicators for SP members

Annual Accountability & Planning

• Identify programs that need improvement

• Describe strategies to improve supplementary services

• Evaluate incentives & adjustments to determine if adequate services are being provided

• Maintain relevant recordkeeping & inventory related to job

• Coordinate w/ stakeholders to develop a Plan of Work

Activity

• As you look study the job description as it relates to special populations monitoring, define how the following people can contribute to the monitoring of special populations students:

CTE Teachers Career Development Coordinator Special Populations Coordinator

Resources

• NCDPI Challenge Handbook (2005)• National Alliance for Partnership in Equity

(www.napequity.org)• US Department of Education (www.ed.gov) • Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.com) • National Dissemination Center for Children with

Disabilities (www.nichcy.org)