GED Teacher-Woonsocket, RI

Provide multi-level standards-based instruction incorporating best practices in teaching adult education to adult learners while considering the individual assessments and intake information.

Registration:

Participate in Registration process assess students using appropriate CASAS instruments.

During Intake Interview evaluate students using Project LEARN Informal Reading Evaluation.

Consult with team to determine/recommend appropriate placement.

Program Implementation/Teaching:

• Register students for classes by completing intake paperwork thoroughly.
• Review the intake documents for each returning student.
• Pretest and post-test students.
• Communicate student job placement information to data specialist.
• Implement contextualized lessons based on College and Career Readiness Standards and submit to program director weekly.
• Incorporate a variety of instructional strategies - dialogues, role-playing, working in pair, small groups and one on one.
• Provide opportunity for students to use various software programs and free websites.
• Implement student learner goals on intake and on a quarterly basis.
• Review student learner goals as needed.
• Introduce students to the community and services available to them.
• Maintain student portfolios for each student that will contain best academic evidentiary pieces of student work.
• Maintain student folders with formative assessments, student learner goals and tests.
• Complete daily attendance sheet and send to data specialist biweekly.
• Contact the program director should student request support for personal issues.
• Sporadic attendance should be noted on the attendance sheet and a phone log filled out for any unexcused absence.
• Timely correspondence with data specialist regarding, new intakes, employment, pre and post-test, attendance and student chart documentation.
• Work with students on chrome books, integrating technology into lesson plans.
• Call students that have exited the program to see if they are employed.

Assessment:

CASAS post-test must be administered after 40 hours of instruction, even if the student has exited the program.

Formative assessments such as rubrics or summative assessments should be utilized after every lesson plan.

LD Designee- If you are the LD Designee the following is also applicable:

LD Designee is available as the contact person for assistance in securing disability accommodations.

Attend LD meetings and communicate information to all Project LEARN staff

Check physical accessibility of building and classrooms at least yearly using ADA accessibility standards and communicate information to the program manager

LD makes sure that Project LEARN is up to date regarding non-discrimination notices including Designee's contact information are included in student materials such as handbooks and are posted in public areas in three different languages

The LD Designee is responsible for coordinating the efforts within their program and between programs to make the public service of education accessible to all adults who seek it in the state.

LD Designee maintains documentation of requests for accommodation and of the accommodations that are provided.

LD Designee makes sure that internal program processes and materials are accessible and "fully inform" adult learners about "the educational choices available to them."

Help with advocacy for accessibility in instruction and consistency in treatment of students.

Help with the delivery of disability-related training or distribution of announcements of such training to teachers and staff.

LD Designee if responsible for knowing what kinds of "testing, evaluation and accommodation" are available to adult learners.

Coordinates student referrals to appropriate programs within the adult education delivery system.

Answers or finds answers to student requests for accommodations in a timely fashion and seeks support from RIDE when students need accommodations that cannot reasonably be provided within the program or by referral through the system.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING REQUIRED:

• Bachelor's degree or five years of adult education experience.
• Understanding of adults as learners.
• Knowledge of current evaluation tools.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• CASAS certified.
• North Star Proctor Certified.
• Knowledgeable of CALIS system.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Valid driver's license Off site meetings.
• Multiple classroom locations.

About Us

Community Care Alliance provides an array of services and supports that are linked together so people can access help for their unique situations. Our goal is to help all members of our community become healthier, more self-reliant and better informed to meet their economic, social and emotional challenges.

Community Care Alliance is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or disability.

Military friendly employer!  

To apply for this opening please visit our website: http://www.communitycareri.org and select "Careers", then "Current Openings" to fill out an application, upload your cover letter, and resume.