Elementary Resource Teacher

Position Type

Special Education Department/Resource Teacher

Date Posted

11/18/2025

Location

Bear Path School

Date Available

ASAP

Closing Date

Until Filled

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HAMDEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

HAMDEN, CT 06517

Title

Resource Teacher

Qualifications

• Certification in the subject and/or grade level to be taught as determined by state certification authorities.
• Such other alternatives to the above qualification as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

Reports To

Building Administrator or Director/Coordinator

Job Goal

To provide each educationally handicapped student with the individually tailored help, counsel, and learning experience he or she needs to make progress toward educational goals established with the student's limitations in mind.

Performance Responsibilities

• Determines specific learning problems, skill deficiencies, or social adjustment difficulties of students and initiates remediation programs in these areas.
• Provides students with tutoring for other classes.
• Evaluates each student in terms of initial needs and progress toward remediation.
• Prepares progress reports and year-end evaluations.
• Makes available a wide range of teaching materials and equipment, including reading materials at many levels, instructional games, and resource materials.
• Counsels students in identifying and dealing with academic and social problems.
• Provides opportunities for students to explore life and career goals.
• Establishes and maintains standards of individual student behavior.
• Works closely with other teachers to help the students maintain satisfactory class work, homework, and behavior.
• Helps parents to understand the specific problems of educationally handicapped students and the goals and operation of the program, apprising them of problems and progress.
• Participates in selection and evaluation of students for admission to the program of education for such students.
• Participates in case conferences about educationally handicapped students.

Evaluation

Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee is regularly required to reach with hands and arms. The employee may be required to lift, push and/or move up to 50 pounds, including office supplies, books and other instructional materials as well as technology equipment. The employee must be able to hear clearly (correctable to within normal limits) to record telephone information and receive detailed messages. The employee needs to be able to tell where a

sound is coming from a noisy environment. Specific vision abilities required by this job include vision correctable to 20/20, distance vision, depth perception and peripheral vision. Adaptive technology may be used. There is some stress in interacting with students, faculty or the public and in meeting deadlines.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Environment

Exposure to student illnesses. There is regular intermittent exposure to computer screen. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud and is acceptable to this particular environment. The employee must work with students, staff and the public, continuously meeting multiple demands from several people.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Terms of Employment

Per negotiated agreement

The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the American with Disabilities Act (A.D.A) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position. Additional duties are performed by the individuals currently holding this position and additional duties may be assigned.