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Assignment: Itinerant

Annual Salary: $47,533-$54,749 PLUS $1,750 Masters Stipend

Hours: 7:15 AM - 2:45 PM

Exceptional package including but not limited to: Employment - Erie 1 BOCES (https://www.e1b.org/en/about-us/employment.aspx#Great-Benefits)

+ Paid annual Holidays

+ Generous Paid Personal/Sick time

+ Premium Health and Dental plans (E1B pays 85%)

+ Medical Insurance waiver allowance

+ Life insurance at NO cost to you

+ FSA plan

+ Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

+ NYS Retirement System

+ 403b AND 457 retirement plans

Job Responsibilities:

Erie 1 BOCES is hiring a Teacher of the Visually Impaired for the 2025-2026 school year. TVIs provide vision services to students based on their IEP/ 504 mandates. TVIs assess new and existing students to determine vision service levels, provide mandated services, evaluate progress and report on student progress, complete PLEPS and develop goals. Additionally, TVIs work with the education team to ensure all vision needs are met within the classroom. Our vision teachers are itinerant, meaning they can travel to any of our 19 component school districts to provide vision services.

1. Assesses students, both informally and formally, in order to provide an individualized classroom program.

2. Designs plans and appropriate activities to reach individual pupil IE.P.'s.

3. Provides an individualized education program for visually impaired students consistent with state education mandates and the program's goals and requirements.

4. Establishes a classroom environment that provides for the student's social/emotional and behavioral needs as well as academic needs including specific systems of motivation to students.

5. Assists and counsels students in making realistic assessments of their abilities in establishing educational and/or career goals.

6. Keeps attendance records and other reports/records pertinent to the program.

7. Provides, when warranted, continuous consultation and/or management outside of the classroom to appropriate personnel.

8. Provides assistance to students with regular class assignments.

9. Assists in screening, evaluating, and recommending placement of students in the school's program.

10. Works cooperatively with regular classroom teachers and staff who have students with disabilities interpreting their abilities, disabilities, and meeting the individual needs of the student.

11. Assists other professional staff members in identifying, recommending, and resolving psychological or disciplinary actions unique to the student.

12. Confers frequently with parents, professional staff members, building level social/emotional, psychological, behavioral, and intellectual potential.

13. When appropriate, coordinates and supervises work experience and on-campus job training programs involving students with disabilities.

14. Participates, when appropriate, in continuous professional growth and development related to the field of teaching and/or specific area(s) of expertise.

Job Qualifications

+ Must hold valid NYS Teacher Certification for Teacher of the Visually Impaired

+ Masters degree in Education required

+ Must be willing and able to travel within Erie 1 BOCES component districts

Position Start Date:08/26/2025

Job Number: 0525-0020