The DS-Plus Early Intervention Educator integrates a range of teaching and learning approaches and identifies new approaches to conduct lessons/activities for children in the preschool setting.
Key Roles:
- Providing chance for the children to reinforce skills like speech and language skills, socio-communication skills, fine and gross motor skills, literacy skills, and self-help skills in the preschool settings.
- Enriching children's learning through implementing curriculum, and adapting and integrating developmentally appropriate teaching and classroom engagement strategies.
- Creating quality natural learning environment and facilitates children's development and learning in the preschool.
- Partnering with families and caregivers and coordinates with community stakeholders, and social service providers to support the delivery of Centre initiatives, programmes and services.
- Carrying out data collection for inquiry projects.
- Being thoughtful, calm and loves working with children and have strong interpersonal skills.
- Working in varied settings such as in Early Intervention Centre and/or preschools.
- Working in a transdisciplinary team in the course of his/her work.
Job Responsibilities:
Plan and implement curriculum and programmes
- Integrate a range of teaching and learning approaches to meet diverse needs of children with developmental needs
- Develop activity plans and teaching materials that are appropriate to use in preschool
- Adapt a range of developmentally appropriate materials and resources to create quality learning environment
- Review health, safety, nutritional and hygiene practices in accordance with standards and procedures
- Identify new teaching and learning or inclusive approaches to suit the profile of children that he/she is teaching
- Conduct EIPIC & preschool observation, Brigance screening and assessment of children's strengths and needs according to their developmental milestones
- Prepare DS-Plus timeline and IEP based on screening and observation outcomes and discuss with EIPIC team (for Step-down cases) and preschool teachers
- Prepare for the presentation of screening outcomes
Manage family and community programmes
- Identify learning strategies for family and community (i.e., preschool) programmes and initiatives
- Suggest strategies for family and community on child's needs, with trans-disciplinary team consultations
- Support or co-planning the development of outreach activities to create awareness on centre programmes and services
- Implement centre, family, and community initiatives and programmes
Uplift professional practice of early intervention teaching
- Engage in systematic reflective practice
- Support the implementation of new intervention methods, tools and assistive technologies based on emerging Early Intervention and sector trends
- Collect data for consolidation and refinement
- Support conceptualisation of inquiry projects
- Provide feedback on applicability of proposed teaching and intervention practices based on inquiry findings
- Share suggestions to improve DS-Plus processes
Deliver interventions
- Prepare children's e-files, reports (i.e., IEP, Weekly Progress Monitoring, Email updates, Transition Report, Discharge Report) and closure of cases
- Deliver interventions using appropriate methods, tools and assistive technologies to support learning under supervision
- Deliver approprate strategies/ activities at preschools using inclusive practices/ strategies supervision will be provided to ensure smooth delivery of intervention
- Implement appropriate classroom engagement strategies
- Track children's learning progress, goals and family priorities in coordination with other social service and healthcare professionals
- Write and submit reports (i.e., GCO summary, IEP, School Report, Discharge Report etc), update SSNet data in a timely manner
Collaborate with families and stakeholders across disciplines
- Partner with families and caregivers to enhance child and family outcomes
- Coordinate centre activities with teachers, support staff, volunteers, social service and healthcare professionals
- Coordinate with community stakeholders, volunteers and social service providers to support the implementation of programmes and services
- Conduct discussions or meetings (i.e., IEP meeting, Case Conferences, Joint-Meeting with Aops, etc) weekly review as a key worker
- Work in Transition Support workplan to improve Transition Support programme
- Co-plan activities with the preschool teachers to model the strategies
- Provide coaching to parents & preschool teachers to work on the strategies at home or in class
- Use HEART narratives
Qualifications
- Specialist Diploma in Early Childhood Intervention (Special Needs) (SDESN) or ADESN
- Degree or Diploma in Early Childhood Education, Special Education or related fields from recognized institutions
Other Information
- 1 to 3 years of experience working with families and children in a preschool or early intervention setting
- Mature, independent, creative, flexible thinking and able to motivate children
- Good with people skills
- Able to work independently
- Has good understanding of the diverse cultures and races
- Has patience, love, passion, and commitment in the education of and nurturing young children and empowering the families
- Valid First Aid Certificate preferred
- Keen to develop professionally
