Rhode Island College invites applicants for the position of the Teacher of the Visually Impaired. This is a full-time, calendar year, temporary, renewable contingent upon funding position.

The Sherlock Center invites applications for a Teacher of the Visually Impaired, Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities. The individual will work as an itinerant vision educator conducting vision assessments, providing vision instruction and other duties assigned by the director. The Paul V. Sherlock Center on Disabilities, founded at Rhode Island College in 1993, is a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD). UCEDDs are evidence driven and designed to advance policies, practices and research that improve the health, education, social and economic well-being of people with disabilities, their families, and their communities. The mission of the Sherlock Center is to promote membership of individuals with disabilities in school, work and the community.

Rhode Island College is a regional comprehensive public college that serves approximately 6,400 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students through its five schools the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Feinstein School of Education and Human Development, the School of Business, the School of Nursing and the School of Social Work. Established in 1854, we are Rhode Island’s first public institution of higher education. The college is located on a beautiful 180-acre suburban campus in the vibrant city of Providence, and has satellite locations at the Rhode Island Nursing Education Center in Providence’s Innovation District and the Rhode Island College Workforce Development Hub in Central Falls, RI. We are known throughout the Northeast for high-quality academic programs, small class sizes, personalized, hands-on learning experiences, world-class faculty, and high value compared to other four-year institutions.

Required qualifications:
·  Bachelor’s degree in Education of children who are blind or visually impaired.
·  Experience with children who are blind or visually impaired.
·  Eligible for Rhode Island Teacher Certification as a Teacher of Children who are blind and visually impaired.

Preferred qualifications:
·  Master’s Degree

Application deadline: Open until filled

Proposed starting salary: $57,513-$104,902

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