Educational Interpreter - Crown Point High School

Position Type:

Exceptional Education

Date Posted:

11/17/2025

Location:

Crown Point High School

Date Available:

11/24/2025

Position Title:

Educational Interpreter

Location Code:

Central Office

Department:

Exceptional Education

Employee Status:

Employee

Revision Date:

6/10/2021

Full-time/ Part time Status:

Part Time

FLSA Status:

Excluded

Working Period:

194 Days

Bargaining Unit Status:

no

Date Approved by Board:

Qualifications, Education and Licensure: The Educational Interpreter must be able to perform the attached essential job functions and satisfactorily demonstrate the competencies for certified staff. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Requirements:

Proof of high school diploma or the equivalent

Verification of passage of the EIPA written test

Verification of 3.5 or higher on EIPA skill test

PRIMARY FUNCTION:

The educational interpreter's primary function is to facilitate communication among students who are deaf or hard of hearing, their hearing peers, the classroom teacher and other personnel in the school system. The educational interpreter provides interpreting and support services to students who are deaf or hard of hearing being educated in the school district. Other duties that may be performed when they do not interfere with interpreting include tutoring, participation in meetings and being an active member of the school's educational team.

Responsibilities:

The primary role of the educational interpreter is to serve as a facilitator of communication: to interpret. When the need arises for both interpreting and some other task (e.g. recess/hall supervision, tutoring, etc.), interpreting takes priority and should not be interrupted.

Provide interpreting and/or transliterating services for students who are deaf or hard of hearing, in student's modality, in the school setting.

Participate in educational team activities either in person or via a report. Activities may include team meeting, Individualized Education Program (IEP) conference and/or informal staffings. Input from the interpreter may involve information regarding communication strategies and progress related to the child's use of the interpreter.

Serve as a liaison between the students who are deaf or hard of hearing, hearing peers, staff and faculty members.

Consult and communicate with TOD and assist in providing in-services to hearing students, staff and parents as requested in regard to sign language, deafness, Deaf culture, interpreting and consumer education.

Provide interpreting for school functions outside of the classroom, extracurricular activities and parent meetings when requested in advance.

Perform other duties assigned by the principal when this does not conflict with the primary responsibility of interpreting.

At times, when it does not interfere with their service as interpreters, educational interpreters may be asked to assist the teacher with some of the more routine classroom duties.

Use any scheduled preparation time to preview materials, conference with teachers, record data in logs, research signs, etc.

Maintain confidentiality: "What goes on in the classroom stays in the classroom." Maintain professional standards as delineated in the Code of Ethics of the national Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf.

ADA Physical Demands:

The physical demands here are representative of those that must be met by the employee to perform the essential duties and responsibilities of the position successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The position requires frequent changes in sitting, standing and walking throughout the day. The employee may also need to do frequent bending and/or kneeling in order to reach technology components. The employee must frequently speak and hear as well as utilize the telephone and computer. The position requires lifting and carrying technology components.