Job Description
FLSA:
Exempt
SALARY SCHEDULE:
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PAY GRADE:
Certified Salary Schedule
BENEFITS:
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SUPERVISOR:
Principal or designee.
SUMMARY:
The early childhood special education teacher will assess and provide intervention to ensure student success and promote an exemplary education program fostering achievement for all students. Develops and promotes good relations among the school community: parents, staff, administration and other community members.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Ability to assess and provide intervention services to students (2 to 5 years of age) who exhibit special needs, and monitor progress toward Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals.
2. Ability to assess and provide intervention to English language learners and students who are on a Response to Intervention (RTI) plan.
3. Familiarity of diagnostic assessments for Early Childhood Special Education.
4. Strong knowledge of content area, teaching methods, learning styles and educational research related to special education students of all levels and abilities.
5. Strong classroom management, communication, organization and planning skills.
6. Positively impact achievement and differentiate instruction based on the needs of the students by supporting programs designed to increase student achievement.
7. Demonstrate problem-solving skills through collaborative work with students, teachers, staff, parents and administrators.
8. Willing to support and actively participate in a professional learning community.
9. Demonstrate an ability to provide small group and individual services to all levels of student ability (service cognitive delay, autism, learning disabled, emotional disabled, and speech/language eligible students).
11. Ability to work cooperatively with the ECE team (classroom teachers, teaching assistants and other special education staff) to provide intervention and consultation regarding the needs of students.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
1. Hold a valid Colorado Early Childhood Special Education License.
2. Proficiency in using technology.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
1. Experience in pediatrics or early childhood preferred.
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT:
•Moderate physical effort (lifting up to 25 pounds)
•Prolonged standing and walking.
•Squatting.
•Frequent bending, reaching, and climbing.
•Occasional lifting, pulling, and pushing.
•Speaking and hearing.
•Visual concentration.
•Eye/hand coordination.
•Manual dexterity to operate a computer keyboard.
•Concentrated reading/writing/mathematics.
•Varying levels of noise.
•Mild/Moderate classroom environment.
•Normal school district environment.
•May work outdoors when monitoring student activities.
•May be required to perform physical restraint.
Last Updated: 03/14/2021