Hatfield Elementary School is seeking a skilled special education teacher to join our family this spring and onward. HES is a small rural school near large towns and cities. This offers our employees a variety of professional opportunities despite our size. HES enrolls 200-220 kids PK-6 in recent years with a low staff to student ratio. We currently support our more complex learners with a full complement of interdisciplinary staff including full time: speech and language pathologist, occupational therapist, and counselor. We contract or have part time employment with our physical therapist, teacher for the visually impaired, teacher for the deaf/hearing, Autism specialist, school psychologist, and board certified behavior analyst. All staff work closely with our reading and math interventionists, and our ELL teacher. Additionally Hatfield Public Schools is in partnership with River Valley Counseling to provide private services onsite in our buildings. Our core curriculum includes: iReady, Heggerty, Fundations, Worldly Wise, Making Meaning, LexiaCore5, and SRSD. Our key specialized curriculum includes: UFLI, Language for Learning, Framing Your Thoughts, Visualizing and Verbalizing, and LiPs.We are seeking a certified special education teacher familiar with teaching reading, writing, and math in small groups at the elementary level. The teacher should also have experience co-teaching and consulting with general education teachers. Consultation includes providing clarification of in class accommodations provided by teachers, and support to modify classroom content as needed. Teachers should have experience in achievement testing and report writing. Special education teachers provide guidance to and work closely with educational support professionals (previously referred to as paraprofessionals). Key duties include but are not limited to: teaching, planning, observing, progress monitoring, and evaluating students. Special education teachers in Hatfield serve as case-managers who should have the ability to chair consultation or annual review meetings. At this time the director is available to and does chair almost all meetings, and will continue to chair initial and triennial meetings. Caseloads for academic based special education teachers at HES typically range from 15-20, this can change depending on needs. Student services may be shared between providers based on need and schedule. HES currently is structured with: a complex/severe special education teacher, an inclusion specialist special education teacher (serving twice exceptional/SEL needs), two preschool teachers, and two academic focused special education teachers. This position is for one of the academic focused teachers.