Classification

Reports To

Overview

Supervisory Responsibilities

Qualifications

Spiritual and Personal Expectations

• Acknowledges Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
• Commits to faithful active service in a local Christian church and personal prayer and Bible study.
• Commits to model spiritual, academic, physical, and social growth personally and professionally.
• Maintains a Christian lifestyle that reflects the biblical perspective of integrity and appropriate personal and family relationships, personal conduct, and moral behavior.
• Displays a love for students and education.
• Commits to our foundational statements and governing principles.
• Commits to our employee code of conduct.

Skills

• Ability to work collegially and collaboratively while maintaining confidentiality.
• Strong customer service orientation.
• The ability to work as part of a team.
• High level of energy and strong work ethic
• Displays a love for students and education.
• Knowledge of curriculum and standards.
• Depth of subject matter knowledge.
• Diversity of instructional methodology.
• Knowledge of learners.
• Strong rapport with students.
• Excellent communicator with parents and students.
• High, but reasonable, expectations.
• Ability to self-reflect and improve practices in the classroom.
• Perceive, understand, and value differences.
• Approachability.
• Effective and balanced discipline.
• Effective classroom management.
• Patient, caring, and kind.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Creates, prepares, and implements strategies in the classroom that appeal to students with learning and thinking differences.
• Collaborates with peers to use and analyzes data to plan individually and cooperatively for student success and achievement.
• Ensures full implementation of HCA Learning Plans for caseload students
• Develops, monitors, and reviews the Learning Plan of each caseload student, annually or more often as needed.
• Challenges and supports each student’s learning by providing appropriate content and developing skills which address individual learning differences
• Assists all students in achieving academic expectations and establishes high expectations for performance.
• Cooperates with the Board and administration in implementing all policies, procedures, and directives governing the operation of the school.
• Notifies the administration of any policy he/she is unable to support.
• Maintains regular and accurate attendance and grade records to meet the demands for a comprehensive knowledge of each student’s progress.
• Maintains confidentiality of students and students’ records.
• Facilitates home-school communication through conferences, telephone calls, and written communication.
• Keeps students, parents, and the administration adequately informed of progress
• Attends and participates in scheduled orientation, devotions, in-service retreat, committee meetings, faculty meetings, and staff development programs.
• Be punctual and reports to work as assigned.
• Knows the procedures for dealing with issues of an emergency nature.
• Maintains a clean, attractive, well-ordered classroom.
• Supervises extra-curricular activities and organizations as assigned.
• Supports the broader program of the school by attending extra-curricular activities when possible.

Other Duties

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.