What are the responsibilities and job description for the Special Education Teacher - Skills Program (Sub-Sep) position at Blanche A. Ames Elementary?
We are seeking a full-time Special Education teacher to join our team. This position will support a caseload of students, serve as their liaison, and teach substantially separate academic classes.
Moderate License Required
Experience with Applied Behavior Analysis and DTT is beneficial.
Provides direct services for children in integrated and pullout settings as determined by IEP’s.
Develop modifications to assist students in the regular classrooms.
Participates as a member of the evaluation team when appropriate.
Regularly use two-way communication with families about student performance and learning and respond promptly and carefully to communications from families.
Always communicate respectfully with families and demonstrate understanding of and sensitivity to different families’ home language, culture, and values.
Evaluates children who have been referred, developing appropriate reports and IEP’s as required.
Trains classroom Educational Support Personnel as necessary.
Works cooperatively with other personnel and parents.
Within and beyond the classroom, consistently reinforce schoolwide behavior and learning expectations for all students, and contribute to their learning by sharing responsibility for meeting their needs.
Ability to design units of instruction with measurable outcomes and challenging tasks requiring higher-order thinking skills that enable students to learn the knowledge and skills defined in state standards/local curricula.
Regularly reflect on the effectiveness of lessons, units, and interactions with students, both individually and with colleagues, and use insights gained to improve practice and student learning.
Propose challenging, measurable professional practice, team, and student learning goals that are based on thorough self-assessment and analysis of student learning data.
Ability to design well-structured lessons with challenging, measurable objectives and appropriate student engagement strategies, pacing, sequence, activities, materials, resources, technologies, and grouping.
Salary : $54,654 - $110,057