SUMMARY

This position provides instruction to students with special needs and performs a wide variety of tasks with curriculum planning, supervision, presenting and reinforcing learning concepts, and teaching Special Education students in a classroom setting or a resource setting.

DUTIES

• Assist the students with classroom activities.
• Work closely with faculty and staff to identify eligible children for Special Education services.
• Share with parents disseminating information concerning individual student progress and the Special Education program in general.
• Plans a program of study that, as much as possible, meets the individual needs, interests, and abilities of students.
• Guides the learning process toward the achievement of curriculum goals and – in harmony with the goals – establishes clear objectives for all lesson, units, projects, and the like to communicate these objectives to students.
• Employs instructional methods and materials that are most appropriate for meeting stated objectives.
• Assesses the accomplishments of students on a regular basis and provides progress reports as required.
• Collaborate with colleagues, students, and/or parents on a regular basis, at least quarterly.
• Assists the administration in implementing all policies and/or rules governing, student life and conduct, and, for the classroom, develops reasonable rules of classroom behavior and procedure, and maintains order in the classroom in a fair and just manner.
• Encourages students to set and maintain standards of classroom behavior.
• Discusses assigned duties with classroom teachers in order to coordinate instructional efforts.
• Prepares lesson materials, bulletin board displays, as needed.
• Presents subject matter to students using lectures, and discussions.
• Tutors and assists children individually or in small groups in order to help those master assignments and to reinforce learning concepts presented by teachers.
• Supervises students in classrooms, halls, and on field trips.
• Serves as a resource person, if and when requested, to the student personnel evaluation team conferring about one of the students to whom assigned.
• Distributes teaching materials such as textbooks, workbooks, papers, and pencils to students, as needed.
• Enforces administration policies and rules governing students.
• Completes required reports in a timely manner
• Teaches socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification and positive reinforcement.
• Works with students with multiple physical, mental, and developmental disabilities.
• May work with resistive students as part of the Crisis Intervention Team.
• Maintains a high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
• Perform all other duties reasonably related to position as may be assigned by Building Administrator or Superintendent.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Hold an elementary school certificate K-9 from the State of Illinois or the equivalent certification, which will qualify the teacher for an Illinois teaching certificate.
• Hold a Learning Behavior Specialist I (LBSI) endorsement.
• Hold a teaching certificate or endorsement in one of the following areas; serious emotional disturbance, autism, cognitive disability, orthopedic impairment, traumatic brain injury, and other health impairment.
• Must have excellent Oral and Written communication skills to work with teachers, education support personnel, building administrators and the general public.
• Must be detailed oriented.