Special Education Classroom- South Side (Parental Leave)

This position is in a special education classroom and would be from August 11, 2025 to October 3 2025

CONCORD COMMUNITY SCHOOLS

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Teacher, Learning Disabled

TYPE OF POSITION: Certified

REPORTS TO: Building Principal

POSITION PURPOSE: Teaches elementary and secondary school subjects to students with neurological problems in learning by performing the following duties.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily.

• Plans curriculum and prepares classes and other instructional materials to meet individual need of student, considering state and school requirements, physical, emotional, and educational levels of development.
• Confers with parents and administrators, testing specialists, social workers, and other to develop educational programs of students.
• Instructs students in academic subjects.
• Creates learning materials gearing to each student’s ability and interests.
• Instructs students through the special educational strategies, techniques to improve sensory-motor and perceptual-motor development, perception, memory, language, cognition, social and emotional development.
• Works with students to increase motivation, provides consistent reinforcement for learning, continuous assessment of level functioning, and continues feedback to students of all learning activities.
• Works with parents and staff to develop skills in dealing with student’s learning impairment, may work as a consultant, and teach in the self-contained classroom.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
  
  

Qualifications

• Appropriate certification as required by the Indiana Department of Education.
• Ability to communicate effectively with groups of students and parents.
• Skills in human relations.
• Ability to plan and organize; good work habits.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from administrators, teachers, and school staff.
• Other qualifications as deemed desirable by the School Board.
  
  

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee may also have to exert up to ten (10) pounds of force occasionally.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
  
  

WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• There are no environmental hazards indicated for this position.
  
  

TERMS: Length of year and salary to be determined by the School Board.

EVALUATION: Evaluation of performance on this job will be in accordance with the provisions in the policy handbook.