What are the responsibilities and job description for the Classroom Teacher - Richmond Campus position at RITI?
Description
General Description
To manage a special education classroom including student instruction and assessment, data collection and analysis, staff training, and overall organizational behavior management.
Essential Core Responsibilities
Instruction
Experience Requirements
General Description
To manage a special education classroom including student instruction and assessment, data collection and analysis, staff training, and overall organizational behavior management.
Essential Core Responsibilities
Instruction
- Presents Instruction to students based on assessment data and IEP/IIP/VAAP/SOLs across the instructional day
- Assesses progress to inform the IEP and curricular goals
- Collects and analyzes student and staff data to inform programmatic and training needs
- Arranges the learning environment to maximize progress, independence, and safety
- Creates and uses functional, socially significant, and developmentally appropriate materials
- Conducts preference, educational, adaptive and other necessary assessments in preparation for instructional programming, IEP/IIP meetings, and classroom meetings
- Provides staff training using the TPRA/AILC Observations and individual/group meetings
- Writes IEP/IIP goals, performance descriptions, etc. based on assessment and student learning data
- Reports progress towards IEP/IIP/VAAP/SOL goals and objectives according to designated schedule
- Assesses skills and reports performance/progress for required student assessments (SOL,VAAP, etc.)
- Maintains students’ daily home/school communication books
- Addresses parent and/or local educational agency concerns and brings them to the attention of the Program Supervisor and/or other administrator
- Follows protocols regarding supply requests and other administrative needs
- Maintains daily schedule of students to learning areas
- Ensures the planning of daily activities, including individual and group instructional sessions
- Expectations are clear, well communicated, and relate to the goals and objectives of the program
- Staff receive frequent, constructive feedback and reinforcement for successful completion of job duties
- Conduct regular classroom meetings, communicating any issues to Program Supervisor or other administrator
- Assures staff have the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to accomplish goals
- Provides parents and county educational personnel observational opportunities
- Assures performance issues are addressed and documented as they occur according to Faison policies and procedures
- Conducts performance reviews for all staff under their supervision
- Safety issues are reviewed and communicated to assure a safe and healthy workplace
- Utilizes the progressive disciplinary model, addressing all concerns with staff members under their supervision in a timely manner
- Administers medication, following appropriate training, when needed
- Responds to crisis and medical emergency situations as necessary, following appropriate training
Experience Requirements
- Experience with and the ability to work with children with autism and their families
- Supervisory experience and excellent interpersonal skills
- Knowledge of special education and applied behavior analysis curriculum and assessments
- Previous experience with teaching children with autism
- Teaching skills, analytic skills and experience managing classrooms for students categorized as: pre-listeners, listeners, speakers, speaker-listeners, reader-writers, self-managers and self-editors
- Specific knowledge and experience related to the teaching position applied for (see categories listed above).
- Bachelor’s degree in related subject area required
- Master’s degree in special education or related field preferred
- Certification in Applied Behavior Analysis preferred
- Hold or be eligible for special education teacher licensure in Virginia; once obtained, must maintain appropriate license to remain in position
- Maintains all necessary licensures and completes ongoing professional development training as assigned by supervisors
- Lift 50 pounds (and keep back straight while doing so)
- Bend at all joints fluently
- Move in and out of and maintain a kneeling position for up to five minutes
- Reach in all directions
- Grasp using both hands
- Move quickly in both confined and open spaces to avoid safety issues
- Run in order to retrieve an individual who is moving quickly away from staff
- Maintain balance while lowering to a half squat position