What are the responsibilities and job description for the Special Education Teacher - COMPASS Program position at Woodville Elementary School?
Qualifications:
- Moderate or Severe Special Needs Certification required
- Experience working with students with significant social/emotional impairments/disabilities.
- Experience/background knowledge of Social Emotional Learning Curriculum and implementation
- Experience creating and implementing programming that supports the needs of students in both inclusion and Special Education settings
- Experience collaborating with general education teachers to create plans that support academic, social, and emotional learning of students on caseload
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage all aspects of special education caseload of students in grades 2-4, ensuring implementation of and compliance with all mandates related to IEP process.
- Provide, if necessary, small group instruction of grade level content
- Develop therapeutic service delivery model in which all students improve social/emotional competencies to become self-sufficient and independent learners.
- Establish and maintain regular two-way communication with parents
- Manage and direct paraprofessionals to support the needs of students
- Collaborate with outside agencies to support social emotional team model, as appropriate
- Support transitions for students from elementary therapeutic programming and into high school therapeutic programming.
- Perform all such duties as assigned by the Principal and Administration of Special Education.
The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the American with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position. Additional duties are performed by the individuals currently holding this position and additional duties may be assigned.
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.
Salary : $63,302 - $119,318