We are seeking a full-time Severe 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.
Severe 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.