Duties
Purpose:
To provide a positive, enthusiastic, nurturing, and caring educator to serve as a special education teacher in a self-contained educational life skills classroom. Candidates must possess a willingness to work towards the development of a continuum of special education programming.
Responsibilities:
- This self-contained program serves students whose disabilities include moderate to severe cognitive impairments.
- Candidate should have at least 3 years experience in working with students with a range of disabilities
- Understands basic classroom management theories and methods; with strategies for individual behavior management, crisis prevention, intervention, de-escalation techniques, and the balance between classroom management with academic teaching strategies.
- This program utilizes use of community resources and functional skills curriculum to address the needs of the students.
- Use various teaching methods to promote learning including intensive individualized instruction, problem-solving assignments, and small-group work.
- A full complement of related service and individualized mainstreaming or integration opportunities are available as recommended by the IEP team.
- Provide physical care as needed: diaper, toilet, feed, reinforce adaptive PE/motor activities per instructions from therapist(s); assist, as needed, with independent living skills; employee may have to use physical ability to lift students and perform other manipulations
- Creates a classroom culture which is a cognitively busy place, characterized by a shared belief in the importance of learning; establishes high expectations and personal achievement.
- Understands the aspects of schedule, routines, and transitions that promote development and learning.
- Demonstrates ways in which technology can assist with creating and managing the learning environment, incorporating the verbal and visual redirection and classroom expectations.
- Provides supervision of paraprofessional educators.
Salary/Benefits
Annualized Salary Range $51,053 - $63,290, Based on experience and education level.
How to Apply
Please follow the link to our online application