Special Education Teacher Moderate - Severe
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide direct and indirect instructional support to students in a positive environment.
- Develops lesson plans and instructional material according to PHA academic curriculum requirements and procedures;
- Employ special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory and perceptual-motor skills, language cognition, and memory.
- Prepares, plans and attends IEP meetings;
- Conducts student assessments to determine progress towards educational goals;
- Determines student’s academic and behavioral goals and objectives necessary for progress reports;
- Produces progress reports on a quarterly basis;
- Implements and maintains treatment/intervention plans;
- Collaborates with school personnel and parents on educational/behavioralservices plan;
- Participates in transporting students during community based instruction;
- Reviews reports, interprets test/assessment data;
- Coordinates related support services with DIS providers;
- Collaborates with school and district medical personnel on medical care protocols if necessary;
- Writes reviews and approves Incident Reports;
- Supervise classroom staff;
- Provides mentoring and coaching to classroom staff;
- Conducts performance evaluation reviews for all classroom staff;
- Supervises data entry and reviews data collection to ensure consistency of the intervention strategies;
- Works closely with the Behavior Consultant on developing and implementing Positive Behavior Support Plans;
- Promotes a positive and welcoming atmosphere to encourage collaboration;
- Maintains a safe psychological and physical classroom environment;
- Conducts necessary staff meetings to ensure classroom activities are in line with PHA policies and procedures;
- Continues professional education by attending training required by PHA;
- Attends professional workshops and meetings to promote professional growth;
- Communicates with transportation administrator on all student transportation issues;
- Enters student data into database;
- Performs other duties and responsibilities
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- A demonstrated understanding of growth and developmental stages of students with autism and related developmental disabilities;
- A demonstrated understanding of the IEP process;
- Ability to understand and modify accordingly appropriate academic curriculum;
- Ability to utilize modern teaching techniques and methods in a classroom with special needs;
- A demonstrated understanding of all applicable laws and regulations;
- Ability to follow Precious Hearts Academy policies and procedures;
- Ability to operate a vehicle in order to travel to other sites and locations;
- Ability to compose and comprehend written and oral communication;
- Ability to handle difficult situations that may arise with students, parents, coworkers;
- Maintain sensitivity to ethnic, religious, cultural, economic and sexual differences;
- Ability to write, read and speak in English.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four (4) year college/university is required;
- Must possess moderate-severe credentials.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Employees must be physically and mentally able to perform the essential duties of a position with or without reasonable accommodation and without being a danger to themselves or others;
- Must meet all Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) standards and safety requirements (light duty is not available).
This is not necessarily a list of all duties, responsibilities, skills, requirements, efforts or working conditions associated with this job. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change. This job description replaces all previously written job descriptions for this position.This job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or the employer may terminate employment with PHA at any time, for any reason, with or without prior notice. Precious Hearts Academy is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees in accordance with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws and regulations.