Certified - Special Education Teacher Grades K-2

Position Title: Special Education Teacher Grades K-2

Job ID#: 1834

Assignment: Elementary School 

Reports to: Building Principal 

Date Available: 2025-2026 School Year 

Contract: 186 days 

Crete Public Schools is seeking qualified applicants for a Special Education Teacher for grades K-2 at Crete Elementary School for the 2025-2026 school year. Benefits include paid health insurance, long-term disability insurance, and personal and sick leave. This position is open until filled. 

Essential Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s Degree required 
• Nebraska Teaching Certificate with appropriate endorsement 
• Satisfactory completion of criminal background check

Required Job Tasks:

1. Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students

    for whom they are responsible.

2. Observe and evaluate students'; performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
3. Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to

    students.
4. Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students’ varying needs and interests.
5. Instruct through lectures, discussions, and demonstrations in one or more subjects, such as

    English, mathematics, or social studies.

6. Prepare, administer, and grade tests and assignments in order to evaluate students' progress.
7. Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that

    provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
8. Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and

    administrative regulations.

9. Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
10. Assign lessons and correct homework.
11. Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.
12. Confer with parents or guardians, teachers, counselors, and administrators in order to

    resolve students'; behavioral and academic problems.

13. Prepare students for later grades by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to

    persevere with challenging tasks.

14. Prepare objectives and outlines for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or

    requirements of the State and the school district.

15. Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's' progress and to determine priorities

    for their children and their resource needs.

16. Guide and counsel students with adjustment or academic problems, or special academic interests.
17. Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students'; needs and progress.
18. Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.
19. Prepare for assigned classes and show written evidence of preparation upon request of immediate

    supervisors.

20. Perform administrative duties such as assisting in school libraries, hall and cafeteria monitoring,

    and bus loading and unloading.

21. Administer standardized ability and achievement tests and interpret results to determine student

    strengths and areas of need.

22. Organize and supervise games and other recreational activities to promote physical, mental, and

    social development.
23. Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers or other experiential

    activities, and guide students in learning from those activities.

24. Select, store, order, issue, and inventory classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.

25. Serve as a role model to all students.
26. Serve as a positive member of the community in a way that does not negatively affect the District’s

    reputation or image in the community.

27. Refrain from engaging in conduct that interferes with the operations of the District, including the

    education of students.
28. Develop and maintain a positive and professional working relationship with other staff and

    administration.
29. Adhere to all District policies, rules, regulations, and supervisory directives.
30. Maintain confidentiality of information concerning staff, students, and parents in accordance with

    law and District rules.
31. Adhere to the code of ethics of the District and the Nebraska Department of Education

    (NDE Rule 27).

Additional Performance Responsibilities and Job Tasks:

1. Maintain all pertinent NDE electronic documents including:

• Maintaining current team member access
• Maintaining current student and parent information
• Finalizing all documents
• Opening progress reports in timely fashion for related service providers.

1. Manage caseloads including:

• Preparing, scheduling and conducting IEP’s and MDT’s on or before anniversary date
• Managing monthly roster including insuring that:
• Special education percentages accurately reflect services and are in compliance with what is stated on the IEP
• New IEP/MDT dates are recorded accurately
• Indicating all related services and other information

1. Provide services as directed in IEP.
2. Develop a working knowledge of students on case load as it pertains to providing special education services.

1. Document all parent interactions (phone calls, notes, etc.).
2. Supervise paraprofessionals.
3. Conduct formal and informal diagnostic observations and evaluations.
4. Communicate with district and outside agencies.
5. Attend regularly scheduled and other announced special education meetings.
6. Comply with NDE Rule 51 guidelines.

Additional or Different Physical Requirements:

1. Must be able to fulfill restraint training procedures.

FLSA Status: Exempt 

Professional exemption: The employee has a primary duty of performing work requiring knowledge of an advanced type in a field of science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and study or has a primary duty of teaching, tutoring, instructing, or lecturing in the activity of imparting knowledge and is employed and engaged in this activity as a teacher.

Other Responsibilities:

Perform other tasks or duties as assigned by the Superintendent or Principal.

Essential Functions:

The essential functions of the Teacher position include: (1) regular, dependable in-person attendance on the job; (2) the ability to perform the identified tasks and to possess and utilize the identified knowledge, skills, and abilities and to perform the identified work activities; and (3) the ability to perform the following identified physical requirements: