Early Childhood Special Education Teacher 25-26 School Year

EARLY CHILDHOOD SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER

Job Title:  Early Childhood Special Education Teacher

Department: Special Education

Education Level and Certification:  Bachelor's degree required. Must at all times during employment possess a Nebraska Teaching Certificate with such endorsements as required by NDE Rule 10 and all other certification and training as required or assigned.

Additional Education, Certification or Licensure Requirements:

Endorsement: Early Childhood Inclusive 4Endorsement appropriate for the instructional responsibility assigned to the teacher (grade level and disability) as required by NDE Rules 24 and 51, in addition to all other required or assigned certification and training. 

Terms of Employment: 185 Day Contract / Schedule 4

Reports To:  Special Education Director 

Performance Responsibilities and Job Tasks:  

1. Implement appropriate diagnostic procedures to determine special education eligibility in accordance with Nebraska Rule 51 and Rule 52 criteria.
2. Accept referrals and schedule evaluations within a reasonable period of time.
3. Stay informed of and complete state reporting for Teaching Strategies GOLD/Results Matter.
4. Communicate with district personnel, Early Development Network, related service providers and outside agencies regarding referrals, evaluation progress, and child/family goals and needs, as appropriate.
5. Provide services to children and families during flexible times at flexible settings, including homes and other agreed-upon environments.
6. Provide continuous service for birth to age 3 population and preschool children who qualify for extended school year services.
7. Engage in evidence-based intervention practices for early intervention.
8. Work with children and families within activities of daily living, functional living skills, and other routines-based activities.
9. Complete required special education paperwork from the referral process through multidisciplinary team meetings.
10. Provide progress reports for students on a schedule as dictated by individual student/family plans
11. Write comprehensive diagnostic report for completed evaluations.
12. Lead routines-based interviews and incorporates gathered information into child- and family-based goals as appropriate.
13. Seek out and participate in staff development activities to maintain and improve professional skills.
14. Manage caseloads including:
1. Preparing, scheduling and conducting IEPs, IFSPs, and MDT’s on or before anniversary date
2. Adding, changing, and updating student and parent information in SRS
3. Adding, changing, and updating team members in SRS
15. Attend regularly scheduled and other announced special education meetings.
16. Assist the contracting school district and ESU 13 in providing the Nebraska Department of Education with required forms and reports
18. Establish and maintain effective working relationships with children, students, parents, staff, administration, and the general public
19. Attend regularly scheduled and other announced special education meetings and training as requested.
20. Comply with NDE Rule 51 guidelines.

Working Conditions

1. Inside offices and classrooms.
2. Outside for activities with students and student supervision.  

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.  

Essential Functions:  The essential functions of the Early Childhood SPED 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:

It is the policy of ESU 13 to not discriminate on the basis of sex, disability, race, color, religion, veteran status, national or ethnic origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition, or other protected status in its educational programs, admission policies, employment policies or other administered programs. Persons requiring accommodations to apply and/or be considered for positions are asked to make their request to the ESU 13 Administrator.