MSD Teacher 2024-2025

FOR THIS TYPE OF EMPLOYMENT, STATE LAW REQUIRES A STATE AND NATIONAL CRIMINAL HISTORY BACKGROUND CHECK AND A CHILD ABUSE/NEGLECT (CAN) CHECK AS A CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT.

SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER

• Has a prepared lesson plan that is sufficient for instructing the lesson.
• Exercises proper care of materials and equipment.
• Communicates needs of the classroom to the proper personnel.
• Arrives for work at the assigned hour and does not leave before the assigned time.
• Communicates appropriately and effectively with other staff members, parents, students, and with administration.
• Accepts assistance, advice, and guidance from people responsible for supervising his/her performance, and makes a concerted effort toward improving or refining skills.
• Shares ideas, plans, materials, and facilities.
• Alert to the district's, school's, and his/her own goals and priorities and seeks professional development appropriate to these needs.
• Keeps in confidence information that has been obtained in the course of professional service, unless disclosure serves professional purpose or is required by law.
• The teacher, in his/her association with others, respects the rights, feelings, and differences among individuals, and communicates directly with the person(s) involved in any situation.
• While exercising his/her contractual responsibilities, complies with those state and local restrictions pertaining to the use of controlled substances, tobacco products, alcohol, and dress.
• Does not verbally or physically harass students.
• Does not use profanity in the presence of students.
• Does not have any sexual contact with students.
• Diagnoses the learning needs of each student, and prescribes individual I.E.P's to meet those needs.
  
  

Job Description

Special Education Teacher

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• Acts as a resource person with other teachers and parents to promote understanding of special education student needs, and to provide assistance in working with handicapped students.
• Keeps data to document student change.
• Is familiar with and implements due process and procedures, and keeps proper documentation.
• Assimilates and applies suggestions from related service personnel.
  
  

Standards - Employs classroom management techniques that result in an atmosphere for teaching/learning in which students can know what they are expected to do.

• Classroom Management
• The teacher begins the class promptly.
• The teacher communicates to students those behaviors expected of them, or there is evidence that expected behaviors have been communicated.
• Student exhibit classroom behaviors, which allow for maximum on-task behavior from all participants in the lesson.
• Inappropriate behaviors receive immediate and appropriate teacher intervention.
• Materials
• The teacher chooses appropriate materials and/or equipment for teaching a lesson.
• The teacher handles efficiently the materials and/or equipment in the classroom setting.
  
  

Planning for Instruction - Plan effectively with respect to establishing teaching strategies, which allow the attainment, by the students, of the lesson's behavioral objective.

• The teacher utilizes a clinical approach to teaching. (Adequate diagnosis and prescription of evidence by students' learning.)
• The teacher uses Diagnostic Lesson Plan Format, Instructional Lesson Plan Format, or Review Lesson Plan Format, as appropriate.
• The behavioral objective for the lesson is appropriate for the learners.
  
  

Teaching the Lesson - Recognizes student differences in needs, abilities, and interests and imparts instruction so that these differences are met.

• Tells the student exactly what is to be learned in the lesson.
• Tells the student the purpose of the learning and makes it meaningful to their lives.
• Relates the learning from the lesson being taught to previous learnings and verbalizes transfer for the students.
• Students are told how they will be accountable for demonstrating proficiency in the learning.
• Gives students information about the learning.
• Demonstrates sound, up-to-date knowledge of the subject matter being taught.
• Checks periodically throughout the lesson for the students' understanding of the objective.
  
  

Job Description

Special Education Teacher

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• Provides practice experiences for the students of the appropriate number and variety to insure mastery of the objective.
• Carefully monitors the guided practice for experience to insure that students get immediate feedback as to the correctness of their performance.
• Demonstrates knowledge of reinforcement theory throughout the lesson.
• Each aspect of the lesson gives evidence of the teacher's attention to maintaining a classroom climate conducive to learning (Feeling Tone).
• The activities of the lesson demonstrate the teacher's desire to include the interests of the students in the classroom.
• Encourages, praises, and/or acknowledges student effort appropriately.
• Manages instruction in such a way that each student shows some measure of success.
• There is evidence that practice is scheduled in such a manner as to guarantee retention of learnings.
• Gives students the opportunity to verbalize the critical attribute(s) of the learning before leaving the lesson.
• Collects data from the lesson that enables him/her to evaluate each student's performance, and assists in planning tomorrow's lesson.