Special Education Teacher

Description

JOB TITLE: Special Education Teacher

DEPARTMENT: YIT School

REPORTS TO: Assistant Director of Education

FLSA STATUS: Exempt

GENERAL PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

• Instruct individuals and groups at appropriate developmental levels and maintain a lesson plan book clearly defining efforts to provide for individual differences.
• Establish and maintain a safe physical environment conducive to learning.
• Plan and execute enrichment experiences such as field trips.
• Write required reports/keep accurate and orderly records.
• Work effectively with other staff members in the interdisciplinary setting to address students’ needs.
• Participate effectively in Interdisciplinary Meetings, staff/teacher meetings, Admission, Review, and Dismissal Committee Meetings, Planning Conferences, in-service training programs, faculty meetings.
• Provide guidance and direction to assigned Assistant Teacher, ensuring that the Assistant Teacher demonstrates a participating role within the classroom.
• Expand on; adapt current curriculum programs to meet student needs.
• Develop individualized education plans for all assigned students.
• Implement school-wide behavior management system.
• Share with other staff coverage for lunch periods, school trips and late bus duty.
• Perform other professional duties, as requested.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Demonstrate applied knowledge of curriculum and the fundamental principles of psychology and human development.
• Demonstrate familiarity with cultural patterns existing within a community that may affect the behavior of students.
• Establish relationships with students on a group and individual basis, gaining their confidence and trust and imparting a sense of security.
• Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Physically intervene and restrain students, male and female, as necessary.
• Able to work cooperatively with others.
• Able to organize and plan the activities of Assistant Teachers, Program Aides, and 1:1 Aides.

Qualifications

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Teaching assistants and IEP aides present in the classroom.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs. percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

REASONING ABILITY:

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• Certificated by Maryland State Department of Education in special education, or in the process of having application for provisional certification reviewed by the Maryland State Department of Education.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• • Frequent walking, standing, climbing stairs.
  • Occasional activities that require pushing, pulling, lifting up to 15-20 pounds.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Classroom setting.
• Moderate noise (examples: business office with computers and printers, light traffic).