Special Education Teacher

SUMMARY: The special education teacher provides specialized instruction to meet the unique needs of students who have learning, mental, emotional, or physical disabilities. The special education teacher adapts general education lessons, evaluates and assesses student progress against instructional objectives, follows State mandated due process procedures, and functions as the IEP Manager to assigned students. 

SPECIFIC JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Writes benchmark and goal aligned IEPs for students.
2. Conducts IEP reviews as needed to amend student schedules or accommodations, to add or revise FBAs and/or behavior plans and for all other reason stated in rules and regulations.
3. Becomes familiar with Mississippi IDEA regulations and adheres to them.
4. Participates in IEP reviews with special education teachers in upper and lower adjacent grades and plans a smooth transition for students for the next year.
5. Teaches and supervises activities in special education and inclusion settings.
6. Provides IEP goal and accommodation sheets, for each student on the special education teacher's roster, to all teachers who teach the students.
7. Completes paperwork by deadlines given by building principal and/or Student Support Office.
8. Complies with all IDEA timelines for evaluation, IEP, and reporting.
9. Records student progress on IEP and sends it to parents at least quarterly.
10. Confers frequently with general education teachers and other service providers about Special Education students.
11. Monitors progress of students’ IEP goals biweekly.
12. Reports regularly and punctually to assigned work location and notifies supervisor or designee of impending absence in a timely manner.
13. Follows all regulations set forth in the general education teachers’ job description.
14. Promotes a positive image of the school district program to the public.
15. Performs other duties/responsibilities as directed by the building level principal or Director of Student Support Services.

 MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Bachelor’s degree in special education.
2. Valid Mississippi license with endorsement in special education (208 – 224)

 DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Two years experience in special education or elementary classroom.
2. Master’s degree in special education.