What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sam Houston Elementary Part Time Special Education Teacher position at Sam Houston Elementary?
SHE Special Education Teacher- Part Time
Position:
- Part-time without benefits (29 hours per week)
- Start date July 2025
- Application Deadline: April 25th or until filled
- All candidates that make it to the interview round will be notified
Qualifications:
- Current TN Teaching Certificate
o Preferred Endorsements include special education 144/460 (elementary interventionist) AND 461 (comprehensive)
o Applicants with only a 461 (comprehensive) endorsement or provisional teaching license in 461 will be considered
o Elementary teaching experience preferred
o Willingness to receive physical intervention and verbal de-escalation training and serve on the school’s crisis management team. Training occurs during the summer.
Application Procedure:
- Complete an online application on the Maryville City Schools website https://mcsd.schoolspring.com/ - Email resume and cover letter to Molly Rice, Principal, at molly.rice@maryville-schools.org
Job Description:
Provide instructional, academic, social-emotional/behavior, adaptive and/or prevocational support via direct instruction, co-teaching, and/or resource support to students with disabilities in an elementary school. Collaborate with colleagues to provide accommodations, modifications, and interventions within the special and general education curriculums. Manage a caseload of students with a full range of disabilities including moderate academic delays to significant developmental and/or cognitive delays including significant behavioral challenges. Develop lesson plans and teach reading and math and social studies and science as appropriate. This position will work with a continuum of students with low to high academic intervention as well as students with significant behavioral challenges.
Job Expectations:
- Manage a caseload of students with a full range of disabilities.
- Thorough knowledge of the principles and methodology of effective teaching of students with a variety of moderate and comprehensive disabilities.
- Provide high-quality special education services to support students in meeting their IEP goals.
- Serve as a team member in determining and implementing student accommodations, referral, eligibility, placement, and individual education program development.
- Coordinate with general education teachers to ensure students have equal access to inclusion opportunities as appropriate.
- Ability to develop a classroom schedule and individual student schedules effectively utilizing teaching assistant(s) to meet the IEP services and needs of every student. This includes the ability to develop highly individualized student schedules targeting their greatest areas of need including behavioral and sensory needs.
- Comply with district, local, state, and federal policies/procedures/regulations regarding special education records, reports, and services.
- Maintain frequent and substantive communication with parents, teachers, related services personnel, and supervisors. This includes making provisions to be available to students and parents for education-related purposes outside of the instructional day when required or requested to do so under reasonable terms.
- Assess students’ needs and develop a compliant and high-quality individualized education program (IEP) for students with disabilities. Assess the accomplishments of students through effective data collection and provide progress reports as required.
- Maintain a positive working relationship with team members to develop, coordinate, implement, and evaluate school curriculum and assessments.
- Create and maintain a classroom climate that is conducive to the learning process. This includes establishing a strong positive behavioral support system within the classroom and for each child. Initiate and maintain positive relationships with parents through effective communication.
- Supervise and train educational assistants supporting students within the classroom as necessary.
- Dedication to equal access and personal growth for all students.
- Communicate with outside private agencies as necessary to support a student with wrap-around services.
- Commitment to continuing education and lifelong learning. This includes attendance at all required SHE and MCS professional development as well as self-directed professional development.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the Principal or Special Education Director.
- Ability to demonstrate irreproachable loyalty to district, school, staff, and administration.
