Teacher, Alternative Program (2025-2026)

Green Hills Area Education Agency is looking to fill a Teacher, Alternative Program in the Council Bluffs Juvenile Detention Center for the 2025-2026 school year.

We offer a competitive starting wage and excellent benefits, including IPERS. Green Hills pays 100% of employee single coverage for medical, dental and vision. We also offer family insurance at a great rate.

Qualifications:

Iowa teaching license with a special education endorsement required. K-12 Instructional Strategist I or II endorsement and classroom experience is preferred.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The teacher will be responsible for assisting students in the classroom in the areas of instruction, behavioral, or emotional needs based on each individual student.
• Promote a positive learning climate for students of all ages in the classroom.
• Establish and maintain community-school relationships to achieve and maintain continuity of the classroom for students being served.
• Facilitate development and monitor measurable objectives for individual education plans (IEP) as needed.
• Communicate regularly with parents, staff, community agencies,and students about progress when appropriate.
• Regular and timely attendance as scheduled is required
• Develop and distribute progress reports as required, recording progress in the student’s IEP when appropriate.
• Collecting, tracking and entering in ACHIEVE student behavior progress and programs implemented to achieve desired behaviors.
• Complete training and use, when necessary, Crisis Prevention Techniques (CPI).
• Develop lesson plans appropriate for each individual student.
• Assist in the development of strategies that compliment the efforts of general education teachers for inclusive classrooms/settings.
• Collaborate with district and agency staff and other community staff members on the status of instruction for students in the program as they transition in/out of the program.
• Provide crisis intervention and behavior management services to students and their families.
• Serves as a member of diagnostic teams; member of educational planning and placement committees; provides liaison services for students to teachers, administration, community agencies and family.
• Assign and schedule daily duties of paraprofessionals in the classroom.

Green Hills AEA is committed to being Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage all qualified individuals to apply.