Standard SPED Early Childhood Teacher

We are giving $5,000 in sign-on bonuses!

We are hiring a special education teacher for public elementary schools in Austin TX.

Primary Purpose:

Provide special education students with learning activities and experiences designed to help them fulfill their potential for intellectual, emotional, physical, and social growth. Develop or modify curricula and prepare lessons and other instructional materials to student ability level. Work in self-contained, team, departmental, or itinerant capacity as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

Education/Certification

Bachelor's degree from accredited university

Valid Texas teaching certificate with required endorsement for subject and level assigned or approved alternative certification program

ESL certification preferred

Candidate must have satisfactory outcome of fingerprinting background check. We pay for this in advance.

Knowledge/Skills:

Knowledge of special needs of students in assigned area

Knowledge of Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) Committee process and Individual Education Plan (IEP) goal setting process and implementation

Knowledge of how to adapt curriculum and instruction for special needs

Effective communication skills

Knowledge of subject assigned

General knowledge of curriculum and instruction

Ability to research and develop teaching units

Ability to instruct students and manage their behavior

Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills

Experience:

Student teaching or approved internship or related work experience

Working Conditions:

Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors

• Maintain emotional control under stress.
• Work with frequent interruptions.
• Work irregular hour and extended work hours to include holidays and weekends.
• Frequent walking, standing, stooping, bending, pulling and pushing, lifting, and carrying (may lift and move textbooks and other classroom adaptive equipment).
• May be required under specific circumstances to provide physical restraint of students in danger of causing harm to themselves or others.
• May be required to lift and position students with physical disabilities and assist non-ambulatory students.
• This position may require feeding, diapering, and caring of handicapped students.
• Occasional district wide and statewide travel.
• Use computer for prolonged period resulting in repetitive hand motion.
• Frequent exposure to: temperature extremes (hot and cold), humidity extremes, noise, low or intense illumination vibration.
• Occasional exposure to: biological hazards (communicable diseases, bacteria, etc.), work outside, work around moving objects or vehicles, work on uneven surfaces.