What are the responsibilities and job description for the Secondary Education Teacher position at Woodward Academy?
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
· Provide a learning environment to motivate youth to take responsibility for their education.
· Prepare daily lesson plans and instruct groups, providing in depth attention students as necessary.
· Assess each student’s learning style; design and implement curriculum, instructional strategies, and materials appropriate for the youth.
· Communicate, orally and in writing, all appropriate information, both within the classroom and outside the classroom (in the log and in youth charts) and to relevant outside agencies.
· Stimulate interest and cooperation in individual and group classes and activities and observe youth behavior in response to treatment efforts.
· Ensure attendance of students in all classes and other activities and check on normative behavior.
· Complete all necessary paperwork to insure proper recording of student progress, including daily attendance records and progress reports for grading periods and Individual Education Plans.
· Maintain order in the classroom by providing classroom expectations to students.
· Maintain emergency lesson plans for use by substitutes.
· Maintain proper norms and security of youth and provide crisis intervention as necessary.
· Supervise youth in order to observe or effect changes in their social behavior, and to maintain security of facility and grounds for community protection.
· Participate in the treatment of the student through observation, interaction, scoring, limit setting, and implementation of treatment plans; assist in the development of a positive peer culture.
· Report significant changes in social behavior and make recommendations for changes by participating in Treatment Team meetings.
· Escort students to work, mealtime, recreation, education activities, and participate in their supervision and instruction.
· Limited one-to-one counseling.
· Give basic instruction in work, recreation, and housekeeping activities.
· Abide by The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (42 USC & 201 et seq.)
· All other duties as assigned.
