Special Education Teacher

Education: Special Education

This is a full-time, ten-month position to provide general classroom instruction for students with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, serious Emotional disturbances or development delays.   

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Effectively and proactively supervise class structure and schedule.
• Maintain ongoing supervision and evaluation of all students, providing timely and constructive feedback to collaborating personnel and to participate in follow-up planning.
• Maintain documentation and vigilance of student goals and objectives, monitoring progress and reporting successes.
• Monitor and support implementation of prescribed behavior program.
• Effectively supervise bus transitions, meals, recess, and other non-academic responsibilities.
• Participate actively in staff discussions and collaborate through communication in established team meetings.
• Implement and evaluate success of prescribed curriculum and quality instructional techniques.
• Maintain focus on “best practices”, continuously seeking new ideas and techniques to ensure student progress.
• Participate in planning and implementation of quality in-services.
• Promote social responsibility and leadership of support staff and students.
• Promote social responsibility and conflict mediation.
• Maintain a clean and orderly classroom.
• Display student work and stimulate student interest via bulletin boards and room displays.
• Maintain various classroom arrangements conducive to diverse student body.
• Ability to apply a variety of techniques and approaches to meet the range of student levels and skills.

 
 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (continued):

• Ability to individualize instruction according to cognitive and academic styles of learners.
• Engage students in stimulating, multi-modality learning experiences consistent with prescribed curriculum.
• Use appropriate and timely verbal de-escalation techniques whenever possible.
• Collaborate in a safe physical intervention as necessary.
• Encourage students to embrace, multicultural opportunities and experiences.

 
Qualifications:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. 

 
Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Education or a related field.
• Instructional I PA Certification in Special Education K-12
• Valid Pennsylvania Child Abuse, Crminal & FBI clearances.