26-27 McKinley .5 Resource Teacher

About the role

This position is for a part-time Special Education Classroom Teacher within Norman Public Schools. The ideal candidate should hold a current Oklahoma Certificate as a Special Education Teacher and possess a Bachelor's Degree in Special Education.

Responsibilities

• Initiate/Participate in categorical eligibility meetings as an expert in a category of IDEA-BPL 101-746.
• Ensure that each child has a current IEP (Individual Education Plan) with the required signatures.
• Monitor the implementation of IEPs.
• Review and write IEPs on an annual basis.
• Create and maintain a working special education file in a locked cabinet containing teacher assessments, IEPs, psychological evaluations, and pertinent medical information.
• Provide advice on special education issues to the building principal.
• Provide in-service sessions to regular education staff regarding classroom inclusion, intervention, and/or modification techniques.
• Collaborate, consult, and instruct regular education staff regarding classroom expectations and dynamics.
• Assist students in taking prescribed medication(s).
• Lift and/or move non-ambulatory students.
• Diaper and assist students with toileting.
• Adapt foods and assist in feeding students.
• Present a professional appearance appropriate to teaching the assignment.
• Display a well-rounded knowledge and understanding of multicultural issues.
• Perform teaching and reporting requirements identified as part of state and federally funded programs.
• Perform other duties as assigned by your supervisor.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language, including the definition and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Knowledge of mathematics, including arithmetic, and basic computations regarding addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and percentages.
• Knowledge of customer and personal services, including principles and processes for providing customer and personal services.

Skills

• Effective communication skills, including the ability to write legibly and communicate in a clear and grammatically correct manner.
• Ability to interpret and translate facts and information, explain situations and issues, identify alternative courses of action, and maintain confidentiality of sensitive information.
• Oral comprehension, oral expression, written comprehension, written expression, deductive reasoning, near vision, speech clarity, speech recognition, mathematical reasoning, problem sensitivity, near vision, and speech recognition.

Knowledge

• English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language, including the definition and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Mathematics - Knowledge of arithmetic, and basic computations regarding addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and percentages.
• Customer and Personal Services - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services.

Essential Job Functions

• Perform applicable job functions of a Classroom Teacher.
• Initiate/Participate in categorical eligibility meetings as an expert in a category of IDEA-BPL 101-746.
• Ensure that each child has a current IEP (Individual Education Plan) with the required signatures.
• Monitor the implementation of IEPs.
• Review and write IEPs on an annual basis.
• Create and maintain a working special education file in a locked cabinet containing teacher assessments, IEPs, psychological evaluations, and pertinent medical information.
• Provide advice on special education issues to the building principal.
• Provide in-service sessions to regular education staff regarding classroom inclusion, intervention, and/or modification techniques.
• Collaborate, consult, and instruct regular education staff regarding classroom expectations and dynamics.
• Assist students in taking prescribed medication(s).
• Lift and/or move non-ambulatory students.
• Diaper and assist students with toileting.
• Adapt foods and assist in feeding students.
• Present a professional appearance appropriate to teaching the assignment.
• Display a well-rounded knowledge and understanding of multicultural issues.
• Perform teaching and reporting requirements identified as part of state and federally funded programs.
• Perform other duties as assigned by your supervisor.