Adams Elementary - Special Education Teacher (Resource) - 1.0 FTE

About the role

This position is assigned to the Resource service pathway. For more information about our special education service pathways, visit the SPS Special Education Department website.

Responsibilities

• Fosters an educational environment conducive to the learning and maturation process of assigned special education students;
• Plans an instructional program designed to meet individual student needs;
• Prepares individual student lesson plans;
• Adapts and modifies programs and plans as necessary;
• Uses necessary and appropriate instructional methods and materials;
• Implements established program or curriculum objectives as adapted and modified for the student population;
• Attends in-service training and continues to improve professional growth through study and experimentation to remain current in methods and techniques for special education instruction;
• Establishes and implements, in a positive and supportive manner, classroom policies and procedures governing student behavior and conduct;
• Provides guidance, counseling, and discipline to encourage students to meet standards of achievement and conduct;
• Makes referrals for assistance where appropriate;
• Confers with students, parents or guardians, specialists and other staff;
• Establishes classroom goals and objectives appropriate to the special education student population and their individual education programs;
• Evaluates and records student progress;
• Prepares reports for parents or guardians;
• Directs the activities of assigned non-certificated personnel;
• Attends to or directs staff to attend to the physical, emotional, behavioral, medical, or hygienic needs of students as appropriate;
• Makes observations and evaluations of students' progress;
• Monitors conditions and behaviors;
• Collects and interprets a variety of data;
• Develops, implements and evaluates individual education plans (IEP's);
• Provides reports for administrative purposes;
• Amends documents where appropriate;
• Attends or participates in all required staff meetings and other activities deemed necessary by the District and/or building principal, in order to accomplish the objectives of the position and for professional achievement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree;
• Academic preparation for or experience in teaching a culturally, racially and economically diverse student population in an urban school system, and teaching reading and adapting instructional techniques and practices for special education students.