CLIMB Program Special Education Teacher - McMahon Elementary School

About the role

Join an innovative team of educators supporting students with special needs in a unique and specialized setting attached to a community school. To meet the needs of students with complex learning and developmental needs, Lewiston Schools has established a multidisciplinary intensive education program designed to support students with individualized programming while encouraging them to benefit from their peers and offer access to naturalistic teaching settings.

Responsibilities

• Assesses and evaluates the accomplishments of students’ academic and social growth using standardized and curriculum-based measures, paired with on-going data collection and analysis.
• Develops lesson plans and instructional material, providing individualized and small group instruction to adapt the curriculum to the needs of each student.
• Communicates regularly with parents in monthly student meetings as well as newsletters, notes, phone calls, etc.
• Creates a learning environment that encourages student independence using evidenced based practice and data-based decision making.
• Leads a team of Ed. Techs/BHPs: Providing coaching and modeling around classroom and individualized programming, Coordinating schedules within and across days.
• Works with a multidisciplinary team to collaboratively design individualized supports.
• Maintains compliance with all assessment, progress monitoring and IEP reporting standards.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Bachelor's degree.
• Valid Teaching Certificate.

Skills and Abilities

See program specific handbook for additional information on skills and abilities required for this role.

Pay

Salary Range: Starting at $56,000.00

Schedule

This is a full time role working a program-specific calendar aligned to Lewiston Public School’s academic year with 6 weeks of full time summer services as well as additional summer professional learning days.