Elementary Special Education - Instructional Level Program Teacher

About the Role

Community Unit School District 200 is seeking an Elementary Special Education - Instructional Level Teacher to teach a full range of assignments to students who have one or more disabilities by selecting and using appropriate training/instructional material. Considerable judgment is needed to make decisions in carrying out these assignments.

Certification Requirement

• Current Illinois Professional Educator License (PEL) with LBS1 Endorsement

Qualifications and Skills

• Understanding of student's special needs and ability to work effectively
• Highly organized with effective interpersonal and communication skills
• Prepare meaningful lesson plans that provide students with a general education curriculum
• Good assessment skills. Ability to evaluate student's progress and provide remediation
• Strong behavior management and positive discipline skills
• Ability to function as a member of the educational team, collaborate with general educational staff, support personnel, community agencies and parents
• Working knowledge of classroom management techniques, procedures and appropriate conduct
• Knowledge of Syracuse curriculum and autism helpful
• Ability to be flexible and receptive to change

Responsibilities

• Prepare, adapt and deliver instructional material in accordance with the student's needs
• Teaches desirable habits by providing students with opportunities for which they are best suited
• Establish and enforce rules of behavior to maintain and manage order in the classroom and school building
• Participates with other professional staff in diagnosis of learning disorders, development of planned remediation and evaluation of student progress
• Monitors and maintains student records and progress for review and revisions of IEP
• Ability to effectively present and communicate student problems and progress and respond to questions from parents and staff
• Supervises students in groups and individually in classroom, school buildings and social-curricular activities

Physical Requirements

Employees in this position must have the ability to:

• Sit for extended periods of time
• Enter data into a computer, use standard office equipment and use telephone
• See and read a computer screen and printed material with or without visual aids
• Hear and understand speech at normal levels and on the telephone
• Stand, walk and bend over, reach overhead, grasp, push and pull, lift and/or carry up to 25 pounds waist height
• Occasional lifting or moving up to 100 lbs. may be required, such as lifting a child from the floor or moving children in wheelchairs

Work Environment

Hazards - Potential exposure to communicable disease and contact with blood and other body fluids; potential exposure to physical injury from aggressive behavior. The noise level is occasionally loud.