Elementary Special Education Teacher (Immediate Opening)

Job Goal

To provide each special education student with an instructional program that will enable the student to achieve his/her fullest potential.

Qualifications

• Mississippi Educator License
• Minimum of bachelor's degree
• Prior experience preferred
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable

Reports To

Building Principal and Director of Special Education

Performance Responsibilities

• Provides an appropriate program for special education students consistent with federal and state guidelines.
• Works cooperatively with regular classroom teachers, interpreting the abilities and disabilities of the special education students to the staff and assisting the special education student with regular class assignments.
• Confers regularly with parents and professional staff members regarding the educational, social, and personal problems of students.
• Assists other professional staff members in meeting the unique needs of each student.
• Assists in screening and evaluating students who are exhibiting learning problems.
• Assists students in making realistic assessment of their abilities and in establishing educational and occupational goals in keeping with these abilities.
• Provides motivation for learning.
• Maintains attendance records and any other data pertinent to the special education program.
• Takes responsibility for own professional growth and development; for keeping current with literature, new research findings, and improving techniques; and for attending appropriate professional meetings and conventions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to finger/handle/feel, and reach with hands and arms.
• Frequently required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and to talk and hear.
• Occasionally required to climb or balance.
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 40 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Terms of Employment

Ten month year. Salary to be established by the Board.

Evaluation

Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.