Long-Term Substitute Special Education Teacher/Resource Room
West Fargo Public Schools · West Fargo, ND · 1 mo ago
Full-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings where content exists. Use
for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. We need to include only sections with real specific content. Let's parse the job description. Key info: - Position Title: Long-term Substitute – Special Education Teacher/Resource Room - Location: Freedom Elementary School - Department: Curriculum & Instruction - Reports To: Building Principal - Term: Approx. September 15th, 2026 – December 2026 - Schedule: M-F Full-time following the academic hours of operation. - Salary: Full daily rate equates to $228.99. Will receive a $130 bonus after completing 10 full-time substitute days in the district – Does not need to be consecutive days. Bonus payment will follow the next payday after the 10th full-time day has been paid. - Date of last review: September 2026 (metadata, can be minor) - SUMMARY: description. - QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: includes essential duties and responsibilities (list of categories: Collaboration, Communication, Compassion, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Reflection, Resilience, Responsibility). Also includes Physical Demands and Work Environment, Education And/or Experience, Language Skills, Other Skills And Abilities, Supervisory Responsibilities None. - To Apply: instructions (to be removed). - Also EEO etc (remove). We need to produce sections: About the role (summary), Responsibilities (essential duties), Requirements (maybe qualifications?), Qualifications (education/experience), Skills (language skills, other skills), Benefits (maybe bonus?), Pay (salary), Schedule (M-F full-time). Also maybe Term? Not a heading; could be included in About the role paragraph. We must not create sections with filler like "not specified". So we include only those with real content. Let's extract content: About the role: The SUMMARY paragraph: "The Long-term Substitute covers the absence of the classroom educator while providing instruction and assistance to learners and managing classroom activities and behaviors. The classroom educator creates an engaging, nurturing, and safe learning environment that allows learners to develop their physical, social, and emotional wellbeing, providing instruction in academics, choice ready skills, knowledge, and dispositions to be compassionate, lifelong-learners, and contributing citizens in a rapidly changing world. This position is a long-term substitute position for learners with learners with intellectual disabilities. This position includes providing instruction, assisting special education teachers and staff, collecting behavior data, updating teachers on progress towards goals, and the flexibility to assist with other tasks as needed." We can keep that as prose in
. Responsibilities: The ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES list includes categories with bullet-like sentences. We need to output
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can list each duty as
- . The categories are headings within the text (Collaboration, Communication, etc.) but we can treat each sentence as a duty. Better to extract each bullet point.
Let's list them:
Collaboration:
- Develops positive, effective working relationships with learners and staff.
- Engages with other district staff in the professional learning community process.
Communication:
- Connects and shares ideas through appropriate/applicable formats to express thoughts and ideas with integrity.
- Utilizes effective communication skills to facilitate connection and sharing of thoughts and ideas in multiple formats with diverse audiences.
- Establishes and clearly articulates procedures and routines that promote efficiency and appropriate use of time.
- Clearly communicates the instructional purpose of each lesson and makes connections to prior learning.
- Engages learners in meaningful direct instruction, guided practice, and independent practice.
- Utilizes questions, discussions, and dialogue that promote critical thinking about diverse perspectives, viewpoints, and experiences.
Compassion:
- Empowers learners to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic learners, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information.
- Understands the complexities of cultural and global issues and how they relate to employee and learners' experiences.
- Partners with others to resolve potential controversy and conflict through respectful discussion.
- Proactively seeks to understand the ideas, opinions, and skills of others.
Creativity:
- Connects with team members and shares ideas in an effort to improve the overall learner and employee experience.
- Utilizes creative, critical thinking skills when faced with challenges.
- Design assessments that are aligned to the standards and learning targets and provide frequent opportunities for authentic and meaningful assessments.
- Establishes a classroom culture that values high expectations, work ethic, and a growth mindset.
Critical Thinking:
- Reasons, interprets, and analyzes information to generate new knowledge and understanding.
- Demonstrates knowledge of content and pedagogy; explicitly connecting key concepts to develop learner skills.
Reflection:
- Demonstrates understanding of the diverse social, emotional and developmental learning needs of elementary school learners.
- Maintains communication with supervisor and director regarding general feedback, career advancement opportunities, and areas of growth opportunities.
Resilience:
- Maintains composure while dealing with stressful situations.
- Proactively seeks out resolutions and takes initiative to resolve knowledge gaps.
Responsibility:
- Manages planning, instruction, and grading of elementary school content
- Utilizes district guaranteed and viable curriculum including the scope & sequence of academic and social emotional learning targets along with the defined proficiency scales.
- Plans a program of study that meets the individual needs, interests, and abilities of the learners.
- Utilizes district behavioral plans as a backbone to promote positive learner behavior.
- Fosters a safe and equitable classroom environment.
- Utilizes the district protocol for maintaining information on learner progress.
- Utilizes knowledge of applicable federal and state laws regarding education and learners.
- Creates a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of the learners.
- Guides the learning process toward the achievement of curriculum goals and in harmony with the goals, establishes clear objectives for all lessons, units, projects and the like to communicate these objectives to learners.
Also Physical Demands and Work Environment could be part of Responsibilities or maybe a separate section? Not in headings list. Could be included under Responsibilities as additional duties.
Education And/or Experience: qualifications.
Language Skills: skills.
Other Skills And Abilities: skills.
Supervisory Responsibilities None: maybe not needed.
Benefits: The bonus $130 after 10 days could be considered a benefit. Also maybe not other benefits. We'll create Benefits section with that bullet.
Pay: Salary $228.99 daily rate.
Schedule: M-F Full-time following the academic hours of operation.
Term: Could be included in About the role or maybe as a separate paragraph but not a heading.
We must not include headings with filler. So we will produce sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements? Actually we have Qualifications (education/experience) and Skills (language, other). The instructions list possible headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which to use.
We have content for About the role (summary). Responsibilities (essential duties). Qualifications (education/experience). Skills (language skills, other skills). Benefits (bonus). Pay (salary). Schedule (M-F full-time). Requirements maybe not needed if we have Qualifications and Skills; but we could combine Requirements as a section that includes both qualifications and skills? The instruction says use those headings for section headings. It doesn't forbid using both Qualifications and Skills. We'll include both.
We must not repeat job title as heading. Good.
We must not include Job ID/requisition numbers.
We must remove boilerplate: To Apply, EEO, etc.
We must preserve all substantive information.
Now produce HTML fragment:
About the role
... summary ...
Responsibilities
- ... each duty ... ...
Qualifications
North Dakota Substitute Teaching License is required. North Dakota Teaching License is preferred. Prior teaching experience is preferred. Prior experience working in an elementary school setting preferred.
Skills
- Ability to read, write, and comprehend simple instructions and short correspondences in the English language.
- Ability to communicate effectively verbally, expressively, and reactively.
- Exercise confidentiality, discretion, and good judgement.
- Adhere to the assigned work schedule by maintaining regular and punctual attendance.
Benefits
- Receive a $130 bonus after completing 10 full-time substitute days in the district (non‑consecutive days counted); bonus paid on the next payday after the 10th day is paid.
Pay
Full daily rate equates to $228.99.
Schedule
Monday‑Friday, full‑time following the academic hours of operation.
We might also include Term info in About the role paragraph: "Term: Approx. September 15th, 2026 – December 2026". Could add to About the role. Let's incorporate that. Now ensure we didn't miss any substantive info: Location, Department, Reports To maybe could be included in About the role as well. Could add location etc. The instruction says preserve ALL substantive information. So we should include location, department, reports to, term. We can add them in About the role paragraph or as a separate short paragraph. Since we don't have a heading for metadata, we can fold into About the role. Thus About the role paragraph will include: Position Title? Not to repeat job title as heading but we can mention it in paragraph? The instruction says do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it). It doesn't forbid mentioning it in paragraph. But to be safe, we can include location, department, reports to, term. Let's craft About the role paragraph: "The Long-term Substitute – Special Education Teacher/Resource Room at Freedom Elementary School (Curriculum & Instruction department) reports to the Building Principal for the term approximately September 15th, 2026 through December 2026. The role covers the absence of the classroom educator while providing instruction and assistance to learners, managing classroom activities and behaviors. The classroom educator creates an engaging, nurturing, and safe learning environment that allows learners to develop their physical, social, and emotional wellbeing, providing instruction in academics, choice ready skills, knowledge, and dispositions to be compassionate, lifelong‑learners, and contributing citizens in a rapidly changing world. This position is a long‑term substitute for learners with intellectual disabilities, including providing instruction, assisting special education teachers and staff, collecting behavior data, updating teachers on progress toward goals, and flexibly assisting with other tasks as needed." That covers location, department, reports to, term. Now Responsibilities: we need to include all duties from the list, plus maybe Physical Demands and Work Environment. Could add as additional li items. Physical Demands and Work Environment bullet points: - While performing the essential duties and responsibilities of this role, the employee is regularly required to reach with hands and arms. - While performing the essential duties and responsibilities of this role, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, bend, talk, and hear. - The specific vision abilities required for this role include close and peripheral vision. - The employee may be required to lift up to ~30 pounds. - The employee must work with the public and various WFPS staff while simultaneously managing several competing demands. - The employee may come in contact with bloodborne pathogens or other bodily fluids on rare occasions. - The employee will work in an environment that has a quiet to loud noise level. We'll include those as li under Responsibilities. Now Qualifications: we have Education And/or Experience. Also maybe "Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions." That's a generic statement; could be included but it's boilerplate? It's