Special Education, State Teacher I - Campus at Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center

About the role

This position is open only to current Colorado state residents. The Division of Youth Services (DYS) provides a continuum of residential and non-residential services that encompass juvenile detention, commitment, and parole. DYS is the agency statutorily mandated to provide for the care and supervision of youth committed by the District Court to the custody of the Colorado Department of Human Services.

Responsibilities

• Establishes and maintains an appropriate classroom setting through the use of effective classroom management skills and engagement strategies specific to student need to include progressive discipline, progressive skills, and interventions for behavior and academics.
• Affirms and collects multiple pieces of evidence of learning that include progress monitoring and standards based education with appropriate rigor and to reflect reading and writing tasks.
• Prepares daily and unit lesson plans that are aligned with state standards, DYS power standards, and the critical skills needed and/or the CCSS content standards.
• Implements a variety of research-based education strategies (including technology) to accommodate multi-age/multi-level students to include project based learning and skills orientated focus.
• Ensures that the DYS instructional framework is followed with daily learning objectives and relevant learning that is scaffolded to meet the needs of all youth.
• Takes responsibility for knowledge of current state standards in literacy, math, and comprehensive health, special education law, in the area of technology instruction, and related subjects including best practice and research in teaching and learning.
• Provides ongoing data and feedback to the Special Education Coordinator regarding students’ needs, information for appropriate goals and objectives as related to the IEP, and share Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) strategies in which to utilize to enhance instruction and opportunities for the success of students with an IEP.
• Determines the level of complexity and standards to use for the classroom instruction based on the needs of each student and highest priorities.
• Determines the information to communicate with necessary stakeholders within a limited time frame.
• Decides the themes and the topics used to engage youth.
• Determines how to integrate real-world career skills into all lessons.
• Affirms how to create and use rubrics for student work.

Requirements

This position is open only to current Colorado state residents. Experience must be described in detail on your application to receive credit. Do not use "see resume" or "see attached" statements on your application.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in a field of study related to the work assignment.
• Current, valid Professional Teacher license issued by the Colorado Department of Education with an endorsement in Special Education.

Skills

Knowledge of effective research-based instructional strategies.

Benefits

N/A

Pay

N/A

Schedule

M-F, typically 7am start. Work arrangements are subject to change at any time.