Special Education Teacher

Essential Functions

• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
• Consistently plan and deliver lessons that are aligned with the student's IEP goals AND are varied, interesting, engaging, and enjoyable for your students.
• Review incoming student IEP documentation.
• Write IEP goals and communicate necessary accommodations.
• Host and facilitate IEP, REED, MET, and MDR meetings for students on your caseload.
• Track student progress and update goal progress in EdPlan.
• Create lesson plans that are in harmony with students' learning styles.
• Provide Resource Room support, as well as self-contained classroom instruction if needed.
• Support students during weekly advisory sessions.
• Collaborate with general education teachers to ensure consistency of special education support.
• Ensure all IEP meetings and documentation are timely. Meet or exceed compliance timeline expectations.
• Consistently review and analyze student performance data to develop plans to meet the needs of all students.
• Maintain timely, complete, and accurate student records (i.e., Skyward and CAT).
• Affirmatively ensure that your classroom is conducive to learning – one that is safe and nurturing for all students. Provide consistency and balance for your students.
• Ensure that parents are frequently advised as to their child’s performance and progress.
• Communicated via all means available and necessary including phone, text, email, Skyward, face-to-face conferences, written correspondence, or other means.
• Frequent communication will assist parents in playing a key role in their child’s education. This will prevent surprises with progress reports and report card results.
• Provide parents with encouraging news as well as items of concern.
• Return parent e-mail and voice mail messages within 24 hours.
• Conduct research, attend conferences, and meetings, and pursue continuing education to ensure you are serving to model being a life-long learner and to ensure you are providing effective instruction. Keeping your teaching certification up to date is your professional responsibility.

Schedule

This role requires work between 8 am and 4 pm, Monday through Friday, and additional hours as needed. This is a full-time, salary position that requires 40 hours plus, if necessary to complete required tasks. This is a remote position, but the hours are not flexible.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required and Michigan Teaching Certification in the assigned area as well as pre-service experience, as required for certification.
• Dual certification is highly preferred (RX and MB or MA).

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.
• This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits available.
• Volunteer Life Insurance
• Short Term Disability
• 401K and Roth
• And more!