Special Education Teacher

Responsibilities

• Champion the Core Values
• Support and promote the vision, mission and core values of holistic growth, community belonging, curious minds, and academic excellences.
• Support and promote Westside Atlanta Charter School’s focus on literacy, project based learning, and social emotional learning.
• Embrace the school’s commitment to diversity and serve as an ambassador for families and the community, at large, that represent various ethnicities, races, income levels and backgrounds.
• Plan and prepare
• Demonstrate content knowledge and pedagogy including planning and developing student-centered instructional activities that result in authentic, real-world applications of knowledge.
• Demonstrate skill in planning differentiated learning activities based on the diverse instructional needs of students and the Georgia Performance Standards.
• Demonstrate skill in planning instructional units by using appropriate instructional resources including design thinking, textbooks, manipulative aids, models, instructional technology, online resources, and others.
• Demonstrate knowledge of how to structure content by planning activities that progress from simple to complex and are connected in vertical and horizontal alignment.
• Demonstrate knowledge of how to plan assessment activities before, during and after a lesson to determine whether students achieved the intended goals.
• Create and evaluate Individual Education Plans (IEP) for students.
• Observe and maintain accurate IEP and EIP student records.
• Update parents on the progress of their students and enlist parent support with behavior control and home activities designed to supplement classroom lessons.
• Collaborate with other classroom teachers, school psychologists, learning disabilities specialists, and speech/hearing specialists, to provide an integrated plan for developing the capacities of their students.
• Demonstrate exemplary oral and written communications.
• Form collegial relationships to plan and assess student-centered learning units and to assure vertical and cross-curricular alignment of instructional objectives.
• Actively participate in all professional development activities. Keep abreast of current research-based practices and use them to improve instructional effectiveness.

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