Teacher - Early Childhood Special Education - Bilingual (Child Find Evaluation Team)

Location: Thornton, CO

Standard hours per week: 40 | FTE: 1.0 | Months per year: 9

About the role

Adams 12 Five Star Schools is deeply committed to a community of excellence, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. We commit to eliminate the predictability of who is included in excellence and who is not. Adams 12 Five Star Schools puts students first and supports our district's mission to elevate student success for every student every day in every classroom.

Responsibilities

• Plan, prepare and deliver instructional activities.
• Create a positive educational climate for students to learn in.
• Meet course and school-wide student performance goals.
• Participate in ongoing training sessions.
• Create lesson plans and modify accordingly throughout the year.
• Grade papers and perform other administrative duties as needed.
• Read and stay abreast of current topics in education.
• Utilize various curriculum resources and technologies to enhance student learning.
• Integrate competencies, goals, and objectives into lesson plans.
• Utilize District curricula that reflect the diverse educational, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds of the students served.
• Establish and communicate clear objectives for all learning activities.
• Prepare and distribute parent communications.
• Observe and evaluate student's performance.
• Manage student behavior in the classroom creating appropriate behavior strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher.
• Must be a minimum of 18 years old.
• Criminal background check required for hire.
• Must possess the required license and endorsement for the position, or be able to obtain, or be in process with, the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) for a valid Colorado Educator License within 30 days of hire.
• Preference given to candidates with ELL Training and/or an ESL or (LDE) Linguistically Diverse Education Endorsement.

Benefits

Adams 12 Five Star Schools is committed to providing an environment that promotes a healthy employee population able to serve our students at the highest level. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• Employee assistance program.
• Voluntary life insurance through PERA.
• 401(k), 403(b), and 457(b) retirement plans available immediately upon hire.
• Paid time off.

Pay

Salary placement on the Certified Salary Schedule is dependent on the employee's education and/or work experience. Special programs teachers of students with significant support needs, structured learning services or affective needs, audiologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, school nurses, school psychologists, school social workers, and speech language pathologists shall receive experience credit for each full year of previous experience and are not limited to ten (10) years. Additionally, one step for each full year of service in the district as a contracted certified, classified, in-building substitute, and/or administrative employee for educators beginning a new certified contract or returning to a certified contract.