Temporary Certified Teacher

About the role

The COVE School, located in Plymouth MA, is seeking a temporary Art and History Teacher for grades 5-12.

Responsibilities

• Develops lesson plans, activities, and assessments that promote active learning and differentiates lessons to a variety of learning styles and modalities.
• Provides a variety of learning materials and resources for use in educational activities and prepares reports on student progress and development.
• Provides individualized academic instruction in a core subject to students of wide-ranging academic skill levels.
• Affords assistance to the Lead Special Education Teacher in planning and implementing individualized educational programs for assigned students.
• Establishes and communicates clear objectives for all learning activities in collaboration with an interdisciplinary teaching team.
• Researches and collects educational resource materials.
• Encourages and monitors the progress and development of individual students and uses information to adjust teaching strategies.
• Maintains current knowledge of the facility/agency’s behavior management principles, system, and procedures, including Therapeutic Crisis Intervention training.
• Participates in application of TCI in the classroom including crisis intervention, use of restraints when required, processing with children during incidents, and teaching and modeling of social and emotional skills and growth.
• Participates as a member of student/client multi-disciplinary teams, provides information regarding the child’s progress in an educational setting and receives multi-disciplinary advice and guidance to facilitate achievement of treatment, behavioral, and educational goals.
• Maintains liaison with collaterals as required and serves as student advocate.
• Performs monitoring and coverage as needed in the program, which may include monitoring of lunch, recess, halls, and/or chaperoning on field trips, etc.
• May be required to carry a mobile device.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Massachusetts Educator Licensure required.
• SPED certification preferred.
• Bachelor's degree and knowledge in field of designated assignment or subject (Art and History) required.
• Previous classroom experience required and experience with program specific population of children is highly desired.
• Computer literate including Microsoft Office and with the ability to learn new software applications.