Special Education Teacher

1. Assess within the students’ environment their specific functioning levels through observations, formal and/or informal testing, discussions with teacher assistants and other professional staff. 2. Train teacher assistants to perform all academic tasks and supervise their performance in the physical aspects of their jobs. 3. Develop appropriate educational goals and/or benchmarks for students based upon Common Core standards using portfolio, Unique learning system, observation, formal and informal testing, and discussion with colleagues necessary to complete the alternate assessment. 4. Develop and implement weekly individual lesson plans based upon IEP’s goals and objectives and submit on a weekly basis to the education coordinator. 5. Participate as a member of the IEP team for Annual Reviews, and six-month reviews meetings and other pertinent meetings involving their students. 6. Complete all the required paper work, i.e. IEP’s, quarterly progress reports, six-month reviews, three-year reevaluations and any other report requested for the benefit of the student. 7. Carry out and integrate recommended physical therapy, occupational therapy, nutrition, speech/language therapy, behavior plans, activities of daily living, feeding, etc. as needed to create a functional classroom setting and to meet individual benchmarks or goals. 8. Provide inclusive settings such as community based vocational programming and/or community activities for students in order to provide an opportunity to use skills learned in school over various settings while developing social skills. 9. Where the opportunity is provided, work in a collaborative and inclusive setting with children without disabilities, either on site or within the public schools or on a job site. 10. Provide information to parents about progress on IEP goals on a continual basis through daily communication, individual meetings, telephone conversations and brief reports as appropriate. 11. Provide access to a communication system for each child in the classroom at all times. Education:Must have a BS Degree Certification:Certified by Dept. of Ed. as Special Education Teacher Severe/Profound Experience:Minimum of two years as a teacher of students with severe disabilities