Behavior Support Teacher

Lee County Schools•Salem, AL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Behavior Support Teacher will work with individual students and groups of students to help them meet behavior targets and maintain a positive and productive teaching and learning environment. This role involves planning and evaluating strategies for improving instruction, developing behavior change strategies, and maintaining frequent, meaningful parental communication to support academic achievement and pro-social behaviors. The teacher will also facilitate team meetings, work with teachers on intervention strategies, and provide professional development to support positive behavior support in classrooms.

Requirements

Must comply with all employment criteria legally established by the Lee County Board of Education.
Must hold an appropriate Alabama Professional Educator Certificate.
Minimum of five (5) years successful elementary classroom teaching experience in which the teaching of “at risk” and/or “behaviorally challenged” students is preferred.
Demonstrate ability to plan and evaluate strategies for improving instruction.
Knowledge of function-based intervention planning for developing behavior change strategies that focuses on reducing problem behavior and increasing more appropriate behavior.
Must be able to maintain frequent, meaningful parental communication and develop proactive partnerships between the student/parent and school district to support academic achievement and pro-social behaviors.
Must meet the suitability criteria for employment as required by the Alabama Child Protection Act of 1999 and Act No. 2002-457.
Background Check Required: (HB 402 ACT 99-361 Alabama Legislature) Upon offer of employment, employees will be required to submit legible fingerprints for a background review by the Alabama Bureau of Investigation and the federal Bureau of Investigation.
Attend on a regular and predictable basis.
Complete assigned tasks in a safe manner and in a constant state of alertness.
Uphold Board policies, including the anti-harassment program.
Work in a cooperative manner with students, teachers, staff, supervisors, and the public.
Work effectively and efficiently under time and productivity standards.
Communicate effectively in English, using proper grammar and vocabulary.
Stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and talk or hear.
The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

Nice To Haves

Teaching of “at risk” and/or “behaviorally challenged” students is preferred.

Responsibilities

Work with individual students and groups of students to help in meeting behavior targets and in maintaining a positive and productive teaching and learning environment.
Plan and evaluate strategies for improving instruction.
Develop behavior change strategies that focus on reducing problem behavior and increasing more appropriate behavior.
Maintain frequent, meaningful parental communication and develop proactive partnerships between the student/parent and school district to support academic achievement and pro-social behaviors.
Report for duty fifteen minutes before the opening of school and remain fifteen minutes after the close of school.
Meet and instruct assigned classes in the locations at the times designated.
Develop and maintain a classroom environment conducive to effective learning within the limits of the resources provided and appropriate to the interests and maturity of the students.
Establish and maintain appropriate discipline in the classroom and assist staff in establishment and maintenance of discipline in the school environment.
Prepare for classes assigned, and show written evidence of preparation upon request of the principal at the local school.
Facilitate team meetings that: design behavior interventions plans; address classroom organization, effective instruction, social skills instruction, and ethical issues; School-wide Positive Behavioral Support; and factors that affect effectiveness including social validity and treatment integrity.
Work with individual teachers, groups of teachers and/or the entire staff on issues such as: crisis intervention, learning and collaboration issues, and factors that can affect development and implementation of interventions.
Promote highly specialized positive behavior interventions in which “at risk” students thrive: behavior instruction that is explicit, intensive, accelerated and provides ample practice.
Provide recognition of a variety of student accomplishments and positive behaviors.
Work cooperatively with building administrators to promote positive student behavior by providing professional development that targets research, strategies and modeling of instructional practices to support teachers in their implementation of positive behavior support in their classrooms.
Continually supervise students to ensure a safe, non-threatening, nurturing environment where students can thrive.
Engage in on-going professional development to increase knowledge and skills of positive student behavior support for all students, targeted students and students who represent sub-group populations.
Engage parents in the “student behavior intervention plan” process and empower parents by providing them with skills and techniques to support the positive behavior development of their child.
Conduct conflict resolution and peer mediation sessions.
Maintain accurate, complete, and correct records as required by law, board policy, and administrative regulation.
Evaluate student progress on a regular basis and in accordance with the system's established procedures.
Seek assistance of specialists as needed and make referrals when appropriate.
Take all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students and to safeguard all equipment, materials, and facilities.
Make reasonable provision for being available to students and parents for education related purposes outside the instructional day.
Work with other staff members in planning school activities, instructional goals, objectives, and methods.
Assist in the selection of books, equipment, and other instructional materials.
Participate in extracurricular activities as mutually agreed upon by faculty and administration.
Attend and participate regularly in faculty meetings.
Maintain a professional, cooperative working relationship with parents and community.
Promote good public relations for school and school system with the general public.
Maintain and improve professional competence.
Perform other related duties during school necessary to the safe and effective operation of the school when requested by the principal.