High School ELA Special Education Teacher

BelovED Community & Empowerment Academy Charter Schools•Jersey City, NJ

8h•Onsite

About The Position

BelovED Community Charter School is seeking a skilled and dedicated Special Education ELA teacher to join their team. The ideal candidate will help build academic communities in classrooms characterized by a willingness to take intellectual risks and engage in exploration. The Special Education department fosters a teaching team defined by collaboration, trust, transparency, mutual respect, and a joint commitment to academic excellence and student well-being. The school provides extensive coaching and support to its teachers. This is an opportunity to work in a highly successful charter school that supports its teachers, serving a student body that is among the most diverse in America, while enjoying the cultural vibrancy of Jersey City, Hoboken, and New York City.

Requirements

Hold a New Jersey Department of Education CE, Limited CE, CEAS or Standard Certificate in Special Education (TOH or TOSD).

Nice To Haves

Dual-Certification in content area is preferred and may be required.

Responsibilities

Commit themselves to the School’s values and mission.
Hold high expectations for each student and commit themselves to helping every student achieve their full potential.
Accept ultimate responsibility for his or her students achieving learning progress that meets or exceeds the School's high standards.
Actively develop solutions to problems, reaching out for peer and leader support, and taking advantage of other school resources, as necessary.
Plan and deliver vibrant and engaging lessons – each with a measurable goal – within the framework of the School’s carefully sequenced, standards-aligned education program.
Communicate, and also model for their students, behaviors which befit the high expectations culture and the caring school climate to which we are committed.
Apply School and classroom rules consistently and effectively.
Make use of preventive discipline.
Effectively supervise students both in their classroom and elsewhere on School grounds.
See themselves as members of a team and commit themselves to their own and to their peers’ on-going professional development.
Attend professional development sessions.
Participate actively in planning meetings.
Become part of a professional learning community where they can lend assistance to, and gain assistance from, their grade-level peers.
Work collaboratively with the school’s special education and ELL staff to implement the school’s special education and ELL programs and to comply with all state and federal regulations.