26-27 Middle School SPED Teacher - All Subjects

The Quad Preparatory School•New York, NY

68d•$60,000 - $96,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Quad Preparatory School is seeking a Middle School Special Education Teacher for the 2025-2026 school year. This role involves providing academic instruction and social-emotional support to middle school students in collaboration with clinicians. The teacher will conduct one-to-one instructional sessions and support students by pushing into other classrooms. The position offers mentorship, coaching, and support from clinicians and academic administrators, with a significant benefit being professional development in working with twice-exceptional youth and mentorship from experienced special education teachers, academic administrators, and clinicians.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in mathematics education, elementary education, special education, or a related field.
Experience working with upper elementary or middle school students.

Nice To Haves

Experience as a middle school math or special education teacher.
Master’s degree in special education, elementary education, mathematics or a related field.
Special education training, including training in the areas of gifted education and twice-exceptional youth.
Secondary Mathematics (grades 7-12), Elementary Education, and/or Special Education teaching credential.
Experience teaching twice-exceptional youth.

Responsibilities

Plan and implement high-quality, engaging lessons that are differentiated to meet the learning needs of the students.
Regularly assess the students and the curriculum, adapting content and instruction as appropriate; communicating assessment results to parents.
Subscribe to and implement the school’s philosophy of progressive and personalized education for twice-exceptional children.
Collaborate with K-12 mathematics teachers to ensure a vertically aligned mathematics program.
Support students during co-curricular programming that occurs during the school day.
Create and maintain an orderly and aesthetic learning environment that accounts for students’ social, emotional, and executive functioning needs.
Maintain accurate records using both our school’s learning management system as well as carefully managed portfolios of student work to illustrate and record progress and achievement.
Empower students to take charge of their learning by providing all necessary scaffolding, modeling, materials, and resources, and consistently maintaining a high level of expectation for student success.
Collaborate with other academic staff and psychosocial staff members to plan, integrate, and facilitate cross-curricular, inquiry-based projects.
Communicate with parents and guardians to provide feedback on pupils’ academic and social-emotional progress through parent-teacher conferences, written reports, phone calls, and emails.
Follow the professional code and policies of the school and conduct oneself in a way that promotes the mission of the school.
Utilize Google Suite, in particular Google Drive, Docs, and Sheets.
Attend all faculty and staff meetings, professional development sessions, and required special events (e.g., open houses, parent-teacher conferences).
Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, Vision
Student Loan repayment
Retirement Plan contribution
Group Life Plan
Disability Insurance
Generous Parental Leave
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Pre-tax transit
Dependent care (DC FSA) accounts
401K match
Student loan repayment contributions (after one year of employment)
Professional development opportunities
First Year Support Program for all new facility and staff
Leadership Development Institute for those wishing to gain supervisory experience
Full tuition waiver for candidates wishing to participate in our annual Certificate Program in Meeting the Needs of Twice-Exceptional Students.
Ongoing staff wellness groups
Social events