Special Ed PK Teacher

Educate Kansas - Lyons, IL

Lyons, IL

About the position

The purpose of the preschool teacher is to facilitate the growth of children with development delays by establishing a learning environment that focuses on individual strengths and needs. The preschool teacher is responsible to the Building Principal and supervises paraeducators.

Responsibilities

• Participates as part of a team to assess learning strengths and weaknesses of referred children and make recommendations based on the assessment.
• Provide activities to enhance development in cognitive, problem solving, motor, language, affective, and socialization areas. Field trips and community resource people utilized as needed.
• Devise and implement lesson plans, and room schedule that may include large group, small group.
• Provide modeling and assistance for paraeducators and volunteers in order to obtain the maximum benefit from their efforts.
• Devise and implement procedures for filling out forms and reports, other documentations and schedules as needed.
• Provide supervision of student activities in all areas both inside and outside the classroom facility as needed, including snack, nap, toileting, and playground areas.
• Attend and/or arrange conferences and meetings to evaluate student growth and needs with parents and other professionals as needed.
• Maintain professional competence through district provided inservice, director indicated inservice, as well as through self-selected professional growth activities.
• Involve parents and extended families through conferences and classroom visitations.
• Prepares progress reports and year-end evaluations, administering pretests and post-tests as appropriate.
• Establishes and maintains standards of individual student behavior.
• Performs basic attendance accounting and similar record keeping functions.
• Creates an effective environment for learning through functional and attractive display, bulletin boards, and interest centers.
• Fulfills other assignments given by supervisors per negotiated agreement.

Requirements

• Early Childhood Certificate