Cleveland High School Special Education Teacher
About The Position
The Special Education Teacher will provide academic and behavior intervention in specific skill deficit areas to students with disabilities (SWDs). This role involves maintaining special education paperwork, preparing progress reports, administering tests, and using EasyIEP for Individual Education Program (IAIEP) development and other reports. The teacher will attend and chair IAIEP and S-Team meetings, consult with parents and professionals, and work collaboratively with educational assistants, Behavior Interventionists, and other teachers. Responsibilities include implementing individualized academic and behavioral interventions, completing reevaluation reports, and planning curriculum and lessons tailored to students' individual needs. The teacher must also maintain classroom order, follow safety procedures, attend professional development, and represent the school positively.
Requirements
- Valid teacher’s license with appropriate endorsement
- Strong written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Meets health and physical qualifications
- Intelligence: The ability to understand instructions and underlying principles and ability to reason and make judgments
- Verbal: Ability to understand meanings of words and the ideas associated with them
- Numerical: Ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately
- Manual Dexterity: Ability to move hands easily and manipulate small objects with the fingers
- Color Discrimination: Ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color
Responsibilities
- Maintains all special education paperwork in a timely manner including Instructionally Appropriate Individual Education Program (IAIEP)
- Prepares progress reports for each grading period and sends report to parents
- Administers tests and monitors students’ progress on a regular basis
- Uses EasyIEP for the development of IAIEPs and other reports
- Attends and chair IAIEP and S-Team meetings as well as consults with parents, administrators, school psychologists, and other professionals
- Works with assigned educational assistants in classroom and provides direction/support/guidance
- Implements individualized academic intervention in skill deficit areas, adaptive skills, communication, social skills, behavior intervention and pre-vocational skills
- Completes Reevaluation Summary Report, observations of students, and other forms for school psychologists to review
- Works collaboratively with Behavior Interventionists and teachers and follows recommendations in the Behavior Intervention Plan for SWDs’ behavior
- Assumes responsibility for the day-to-day operation of the classroom
- Plans curriculum and prepares lessons and other materials, considering factors such as individual needs, abilities, learning levels, and physical limitations of the students
- Attends required Professional Development trainings
- Establishes student behavior and expects students to maintain standards of classroom behavior
- Keeps classroom work environment organized and order/manage materials and supplies
- Knows and follows all safety rules and procedures
- Prepares for assigned classes and shows evidence of preparation upon request of immediate supervisor
- Maintains order in classroom and schoolyard
- Reports to the principal when one knows or reasonably suspects that a student’s health or welfare has been or appears to have been harmed as a result of abuse or neglect
- Represents the schools and the community in a positive manner
- Performs other work-related duties as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
