Special Education Teacher - COMPASS Program

Wakefield Public Schools • Wakefield, MA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The COMPASS Program is seeking a Special Education Teacher to manage a caseload of students in grades 2-4. This role involves ensuring compliance with IEP mandates, providing small group instruction, and developing a therapeutic service delivery model to enhance students' social/emotional competencies. The teacher will also communicate with parents, manage paraprofessionals, collaborate with outside agencies, and support student transitions. This position is crucial for fostering self-sufficient and independent learners.

Requirements

• Moderate or Severe Special Needs Certification required
• Experience working with students with significant social/emotional impairments/disabilities.
• Experience/background knowledge of Social Emotional Learning Curriculum and implementation
• Experience creating and implementing programming that supports the needs of students in both inclusion and Special Education settings
• Experience collaborating with general education teachers to create plans that support academic, social, and emotional learning of students on caseload

Responsibilities

• Manage all aspects of special education caseload of students in grades 2-4, ensuring implementation of and compliance with all mandates related to IEP process.
• Provide, if necessary, small group instruction of grade level content.
• Develop therapeutic service delivery model in which all students improve social/emotional competencies to become self-sufficient and independent learners.
• Establish and maintain regular two-way communication with parents.
• Manage and direct paraprofessionals to support the needs of students.
• Collaborate with outside agencies to support social emotional team model, as appropriate.
• Support transitions for students from elementary therapeutic programming and into high school therapeutic programming.
• Perform all such duties as assigned by the Principal and Administration of Special Education.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed