Special Education Teacher Thrive

LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION • Palatine, IL

16h • Onsite

About The Position

Develop and Implement learning goals and objectives, in alignment with residential and day services treatment plans. Provide small group instruction to students diagnosed on the Autism spectrum and to ensure understanding and progress in the general curriculum. Little City is more than a place with a mission. It is a caring community filled with options, opportunities, hopes and dreams. We are looking for caring and compassionate individuals to join our team who want to make a difference each and every day. Bring your smiles and your heart to our children, adults, and seniors who are developmentally disabled. In return, yours will be filled with the joy that has enriched the lives of the individuals you are serving. If you are looking for a rewarding career, we offer a variety of programs to help individuals with disabilities so they can live, work and succeed within our communities. Here is your opportunity to use your natural leadership skills and help us increase our positive impact on the lives of many wonderful people.

Requirements

• A Bachelors degree in Exceptional/Special Education or a field meeting requirements for an individual to obtain a Professional Educator License with an LBS1 endorsement.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with students on Autism spectrum and/or Experience working in a Special Education Cooperative or Intensive District Special Education Program, preferred.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing the intensive intervention classrooms and will teach in one of the classrooms and help coordinate activities for other intensive intervention teachers.
• Developing intensive intervention activities in collaboration with lead teacher, school administration, and other members of residential and school teams.
• Maintaining a new classroom structure of high intensity teacher, lead para, BCBA, and therapies on daily basis.
• Creating and maintaining a high intensity classroom environment both high intensity physical environment and high intensity social/emotional environment.
• Developing a specialized high intensity curriculum based on evidence-based best practice.
• Creating individualized high intensity programs for each high intensity student.
• Ability to sustain high level of behavioral interventions in collaboration with BCBA team.
• Coordinating multi-environment learning between residential and school.
• Responsible as team member to hire and train para-educators.
• Daily progress monitoring between residential and school for each student.
• Regular participation in multi-disciplinary team meetings to include the BCBA, home manager and other related service personnel and school administration.
• Responsible for direct supervision and daily instruction of students with autism and other intellectual disabilities.
• Provide small group instruction to students diagnosed on the Autism spectrum and/or students with developmental disabilities to ensure understanding and progress in the general education curriculum.
• Develop weekly lesson plans and implement learning goals and objectives, in alignment with general education curriculum, Little City Center for Education Curriculum and student’s IEP.
• Develop re-evaluations triennially, IEPs annually, and monitor them quarterly.
• Monitor student behavior plans annually, IEP goals, and objectives, and other student goals as identified, or more frequently if needed.
• Prepare quarterly IEP progress reports and report cards.
• Plan, coordinate, and participate in weekly Community Based Instruction and Cooking Groups.
• Plan, coordinate, and participate in field trips.
• Supervision, monitoring, and training paraprofessionals in collaboration with the Little City Center for Education principal and/or designee.
• Participate in all IEP meetings, team meetings, staff meetings, committee meetings, and other meetings as determined by the Center for Education principal.
• Maintain weekly communication with student parents and residential case managers.
• Participate in ongoing professional development to ensure certification/licensure remains current.
• Develop, monitor, and revise classroom behavior management programs.
• Administration of formal, informal, benchmarking, classroom, and state assessments.
• Provide needed accommodations for student learning and testing when required.
• Build and maintain safe, fair, and respectful learning environments that celebrate the diversity of the student population.
• Work collaboratively within a team environment.
• Other Duties as assigned by the Center for Education Principal that would be expected or anticipated of a special education teacher.
• Maintains American Heart Association certification in First Aid and CPR.
• Successfully completes Little City required training, re-training, and any additional training as required by Little City policies and practices, or as assigned by his or her immediate supervisor.

Benefits

• Little City offers competitive salaries and benefits for eligible employees such as medical, dental, and vision insurance, short-term and long-term disability, 401(k) and Roth 401(k) retirement plans with employer match, Flexible Spending Accounts ( FSA), life insurance, critical illness, hospital indemnity, paid holidays, paid time off (vacation, personal, and sick time), and an employee assistance program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees