Special Education Teacher

Bristol Tennessee City Schools•Bristol, TN

15h•Onsite

About The Position

The Special Education Teacher will provide an appropriate learning environment for special services students. This role involves working directly with students with disabilities, providing individualized instruction, and collaborating with other school personnel to ensure students attain their full potential.

Requirements

Minimum bachelor's degree required.
Valid Tennessee teaching license.
Appropriate endorsements include 144, 460, and 461.
Valid Tennessee teaching certificate at appropriate grade level.
Ability to understand instructions and underlying principles.
Ability to reason and make judgments.
Ability to understand meanings of words and the ideas associated with them.
Ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately.
Ability to move the hands easily and manipulate small objects with the fingers.
Ability to make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures.
Ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color.

Nice To Haves

Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

Responsibilities

Works directly with students with disabilities.
Provides primary and/or supplementary individualized instruction in recommended academic areas.
Offers academics on a level commensurate with the ability of each student as prescribed by the multidisciplinary team of each student in his/her individualized educational program.
Provides remediation of, as well as compensation for, individual deficiencies as determined through individual evaluation.
Guides the special services student into classes and other activities in an effort to help him/her attain his/her full potential as a productive member of society.
Promotes the development of positive self-concept, self-discipline, and self-motivation.
Serves as a consultant to the classroom teacher in meeting the needs of special services students.
Serves as a diagnostician of learning problems of students at the local school level.
Coordinates multidisciplinary team meetings.
Cooperates with school and community personnel to provide an appropriate education for special services students.
Make home visits when the need arises as determined by the resource teacher and school principal.
Keeps the IEP of children receiving special education services accurate and up-to-date.
Performs such other duties as may reasonably be prescribed by the principal and/or student personnel supervisor.