Special Education Teacher

Specialized Education Services • Naperville, IL

4h • Onsite

About The Position

The Special Education Teacher diagnoses and addresses students’ learning, social, and emotional skill gaps. The role collaborates with school teams and families to provide personalized guidance and deliver SESI’s evidence-based learning and instructional models, along with its positive behavioral interventions and support framework. SESI’s approach includes innovative learning methods, unique instructional environments, smaller class sizes, and student support services.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution of higher learning.
• Valid teaching credential appropriate to the role.
• Commitment to learning and implementing feedback.
• Adaptability and flexibility.
• Ability to run short distances and move quickly in response to student needs, including bending, kneeling, and crouching.
• Ability to lift and assist students with mobility challenges, often handling up to 50 pounds or more.
• Fine motor skills for helping students with writing, manipulating small objects, or using adaptive devices.
• Ability to operate a computer or tablet for up to 8 hours daily.
• Capacity to notice and respond to students’ non-verbal cues.
• Capacity to remain calm and composed in physically and emotionally demanding situations to ensure student safety and well-being.

Responsibilities

• Work with students from diverse developmental, cultural, ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Use SESI’s instructional models, strategies, and curricula to teach knowledge and skills, nurture confidence and character, and meet students’ needs.
• Develop and maintain individualized, skill-appropriate lesson plans.
• Implement behavior-management and intervention strategies, including de-escalation, crisis management, and physical restraint when necessary to maintain student and staff safety.
• Maintain student documentation, including IEPs, BIPs, incident reports, and high-risk evaluation forms.
• Drive, record, and track student progress toward academic, social, and emotional goals.
• Supervise and monitor students, including while moving to and from locations within the school.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level