Teacher Resource

Vail Unified School District•Tucson, AZ

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Resource Teacher is responsible for developing the instructional program to meet the individual needs of students in Special Education within the school setting. This role involves serving as a case manager, coordinating IEPs, promoting Special Education common language, and providing instruction using effective accommodations. The teacher will collaborate with general education teachers to share strategies and communicate student progress, ensuring accommodations are implemented for all assessments. Additionally, the role includes facilitating the IEP process, creating data collection systems, writing progress notes, and establishing grading and scheduling processes that reflect student growth and proficiency.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university.
Valid Arizona Special Education special education teaching certificate
Valid Arizona IVP fingerprint clearance card
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents.
Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
Ability to write speeches and articles for publication that conform to prescribed style and format.
Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
Frequently required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
Must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Responsibilities

Serves as case manager responsible for coordinating the development, monitoring, and implementation of inclusion student's Individual Education Plan (IEP).
Promotes the Special Education Common Language and shared responsibility to “our students.”
Provides instruction on grade-level standards using effective accommodations.
Collaborates with the general education teacher to share accommodations and strategies, including Assistive Technology, so students can access the grade-level curriculum.
Communicates consistently with the general education teacher regarding the student’s progress, using data.
Work with the team to determine the level of frequency.
Communicates consistently with the general education teacher regarding the content to be taught.
Ensures that each student’s accommodations are written and communicated for formatives, benchmarks, and state testing.
Facilitates the IEP process, create data collection systems for the IEP goals, and write quarterly progress notes based on written data.
Establishes and provides targeted instruction to remediate areas of need created by the student’s disability.
Establishes and maintains a proactive, site-based, process to determine the schedule, instruction, and IEP and post-secondary goals for each student.
Establishes and maintains a proactive, site-based, process for grading that provides parents, teachers, and students with an accurate reflection of the student’s growth, effort, and proficiency related to grade-level standards.
Consults with the site’s Student Solutions Team team as needed.
Serves as a resource to colleagues by providing materials, remedial interventions, and strategies for student success.
May be assigned supervisory duties of paraprofessionals, as needed.