Teacher: Life Enrichment Education Program

Clackamas Education Service District • Sandy, OR

17d • Onsite

About The Position

The Life Enrichment Education Program (LEEP) Teacher designs and instructs lessons following a CESD/LEEP approved teaching framework that provides students with complex disabilities the opportunity to engage in authentic structured activities that support the ability to access learning in the classroom, school building, and community. Lessons target the development of communication, behavior regulation, literacy, adaptive living and leisure skills. The activities are designed to teach students with significant communication, behavior, and motor challenges that severely impede their educational progress. The teacher collaborates with Administration in creating the content of the program's professional development. The teacher coaches the classroom educational assistants and behavior coaches in implementing the lesson plans that are modeled during instruction. The teacher facilitates the development of a highly integrated related service team who collaboratively builds a classroom plan of instruction.

Requirements

• Current Oregon teaching license with a special education endorsement and authorization or ability to obtain the license and/or endorsement within one calendar year after hire date
• Ability to acquire and maintain all safety certifications including crisis intervention and physical management certification approved by CESD
• Working knowledge of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the Oregon Department of Education Guidance for Special Education Services

Responsibilities

• Informs the further development of program needs in collaboration with other related service members to create a highly skilled and comprehensive integrated model of service
• Informs the development of a differentiated system of Professional Development (MTSS) to assist families and caregivers, educators, community and district partners, to meet the education and inclusion of students with complex disabilities
• Writes each student's rigorous individual education program (IEP) that includes important learning outcomes that are differentiated and aligned with the age/developmental/grade level curriculum
• Coordinates the knowledge of content, students, and resources to design a series of differentiated instructional strategies and learning activities that are aligned with educational outcomes
• Informs and facilitates the learning environment following the principals of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
• Develops a classroom environment that is safe and inviting characterized by high levels of student engagement and a culture in which everyone shares a belief in the importance of learning.
• Plans for the operation of classroom routines and procedures that include following a robust schedule for learning, transitions and handling of materials, holding each student to the highest level of supported independence.
• Models, coaches, and problem solves responding to classroom needs to ensure a robust educational model is implemented daily with the safety of staff, students, and building partners at the forefront
• Utilizes knowledge of content standards, effective teaching practices and professional teaching standards to write, model, and provide instructional coaching for lesson plans that guide large, small groups and individual specially designed instruction for students with complex disabilities
• Performs assessments to help determine strategy (diagnostic), inform and adjust the strategy (formative), determine the level of learning (interim), and review performance (summative)
• Informs and facilitates the implementation of student plans written by related service specialists that include communication, behavior, motor, sensory, feeding, medical, and plan for independence in all learning environments and with all providers.
• Develops and maintains a data system that informs the development of appropriate IEPs that include data, data driven decision making, measurable and achievable goals, and the implementation of those goals
• Represents the CESD LEEP program through modeling a collaborative culture and climate, works effectively in a team and presents excellent written and verbal communication skills with all stakeholders
• Shows professionalism by assuming a leadership role in ensuring that instructional practices and procedures are implemented with fidelity, displays the highest standards of ethical conduct, and takes a leadership role in seeing that colleagues comply with school, district, state, and federal regulations

Benefits

• Full medical, dental, and vision insurance with generous district-paid contribution
• Retirement through the Oregon Public Retirement System (PERS) includes pension and individual account program
• Paid time off, including paid holidays, sick leave, and other personal leave
• Opportunities to grow with us with generous professional development expense reimbursements
• Clackamas ESD covers the full cost of fingerprinting for new employees, saving you $82.50 - a benefit not offered by most other districts
• Retirement plan contributions: Clackamas ESD employees working 600 or more hours in a calendar year are eligible for the Oregon Public Employee Retirement, or PERS. There are two components to PERS, including the pension, which is primarily funded by CESD and The Individual Account Program, or IAP, which is funded by a six-percent deduction from your paycheck. If you are new to PERS, your PERS deduction will begin automatically after a six-month waiting period.

What This Job Offers

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