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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Three years of professional, certified teaching experience.
• Colorado Department of Education (CDE) teaching license.
• Colorado Special Education Teacher endorsement applicable to the incumbent’s assigned program.
• Complete mandatory biennial Crisis Prevention Intervention training provided by the District.
• Intermediate communication, organization, and human relations skills.
• Ability to align curriculum and assessments with state content standards.
• Ability to support programs designed to increase student achievement.
• Ability to assume leadership in developing and communicating programs and curriculum.
• Ability and desire to work as a team member and actively participate in a Professional Learning Community.
• Ability to understand, appreciate, and make accommodations for student diversity.
• Ability to serve as a role model and as an innovative, creative learner who keeps current with instructional practice and pedagogy.
• Criminal background check and fingerprinting are required for hire.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree.
• Three years of special education teaching experience.
• Experience working in the public sector.
• Experience advising school clubs or co-curricular activities.
• Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Racially conscious and culturally competent, with the skill, will, capacity, and knowledge to commit to a culture of continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Instruct students in large, small, and one-on-one situations.
• Develop, plan, prepare, and implement course content, instructional formats and schedules, individualized programs, classroom materials and curriculum, lesson plans, and learning activities.
• Administer, edit, proofread, and grade student assignments and assessments.
• Design assessment tasks that allow students to demonstrate understanding in varied ways, use assessment data to provide meaningful feedback, and modify instruction.
• Create a classroom environment that maximizes instructional opportunities; supervise student behavior and well-being across educational settings; and administer discipline when appropriate.
• Monitor student growth and progress, adapt support as needed, and maintain documentation regarding students’ academic, social, and emotional progress and needs.
• Communicate students’ progress, needs, and eligibility to parents or guardians and other staff as needed.
• Collaborate with teachers, support personnel, administrators, and colleagues to enhance instruction and improve student outcomes.
• Participate in department, team, school, and District meetings; student and family conferences; social, cultural, interscholastic, and extracurricular activities; and professional growth opportunities.
• Perform other duties as assigned or requested.