Skills Special Education Teacher

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The following professional vacancy is available for the 2025/2026 school year:

• Implements effective researched-supported instructional strategies for basic sequences of skills in the academic, social, and vocational curricular areas; including techniques for modifying instructional methods, curricular materials, and the environment to meet learners’ needs that are appropriate to those learners’ ages and skill levels.
• Uses instructional time effectively and efficiently; while facilitating the integration of related services into the instructional program.
• Chooses and implements instructional techniques and strategies that promote successful transitions for individuals with disabilities. Creates varied opportunities for all students to use effective written, verbal, nonverbal, and visual communication appropriate to each student.
• Understands assessment as an educational process including how to interpret information obtained from standardized and non standardized assessment, analyze and use to develop instruction and goals for individual students.
• Implements a variety of procedures for identifying student's learning characteristics and needs, monitoring student progress, and evaluating learning strategies and instructional approaches.
• Effectively utilizes the SRBI process utilizing appropriate progress monitoring tools to gauge individual student achievement; understanding these assessment procedures is an on-going process and efficient data collection and analysis will identify student needs.
• Implements accommodations and modification as identified for individual students on national, state, local and classroom assessments.
• Implements strategies for assessing students’ skills within curricular areas including academic, social and vocational.
• Implements classroom and individual behavioral management plans and actively participates in functional behavioral assessments and behavioral intervention plans for students.
• Understands and effectively utilizes computerized web-based systems for documentation procedures/communication, goal development and modification, progress monitoring, performance assessment, accommodations/modifications, program supports and overall IEP information.

Any other tasks as assigned by the Director of Special Services.

Applicants must possess all required certifications required by the Connecticut SDE for special education.

Financial compensation will be in accordance with the contract/agreement existing between the Ansonia Board of Education and the Ansonia Federation of Teachers.

Ansonia Public Schools has an opening for a Life-skills Special Education Teacher at Prendergast Elementary Schools.

Please See Attached Job Description.

Ansonia Public Schools is an EOE.