Early Childhood Special Education Teacher - Red Hawk Ridge Elementary School

Early Childhood Special Education Teacher - Red Hawk Ridge Elementary School

Our employee benefits package includes medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, long term disability, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance. Visit our website for full details.

• Ability to assess and provide intervention services to students (2 to 5 years of age) who exhibit special needs, and monitor progress toward Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals.
• Ability to assess and provide intervention to English language learners and students who are on a Response to Intervention (RTI) plan.
• Familiarity with diagnostic assessments for Early Childhood Special Education.
• Strong knowledge of content area, teaching methods, learning styles and educational research related to special education students of all levels and abilities.
• Strong classroom management, communication, organization and planning skills.
• Positively impact achievement and differentiate instruction based on the needs of the students by supporting programs designed to increase student achievement.
• Demonstrate problem‑solving skills through collaborative work with students, teachers, staff, parents and administrators.
• Willing to support and actively participate in a professional learning community.
• Demonstrate an ability to provide small group and individual services to all levels of student ability (service cognitive delay, autism, learning disabled, emotional disabled, and speech/language eligible students).
• Ability to work cooperatively with the ECE team (classroom teachers, teaching assistants and other special education staff) to provide intervention and consultation regarding the needs of students.

• Hold a valid Colorado Early Childhood Special Education License.
• Proficiency in using technology.

• Experience in pediatrics or early childhood preferred.

• Moderate physical effort (lifting up to 25 pounds).
• Prolonged standing and walking.
• Squatting.
• Frequent bending, reaching, and climbing.
• Occasional lifting, pulling, and pushing.
• Speaking and hearing.
• Visual concentration.
• Eye/hand coordination.
  
  Manual dexterity to operate a computer keyboard.
• Concentrated reading/writing/mathematics.
• Varying levels of noise.
• Mild/Moderate classroom environment.
• Normal school district environment.
• May work outdoors when monitoring student activities.
• May be required to perform physical restraint.