Special Education Teacher

Job Description Our Ideal Candidate Will:

• Provide instruction to students with special needs and identified learning disabilities in a Special Education program.
• Tutor individual and small groups of students, reinforcing language and reading concepts.
• Administer and score individual and group tests.
• Schedule IEP meetings, coordinating schedules with parents, general education teacher(s), administrator, and all appropriate special education staff.
• Conduct IEP meetings.
• Communicate and coordinate special needs evaluation and testing with speech teachers, psychologists, and other service providers.
• Communicate with parents regarding individual student progress and conduct.
• Maintain progress records and record progress toward IEP goals.
• Record progress within the independent study program.
• Perform other duties in support of the Special Education program.
• Support other academic programs offered within the independent study program.

• Ability to teach students of grades 6-12.
• Ability to understand, adopt, and support the independent study program, concepts and their philosophies.
• Ability to organize and present ideas effectively in oral and written form.
• Ability to make skillful decisions.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Ability to operate a PC computer, word processor, copier, FAX, and other office machines.

• Minimum BA degree or equivalent required.
• IL PEL - Learning Behavior Specialist I (LBSI) required.

• We offer a comprehensive benefits package to full-time staff that includes paid time off, holiday and sick time, medical, vision and dental coverage, incentives and an employer-matched 401k plan.
• PIE provides our staff opportunities to chaperone students on experiential learning trips to amazing places like Italy, Cuba and China as well as U.S. based trips to DC, a ranch in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and a farm in Northern California.
• We regularly hold social functions to foster a genuine camaraderie that enhances teamwork.
• At our company-wide award functions, we take time to recognize the talent and dedication of the people who make PIE and our students successful.

Salary Range: $76,000 - $92,000 Depending on Experience

To learn more about our schools, visit us .pathways in education.org.

Pathways In Education embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

PIE is a non-profit organization that partners with public schools to provide dropout recovery and prevention programs, including: schools (located in LA, TN, IL, AZ and ); college tours; and experiential programs that help students learn teamwork, resiliency, leadership, self-confidence, and communication.

Pathways’ schools utilize a blended learning model, combining independent study and small group instruction, focusing on academic recovery, experiential learning, and life and job skills development.

With a focus on one‑one mentorship, PIE teachers and advisors are able to show struggling students the potential that they have not been able to see in themselves.

PIE’s experiential programs promote not only social and personal growth, but community involvement, environmentalism, and STEAM learning, and are proven to increase high school graduation rates among attendees.

Blackbird Farm and Rocky Mountain Pathways Ranch both fall under the PIE umbrella.

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