KEYS Academy Special Education Teacher

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The KEYS Academy Teacher demonstrates an understanding of curriculum, subject content, and the developmental needs of students by providing relevant learning experiences and effectively engaging students in learning using a variety of instructional strategies. The KEYS Academy Teacher plans using the Virginia Standards of Learning, the school’s curriculum, effective strategies, resources, and data to meet the needs of all students and systematically gathers, analyzes, and uses relevant data to plan instruction, measure student academic progress, and provide feedback to students and parents.

The KEYS Academy Teacher uses resources, routines, and procedures to provide a respectful, positive, safe, student- centered environment that is conducive to learning and demonstrates knowledge and integration of the KEYS Curriculum and the Social Thinking Program into their classroom daily. The KEYS Academy Teacher maintains a commitment to professional ethics, and effective communication and takes responsibility for and participates in professional growth that results in enhanced student learning and acceptable, measurable, and appropriate student academic progress.

The KEYS Academy Teacher performs all duties in a manner that supports a sense of well-being, availability for learning and safety, dignity and opportunity for all.

• Prepares classroom for class activities
• Clearly defines classroom environment to allow students to understand boundaries
• Develops a classroom management plan and individual behavior plans as needed
• Develops lesson plans
• Uses student learning data to guide planning
• Identifies and selects instructional resources and methods that support and expand the on-line curriculum and support the Virginia SOLs
• Plans instruction by embedding communication and social skill development
• Aligns IEP goals to instructional plans
• Aligns instructional plans to the SOLs and school curriculum
• Develops plans based on evidence-based practices
• Plans for student transition while encouraging self-determination
• Creates and ensures use of master schedule by all staff in the classroom
• Clearly communicates staff roles and responsibilities with all team members (including paraprofessionals)
• Organizes instructional materials and ensures accessibility of materials to staff prior to instructional delivery
• Keeps up to date with developments in on-line learning program, teaching resources, and methods and makes relevant changes to instructional plans and activities
• Plans, prepares and delivers daily group instruction utilizing Social Thinking and KEYS philosophies and curriculum

• Holds a valid teaching license from an accredited College or University, licensed in Special Education with endorsements in Special Education with endorsements in Emotional Disabilities (ED), Special Education General…