Early Childhood Special Educator

“This institution is an equal opportunity provider”

Special Education Teacher JOB DESCRIPTION Starting Pay With Qualifying BA: $39.27/hour

Job Summary:

To serve as a member of the Multidisciplinary Team. To screen, assess, monitor, case manage, and provide individual specialized instruction to children ages birth through five years. To develop Individual Family Service Plans (IFSP’s) and Individual Education Programs (IEP’s) in coordination with parents and other team members. Travel will be required as needed to support your assigned caseload. While the current caseload includes Converse and Platte counties, it may extend to any of the four counties in our service area:
Goshen, Platte, Niobrara, and Converse. A company vehicle will be provided for work-related travel.

Duties/Responsibilities:

All duties will comply with all rules, regulations, and practices of the agency and its regulating authorities. WCFD standards, DFS licensing, NAEYC guidelines, Wyoming Division of Disabilities regulations, and WCFD policies. All employees will adhere to the mission, vision, values, policies, and procedures of WCFD.

• Coordinate referral/assessment process.
• Ensure that procedural safeguards are met and that advocacy information is provided to any family whose child will be screened, evaluated or provided services.
• Serve as a member of a multidisciplinary team as appropriate.
• Provides direct group and individual specialized instruction in a variety of settings and weather conditions to children including the classroom, private child cares and preschools and family homes.
• Implement an IFSP/IEP that promotes and supports a family’s capacities and competencies to identify, obtain, coordinate, monitor and evaluate resources and services to meet its needs.
• Support families through the early years after learning that their child has developmental delays or disabilities.
• Assist families in navigating complex service systems to find necessary resources on behalf of their child.
• Build the capacity of families and empower them to access services upon leaving WCFD birth to 6.
• Provide direct and indirect instructional support to children in a positive environment.
• Employ special educational strategies and a variety of techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory‑and perceptual‑motor skills, language, cognition and memory.
• Teach socially acceptable behavior, as determined by the children’s’ individualized family service plans (IFSPs) and individualized education programs (IEPs), by employing techniques in an overall positive behavioral support system.
• Modify the general education curriculum for children with disabilities based upon a variety of instructional techniques and technologies.
• Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration and work time that provides children with opportunities to observe, question and investigate.
• Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining an environment conducive to learning for all children.
• Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers and other professionals to develop individualized family service plans (IFSP) individualized education programs (IEP) designed to promote children’s educational, physical and social/emotional development.
• Maintain accurate and complete student records and prepare reports on children and
• activities, as required by laws, district policies and administrative regulations.
• Assist in collection of data for providing appropriate classroom interventions.
• Assist in preparation of data for local, state, and federal reports.
• Participate in meetings with the program staff for the purpose of feedback, evaluation, modification and progress of the enrolled children of the…