Special Education Teacher - Elementary

Special Education Teacher

Full-time Position

Start Date:

August 2025

Principal & Director of Student Services

• Bachelor’s Degree, at minimum, with emphasis on the education of students with disabilities.
• Appropriate licensure as required by Illinois Law, with at least a full LBSI License.
• Belief in an integrated classroom system, and the ability to monitor progress of special education students in a general education environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of best practices in the instruction of students with disabilities, and interest or experience in a co‑teaching model.
• Experience with the IEP process and the assessment of students with disabilities.
• An interest and/or experience in the development of student-focused instructional environments.
• A strong commitment to professional excellence.
• The ability to work collaboratively with others to optimize student achievement.
• A willingness to participate in staff development opportunities.

• 1. Designs, supervises, implements, and manages Individual Education Plans (IEP).
• 2. Implements research based Best Practice methods to effectively teach students with disabilities.
• 3. Creates and coordinates student schedules with related services personnel and general education staff.
• 4. Effectively works with a large team of professionals.
• 5. Collects and analyzes student data and monitors student progress.
• 6. Serves as case manager for special education students.
• 7. Prepares assessment data, reports, and individual goals for students’ IEP and evaluation meetings.
• 8. Plans a program of study that meets the individual needs, interests and abilities of students and nurtures a feeling of self-respect and self-worth within each child.
• 9. Participates in case conferences concerning individual students, as requested.
• 10. Co‑teaches with the classroom teacher when a child is being educated in a general education class.
• 11. Consults and collaborates with classroom teachers and other staff members to implement instruction.
• 12. Maintains accurate records, as appropriate.

• 1. Understands the central concepts, methods of inquiry, and structures of disciplines and creates learning experiences that make the content meaningful to all students.
• 2. Evaluates teaching resources and curriculum materials for their comprehensiveness, accuracy, and usefulness for representing particular ideas and concepts.
• 3. Facilitates learning experiences that make connections to other content areas and to life and career experiences.
• 4. Analyzes individual and group performance in order to design instruction that meets learners’ current needs in the cognitive, social, emotional, ethical, and physical domains at the appropriate level of development.
• 5. Introduces concepts and principles at different levels of complexity so that they are meaningful to students at varying levels of development and to students with diverse learning needs.
• 6. Facilitates a learning community in which individual differences are respected.
• 7. Uses a wide range of instructional strategies and technologies to meet and enhance diverse student needs.
• 8. Understands the Common Core State Standards, curriculum development, content, learning theory, and student development and knows how to incorporate this knowledge in planning instruction.
• 9. Establishes expectations for students’ learning.
• 10. Understands principles of and strategies for effective classroom management.
• 12. Maximizes the amount of class time spent in learning by creating expectations and processes for communication and behavior along with a physical setting conducive to achieving classroom goals.
• 13. Uses strategies to create a smoothly functioning learning community in which students assume responsibility for themselves and one another, participate in decision‑making, work collaboratively and independently, use appropriate technology, and engage in purposeful learning activities.
• 14. Uses multiple teaching and learning strategies to engage students in active learning opportunities that promote the development of critical thinking, problem‑solving, and performance capabilities and that help students assume responsibility for…