Life Skills Teacher Cy-Fair Campus

Position: [2025-2026] Life Skills Teacher Cy-Fair Campus
OPENS: 03/27/2025

CLOSES:
Until Filled

JOB TITLE:

Life Skills Teacher

REPORTS TO:

Campus Director

DEPT. / SCHOOL:
Academic / Bob Hope School / Cy-Fair Campus

WAGE / HOUR STATUS:
Exempt/Full Time

PAY GRADE:  Teacher Salary Schedule (prorated for number of days employed)

PRIMARY

PURPOSE:

To provide educational services to students with disabilities, responsible for planning, developing, delivering, and evaluating appropriate individualized educational services, learning programs and instruction in both self-contained and integrated settings in consultation with other school personnel.?

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

* Bachelor's degree from accredited university

* Valid Texas teaching certificate with required endorsements for subject and level assigned

* Demonstrate competency in the core academic subject area assigned

* Valid Texas Special Education certification

Special Knowledge/

Skills:

* Knowledge of core academics subjects assigned

* General knowledge of curriculum and instruction

* Ability to instruct students and manage their behavior

* Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills

* Knowledge of local, state, and federal regulations and policies affecting special education

* Knowledge of current special education practices and methodologies

* Knowledge of educational technology applications

* Ability to remain flexible and adapt to changing demands

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

Planning and Preparation

The life skills teacher understands the philosophical, historical, and legal foundations of special education. Additionally, teacher understands how students differ in their approaches to learning; creates instructional opportunities that are adapted to diverse learners; understands instructional planning; and designs instruction based on knowledge of the discipline, student, community, and curriculum goals; of all students ages three through twenty-one. In planning and preparation, the teacher demonstrates knowledge of content, students, instructional outcomes, resources, instructional practice, and designing assessments.

* Develops short and long-range plans consistent with curriculum goals, learners' diversity, and learning theory.

* Demonstrates working knowledge of current legislation, regulations, policies, and ethical issues related to the provision of educational services, including least restrictive environment, due process, assessment, discipline, transition, supplemental services and supports, specialized health care and assistive technology, to individuals with all types of disabilities across the age range.

* 3. Understands issues in definition and identification procedures for individuals with disabilities, including those individuals from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds.

* 4. Understands characteristics of individuals with disabilities across the age range, including levels of severity, multiple disabilities and their influence on development, behavior, and learning; with knowledge about the impact of language disorders, processing deficits, intellectual abilities, behavioral/emotional/social disorders, and physical (including sensory) disabilities on learning and behavior.

* 5. Plans effective instructional strategies for adapting or modifying general curriculum to meet the needs of individual students, and strategies to implement and prioritize longitudinal, outcome-based curriculum, including social, language, academic, vocational skills, and life skill domains (e., domestic, recreation/leisure, vocational, and community).

* 6. Utilizes specialized materials, equipment, and assistive technology for individuals with disabilities and understands the use of adaptive equipment for students with disabilities to plan and prepare for the integration of assistive and instructional technology to meet a student's individual needs.

* 7. Prepares and utilizes assessment methodologies to adapt for individual students as appropriate, including physical adaptations to meet a student's individual needs.

* 8. Maintains and inventories curriculum and assistive/adaptive technology.

* Prepares all required paperwork for students Admission, Review and Dismissal (ARD) meeting within timelines.

* Attends and participates in ARD meetings on a regular basis.

Instructional Strategies

The life skills teacher understands the central concepts and methods of inquiry; uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage students' development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills; and creates learning experiences that make content meaningful to all students. Additionally, teacher understands the educational assessment process and uses various assessment strategies to support the continuous development of all students.

* Develop and implement lesson plans that fulfill the requirements of district's curriculum program and show written evidence of preparation as required. Prepare lessons that reflect accommodations/modifications for differences in individual student differences.

* Plan and use…