Special Education Resource Teacher; KIS​/LPMS

Position

Special Education Resource Classroom position for the  School year at Kesling Intermediate/La Porte Middle School

Teaches elementary and secondary school subjects to special needs children, adapting teaching techniques and methods of instruction to meet individual needs of students by performing the following duties.

• Develop, write, review, and update Individual Education Programs (IEP) in accordance with Article 7.
• Monitor the implementation of the student’s IEP.
• Provide technical assistance and consultation to the student’s general education teachers, related services providers, paraprofessionals, and other school personnel interacting with the student based on the student’s IEP.
• Determine appropriate accommodations or modifications for students with disabilities.
• Collaborate with general education teachers to appropriately collect data and develop functional behavior assessments and behavior intervention plans.
• Provide special education services outlined in the IEP in the least restrictive environment to students with disabilities.
• Instruct students at their instructional/grade level.
• Demonstrate organizational skills in scheduling and writing IEPs, scheduling conferences, planning lessons, and providing instruction in a timely fashion as outlined in state regulations and local procedures.
• Responsible for all other activities identified in Article 7, 511 IAC 7-17-72.
• Supervise and evaluate the instructional assistants in the provision of instruction, personal/private care and hygiene needs when necessary and specified in the IEP.
• Physically be able to write and/or type for development and maintenance of student records, to prepare and to deliver lessons, as well as providing feedback on student work.
• Maintain student confidentiality by complying with all the rights to student’s confidentiality (FERPA), both in and out of the school environment.
• Ability to effectively communicate with students, parents, and staff.
• Provide visual, auditory and demonstrations to students for the purposes of instruction.
• Ability to work with mathematical concepts appropriate to the students’ grade level. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions finished in written, oral diagram, or schedule form.

Indiana Teaching License

-Mild or Intense Intervention with a K-12 setting

Bachelor’s degree is a minimum requirement. Individual must be eligible for appropriate licensing in their assigned program and level:
Mild Interventions, Severe Interventions, Communication Disorders, Hearing Impaired, Visually Impaired, etc. or be able to obtain an emergency permit.

Ability to read and interpret documents such as textbooks and/or teacher’s guides, student IEPs, Behavioral Plans, procedure manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions. Ability to write routine reports, student IEPs, behavior plans, and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of children, parents, or employees of the school corporation.

Ability to work with mathematical concepts appropriate to the students’ grade/ability level. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Must regularly talk or hear, stand, walk, sit in a chair and on the floor; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; taste or smell. May need to physically restrain a student, lift or move up to 10 pounds, lift or move up to 50 pounds, and complete a one or two person transfer for positioning or bath rooming a student.

Requires close, distance, color, peripheral vision, and depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

185 day year. Salary and work schedule to be determined by current salary schedule and position-appropriate work calendar.