Special Education Teacher

Grade Level: 9-12

Teaching Certificate Required Exceptional Needs:
Mild Interventions

Previous Teaching Experience

Required:

Experience with multiple disabilities preferred, but not required.

General Description of Position Duties:
Will work with students with specific learning disabilities, mild/moderate/severe cognitive disabilities, autism, and other health impairments while serving as their Teacher of Record (TOR). Will work with students in a life-skills classroom. May also teach self- contained special needs (certificate track) class(es) and/or Inclusion class(es).

Special Skills, Training or Aptitudes Required or Desire:
Ability to work with high school students and parents, to work with a department and team, organized and skilled at writing IEP's. Must possess strong interpersonal skills.

Physical and Mental Efforts:

* This position requires a high level of physical and mental endurance.

* Sitting in an office/classroom environment, performing tasks on a computer or other technical devices.

* Frequent standing, particularly for sustained periods of time.

* Frequent walking, moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one part of the building to another.

* Constantly talking, expressing, or exchanging ideas to colleagues and/or students accurately, loudly, or quickly.

* Ability to hear and listen to detailed information through oral communication.

* Occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

* Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision and distance vision.

* Ability to handle and balance multiple demands at the same time.

* The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

* Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Employee Benefits