Special Education Teacher - Preschool

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Description

Description

Summary: Teaches early childhood, elementary school, middle school or high school subjects to students with physical or intellectual disabilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Plans curriculum and prepares lessons and other instructional materials to meet individual needs of students, considering state and school requirements, and physical, emotional, and educational levels of development.
• Instructs students, using special education strategies and techniques, to improve sensory-motor and perceptual-motor development, perception, memory, language, cognition, and social and emotional development.
• Uses lessons that incorporate best practices, accommodations, and equipment that best meet individual needs of students, including the use of age-appropriate and functional curriculums as needed.
• Creates learning materials and bulletin boards that foster motivation and learning.
• Works with students to increase motivation, provide consistent reinforcement to learning, continuous assessment of level of functioning, and continuous feedback to students for all learning activities.
• Confers with parents, administrators, testing specialists, therapists, social worker, and others to develop individual educational program for each student.
• Incorporates and carries out student's behavior programs.
• Directs and maintains well-organized classroom routines and schedules.
• Completes required paperwork including evaluations, weekly/monthly data sheets (per program requirements), reports, quarterly evaluations, attendance, lesson plans, classroom schedules.
• Administers and scores standardized testing to evaluate and/or assess assigned students’ needs.
• Develops appropriate education objectives and goals for individualized program, treatment, or education plans (IPP, ITP or IEP) depending on age of individual served and specific program requirements.
• Plans and directs classroom duties of teaching assistants (TAs)/paraprofessionals. Holds TAs/paraprofessionals accountable for job performance. Communicates ongoing problems with program director or designee. Provides feedback for annual evaluation of TAs/ paraprofessionals.
• Coordinates, plans, and completes required paperwork for field trips where allowed, including reserving and driving vans.
• Coordinates and plans special activities such as classroom celebrations, guest speakers, and special events.
• Assists with planning for and carrying out summer programming.
• Assists with feeding and changing of students and other personal care needs.
• Keeps monthly progress data to show student's progress towards goals and objectives. Turns in data on a regular basis as defined by program director.
• Communicates with guardians and other staff about student's progress through quarterly reports.
• Attends team meetings and other meetings held to discuss student needs.
• Conducts monthly observations for public school children where applicable.
• Arrives before students and is prepared for the instructional day.
• Maintains good attendance. If unable to report to work due to illness or emergency, notifies the supervisor or designee as soon as possible.
• Dresses appropriately and professionally for the responsibilities of a teacher/leader.
• Completes annual training hours as required by Easterseals Arkansas as well as all regulatory or licensing agencies including, but not limited to Arkansas Department of Education (ADE) Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) Division of Disability Services (DDS), Child Care Licensing, Office of Long Term Care (OLTC), and Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).