Special Education Teacher

Position Title:
Intensive Needs Teacher - Special Education

Reports to: Principal, Director of Special Education

FLSA: Exempt

To assist students (specifically those students with intensive needs) in overcoming their emotional problems or to learn appropriate coping techniques so they can function in an educational setting.

Appropriate certification as required by the Indiana Department of Education.
Ability to plan and organize.
Skills in human relations.
Ability to communicate effectively before groups of students and parents.
Other qualifications as deemed desirable by the School Board.

May assist in supervising instructional support personnel.

• Acts as a member of the multidisciplinary evaluation team and shares in making eligibility determinations.
• Develops appropriate Individualized Education Plans based on accurate and current present levels of academic and functional performance.
• Utilizes diagnostic, prescriptive, and precision teaching techniques to help students acquire and maintain grade-level achievement.
• Adapts the curriculum of the general education class to the needs of the student based on the needs identified in the Individual Education Plan.
• Involves parents and/or guardians in the student’s educational program.
• Supports students in general education where their present level of functioning appears to dictate potential success.
• Communicate with parents, administrators, and other personnel the needs of the students.
• Maintains student records and files as appropriate.
• Participate in available training designed to prevent and intervene during a crisis.
• Performs other reasonably related duties as may be assigned by the Director of Special Services or the building principal.
• Other duties as assigned.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions on the job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit and use their hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Responsibilities and tasks outlined in this document are not exhaustive and may change as determined by the needs of the district.

It is the policy of Madison Consolidated Schools not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or age, in its programs or employment policies as required by the Indiana Civil Rights Act (I.C. 1971, 22-9-1);
Public Law 218 (I.C. 1971, Title 20);
Titles VI and VII (Civil Rights Act 1964); the Equal Pay Act of 1973;
Title IX (1972 Education Amendments);
Public Law 94-142; and Public Law 93-112, Section 50.