Teacher - Up Successfully; GUS - Kindergarten​/1st Grade - Robson Elementary School

Position: Teacher - Growing Up Successfully (GUS) - Kindergarten/1st Grade - Robson Elementary School
* Forbes names Mesa Public Schools in their list of Best Employers in Arizona for multiple years.

* East Valley Tribune names Mesa Public Schools as Best Place to Work in East Valley for multiple years.

Employment Type:

Full-time

Base Salary:

$55,386.00

Calandar:

Certified Exempt, 187 workdays

Benefits:

Sick leave, holidays, matched retirement through the Arizona State Retirement System, health, and life insurance

Performance Pay:

Available annually

Annual Stipend:

$3150 Other certified Special Education positions

$7875 Autism, Emotional Disability, SHARP or MCS locations

New Hire

Experience:

$500 for each full-time year of certified teaching or verified like experience

New Hire

Education:

$65/hour of graduate level credits: BA +45 hours max, MA +60 hours max $1000 for advanced degrees

Certification:

Alternate teaching certification pathways available with a bachelor's degree

Job Summary:

The GUS teacher works directly and aggressively with identified students to acquire behaviors that substantially increase their social, behavioral and academic performance. These students have been identified by Behavior Services and referred and approved to attend the Tier 3 intervention of the GUS program for intensive behavior intervention and support. Under the supervision of the building principal and Director of Student Support Systems, the GUS teacher will provide diversified strategies and activities specifically designed for targeted students.

The GUS teacher may also provide indirect support and direction at the school level, working to design, implement, coordinate and evaluate a comprehensive behavior support program.

Candidates must complete an on-line application which requires appropriate Arizona certification, valid IVP Arizona fingerprint clearance card, evidence of highly qualified status, three letters of recommendation, and transcript of credits.

Key Responsibilities:

* Effectively support student acquisition of core curriculum and content standards identified by the State of Arizona and Mesa Public Schools

* Responsibilities will include defining and measuring behavior, understanding principles of reinforcement, teaching new behavior, implementing strategies for weakening behavior, and identifying antecedents

* Facilitate team meetings with the identified student's teachers and parents for the purpose of completing a Functional Behavioral Assessment as needed

* Facilitate team meetings that: design behavior interventions plans; address classroom organization, effective instruction, social skills instruction, and ethical issues;
School-wide Positive Behavioral Support; and factors that affect effectiveness including social validity and treatment integrity

* Work with individual teachers, groups of teachers and/or the entire staff on issues such as: crisis intervention and factors that can affect development and implementation of interventions

* Promote highly specialized positive behavior interventions in which "at risk" students thrive: behavior instruction that is explicit, intensive, accelerated and provides ample practice

* Use ongoing assessments to maintain a record of student progress

* Develop a repertoire of assessment strategies consistent with instructional goals, teaching methods, and individual student needs to more accurately assess student behavior skills and understandings

* Regard assessment as a joint venture through which both student and teacher understanding is enhanced

* Create fair and equitable assessments to assess higher-order thinking and problem solving as well as individual skills, knowledge, and understanding

* Model good assessment processes that assist students in assessing their own work and behavior

* Provide recognition of a variety of student accomplishments and positive behaviors

* Work cooperatively with building administrators to promote positive student behavior by providing professional development that targets research, strategies and modeling of instructional practices to support teachers in their implementation of positive behavior support in their classrooms

* Continually supervise students to ensure a safe, non-threatening, nurturing environment where students can thrive

* Engage in on-going professional development to increase knowledge and skills of positive student behavior support for all students, targeted students and students who represent sub-group populations

* Engage parents in the "student behavior intervention plan" process and empower parents by providing them with skills and techniques to support the positive behavior development of their child

* Participate in building level PLC teams and/or grade level meetings, as appropriate

* Consult with school social worker, counselor, and teachers

* Attend professional development opportunities to maintain high level of skill and knowledge of current research and practices

* Comply with all safety policies, practices and procedures; ASPEN Certification

* Provide leadership to others through example and sharing of knowledge/skill

* Participate in…