Teacher, Special Education; Bethune Elementary; DCD-MM-License renewal

Position: Teacher, Special Education ) – Bethune Elementary

Requisition

Location:

Bethune Elementary )

FTE: 1.0 (42 weeks)

Union:
Teachers(04)

Salary Range: $55,796 to $116,593

Benefits:
Dental, Health, Vision, Paid Time Off, HSA & FSA, Retirement Plan

Provide quality instruction aligned to state and national standards. Use a variety of assessment strategies—diagnostic, formative, and summative—to inform instructional decisions and increase student self‑management of learning. Rigorous inquiry‑based learning tasks engage students in deep content of the discipline as well as the habits of scholarship. May be required to work as a member of the campus STEM team to ensure integrated instruction across disciplines.

• Have a working knowledge of the Minnesota State Standards and District Graduation Requirements; understand subject matter, classroom management, best practices, and students’ learning styles and needs, both academic and affective.
• Teach students the required curricula using strategies that foster thinking, reasoning, and problem‑solving.
• Collaborate with peers to develop, plan, and implement best practices based on students’ needs and abilities.
• Assess students’ developmental, cognitive, and social needs and provide developmentally appropriate instruction.
• Create safe, respectful, and engaging learning environments that are multicultural, gender-, and ability‑fair and developmentally appropriate.
• Collaborate and communicate regularly with families to make educational decisions and use family and community resources to support learning.
• Acquire knowledge of the Minneapolis Public School District Improvement Agenda and site/school goals; work to support and achieve those goals.
• Assess own instructional effectiveness through the Professional Development Process (PDP) and participate in ongoing staff, team, and individual professional development.

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university.
• Prior successful experience in student teaching or teaching in an urban, multicultural educational setting.
• Demonstrated continued professional development through coursework, research, peer collaboration, and/or job‑embedded staff development.
• Master’s or PhD preferred.

A valid Developmental Disabilities, Emotional Behavioral Disabilities, Mild to Moderate Mentally Handicapped, Mildly Handicapped, or Academic and Behavioral Strategist Minnesota teaching license; or proof of pending approved licensure.

Minneapolis Public Schools strongly encourages diverse candidates to apply. Diversity is one of the district’s core values and is essential to our mandate of putting children first and making them college‑ready. Mandates mandatory employment eligibility regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender or gender identity, marital status, public assistance status, disability, sexual orientation, age, family care leave status, or veteran status.