Special Education Teacher | Transition Plus

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This position provides specially designed instruction, case management, and transition services across two related programs. In the Transition Plus program, the teacher serves young adults with disabilities, generally ages 18 through 21, who continue to require special education services after their senior year. In the secondary autism program, the teacher serves autistic students in grades 9 through 12.

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Develop, implement, monitor, and revise legally compliant IEPs, including present levels, measurable postsecondary goals, annual goals, transition services, and accommodations grounded in age-appropriate transition assessment data.
• Provide specially designed instruction in the classroom, community, workplace, and postsecondary settings, teaching employment readiness, independent living, community participation, self-determination, financial literacy, safety, and transportation skills.
• Provide specially designed instruction and case management for autistic students in grades 9 through 12, including structured teaching, communication and social skill instruction, sensory supports, executive functioning supports, and coordination with general education staff to support access to grade-level curriculum, graduation requirements, and the least restrictive environment.
• Plan and facilitate community-based instruction, career exploration, internships, work-based learning, competitive integrated employment experiences, and functional vocational assessment, coordinating with work coordinators, job coaches, and employers.
• Partner with Vocational Rehabilitation Services, Hennepin County Human Services, postsecondary disability service offices, and adult service providers to support transition to adult life.
• Conduct or contribute to evaluations, reevaluations, transition and functional assessments, exit planning, and the Summary of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance.
• Collect and analyze student performance data, report progress toward IEP goals, and adjust instruction and supports accordingly.
• Promote student voice and family partnership through person-centered planning, student-led IEPs, supported decision-making, and instruction related to transfer of rights at the age of majority, honoring adult student rights, confidentiality, home languages, and cultural backgrounds.
• Supervise, train, schedule, and direct paraprofessionals and job coaches regarding student plans, instructional strategies, data collection, confidentiality, and safety.
• Maintain accurate, timely, and confidential due process records and ensure compliance with IDEA, Minnesota special education law and rule, Section 504, the Americans with Disabilities Act, FERPA, district procedures, and workplace safety requirements.
• Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities include:

• Transition law and IEP development:
  Working knowledge of IDEA transition requirements, Minnesota special education statute and rule, age-of-majority requirements, and due process, with the ability to translate transition assessment data into measurable postsecondary goals and coordinated services.
• Transition-focused and community-based instruction:
  Knowledge of evidence-based methods for teaching employment, functional academics, independent living, and postsecondary readiness, and the ability to deliver and supervise instruction in businesses, colleges, public transit systems, and community agencies.
• Employment and adult-service systems:
  Understanding of competitive integrated employment, job development, Vocational Rehabilitation Services, county services, and postsecondary disability supports.
• Autism-specific practice:
  Knowledge of evidence-based practices for autistic students, including structured teaching, visual supports, communication and social skill instruction, sensory regulation, executive functioning supports, and neurodiversity-affirming approaches in secondary settings.
• Instruction, accessibility, and behavior support:
  Skill in Universal Design for Learning, task analysis, systematic instruction, assistive technology, AAC, positive behavior supports, Functional Behavior…