LBSTeacher; STARS Program

Position: LBS1 Teacher (STARS Program)
Position Type:
Student Support Services/LD/ED Teacher

Date Posted:
4/27/2026

Location:
Yorkville Grade School

Date Available:
08/10/2026

Closing Date:
05/29/2026

District:
Yorkville Community School District 115
Yorkville CUSD 115 has an opening for 1.0 FTE Special Education LBS1 teacher to provide support for Yorkville Grade School for the  school year. This position is for an LBS1 to support our STARS (Skills Training And Related Service) program for students in kindergarten and First grade. Previous experience with supporting students who have an autism diagnosis and use communication devices is preferred but not required.

The STARS teacher provides educational and related services within a school setting to students who could benefit from a highly structured, centered-based approach teaching social skills and emotional regulation, and providing for specific sensory needs.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION / POSITION SUMMARY:

• Develops short and long-range plans consistent with curriculum goals, learners' diversity, and learning theory
• Understands issues in definition and identification procedures for individuals with disabilities, including those individuals from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds
• Understands characteristics of individuals with disabilities across the age range, including levels of severity, multiple disabilities and their influence on development, behavior and learning; with knowledge about the impact of language disorders, processing deficits, intellectual abilities, behavioral/emotional/social disorders, and physical (including sensory) disabilities on learning and behavior
• Prepares effective instructional strategies and resources for teaching the scope and sequence in the academic, social, and vocational curricular domains in the general curriculum
• Plans effective instructional strategies for adapting or modifying general curriculum to meet the needs of individual students, and strategies to implement and prioritize longitudinal, outcome-based curriculum, including social, language, academic, vocational skills, and life skill domains (i.e. domestic, recreation/leisure, vocational, and community)
• Utilizes specialized materials, equipment, and assistive technology for individuals with disabilities and understands the use of adaptive equipment for students with disabilities to plan and prepare for the integration of assistive and instructional technology to meet a student's individual needs
• Prepares and utilizes assessment methodologies to adapt for individual students as appropriate, including physical adaptations to meet a student's individual needs
• Plans and prepares for IEP and parent meetings
• Understands basic classroom management theories and methods; with strategies for individual behavior management, crisis prevention, intervention, de-escalation techniques, and the balance between classroom management with academic teaching strategies
• Implements strategies for assessing learning environments and conducting functional behavioral assessments within the environment
• Understands the characteristics of environments, including materials, equipment, and spatial arrangements that facilitate development, learning and interaction among students
• Creates a classroom culture which is a cognitively busy place, characterized by a shared belief in the importance of learning; establishes high expectations and personal achievement
• Demonstrates ways in which technology can assist with creating and managing the learning environment, incorporating the verbal and visual redirection and classroom expectations
• Provides supervision of paraprofessional educators
• Consults with teachers and therapists to plan for student's needs and required adaptations, modifications, and use of assistive/adaptive technology
• Implements effective researched-supported instructional strategies for basic sequences of skills in the academic, social, and vocational curricular areas; including techniques for modifying instructional methods, curricular materials, and the environment to meet learners' needs that are appropriate to those learners' ages and skill levels
• Chooses and implements instructional techniques and strategies that promote successful transitions for individuals with disabilities
• Creates varied opportunities for all students to use effective written, verbal, nonverbal, and visual communication appropriate to each student

Regionally Competitive Salary
Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits

Regionally Competitive Salary
Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits package.

Please contact Melinda Hafenrichter with questions or interest at mhafenrichter

QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS:

Current Illinois Professional Educator License and LBSI teaching endorsement required.

Starting Salary $51,612 /BS+0, year 1

This position is part of the Yorkville CBA, linked below