K-8 SPED Teacher

Position Responsibilities:

* Designs lessons that lead to standards mastery and are aligned to grade level expectations/learning connectors for students with disabilities and end-of-year assessments

* Provides feedback to scholars by asking pertinent, scaffolded follow-up questions that affirm correctly understood content, clarify misunderstood content or extend scholars' thinking

* Establishes effective classroom routines and manages students effectively without disruptions (redirects inappropriate behavior)

* Inspires and invests students in achieving their goals and in believing that goals are achieved through effort and not innate abilities

* Prepares scholars to solve complex problems with no obvious answer

* Seeks out and constructively responds to feedback from and engages in problem-solving with others

* Provides IEP minutes

* Ensures compliant IEP documentation for all students on caseload by facilitating IEP development, FBA/BIPs development and implementation, transition planning, and maintaining other supporting documentation related to service delivery (logs, progress reports, Extended School Year, etc)

Requirements

Education & Experience:

* 2 or more years of lead teaching (as the teacher of record)

* Demonstrated success working with students in an urban, open admissions school

* A BA or BS

* A strong background in and command of content area

* Louisiana Teacher Certification (SPED) Completed or in progress (or be eligible to hold for our out-of-state applicants) in the specific disability/grade levels served - First Line will cover certification costs if you are not already certified

Desired Qualities & Characteristics:

* Believe in every student's ability to achieve in a rigorous college or career prep curriculum

* Achieve results based on agreed-upon expectations

* Take personal responsibility

* Highly detail-oriented

* Collaborate effectively with a range of stakeholders

* Share a commitment to creating great schools in New Orleans

* Strong written and verbal communication skills

* Model the First Line values of Service, Learning, Collaboration and Results

Physical Requirements:

Must be able to perform all required job functions with reasonable accommodations, if necessary.

SPED TEACHER reports to: SPED Coordinator