Classroom Teacher

Classroom Teacher

Eckerd Connects Yanceyville, North Carolina, United States

Classroom Teacher

Do you have a passion for helping people, or you love to see youth and young adults work hard to reach their full potential? We have a position for you! Come work in a highly supportive family like rural setting and work with smaller student body sizes than traditional public schools as a Classroom Teacher for our Boys Residential Academy located in Yanceyville, NC.

Make more than a Living, Make a Difference

Our Benefits:

• Low-Cost Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 19 days of Paid Time Off the first year
• 11 paid holidays
• Retirement savings plan with employer match up to 5%
• Flexible spending accounts
• Paid short-term and voluntary long-term disability
• Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
• Voluntary term life insurance

Extra Benefits:

• Meals provided when on duty

Annual Salary Rate: $50,000

Must meet NC state teacher certification eligibility requirements.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide direct special education instruction to identified students.
• Plan, prepare, deliver, and/or direct instructional activities that actively engage students in meaningful and relevant learning experiences, including opportunities for them to explore application of higher-order thinking skills and to investigate new approaches to applying their learning.
• Design and use various instructional strategies, innovations, and activities that are research based, reflective of best practice, and compatible with the total program effort.
• Differentiate instruction and educational programs and/or projects to meet students' special interests, learning styles, and identified level of academic achievement, intellectual and physical ability, and social and emotional functioning.
• Maintain knowledge of and implement established curriculum based on clearly defined state standards.
• Integrate subject matter through effective thematic development.
• Provide vocational/career instruction, as required and a positive academic learning climate where students are encouraged to be productive learners and take pride in their work.
• Participate in development, implementation, and revision of personal education plans for all program students, to include IEPs, as required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
• Conduct standardized and diagnostic testing, as required;
  Monitor, document, and analyze student performance data, and use results to make decisions to improve outcomes.
• Provide input into ordering necessary instructional materials, supplies and equipment in sufficient numbers to support the educational program and implement its plans for improvement.
• Maintain secure, accurate and complete student record keeping system that monitors student progress, to include a current, up-to-date student work folder.
• Participate in a continuous program of professional development that supports achievement of the programs improvement goals. Complete all training, in-service and staff development requirements as set forth by Eckerd and its contracting, licensing, accrediting and state teacher certification agencies.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree, from an accredited College or University, required.
  Must meet NC state teacher certification eligibility requirements. Prefer state certification in all core subject areas taught.
  Prefer endorsement/certification in one or more of these areas:
  Reading, ESOL, and special education
  . Must maintain appropriate certification to meet Highly Qualified requirements for assigned classes. Must acquire certifications NLT 6 months after employment.
• 2+ years successful teaching experience preferred.
• Ability to restrain youth in accordance with approved techniques. Must be free of communicable diseases as defined by the…