Home-based Special Education Instructor Part-time​/Temporary - Student Services - Sc

Job Summary

Home-based Special Education Instructor – 8 hours/week, 2025-26 School Year Only, Part-time/Temporary. Pay rate: $30.00–$45.00/hour. Seeking a part-time instructor to work with a homebound middle school student.

The Homebased Special Education Teacher – Adapted Curriculum involves working with students with intellectual disabilities, physical disabilities, and various other educational disabilities. The assignment for this teacher will be to provide homebased instruction based on an adapted curriculum, in a mutually agreed upon location, on a part-time schedule.

• 4 hours/week & 1 hour/week planning:
  High school student with Multiple Disabilities – Targeting foundational communication, daily living, and engagement skills
• 6 hours/week & 2 hours/week planning:
  Elementary school student with Autism – Targeting foundational communication, play, engagement, and self-care skills

• Teach students content to meet the standards outlined in Virginia’s Essentialized Standards of Learning and the Virginia Standards of Learning using research-based curriculum, strategies & materials correlated with other approved learning activities and adjusted to suit each student’s needs;
• Assist children with multiple disabilities, specific learning disabilities, speech or language impairments, intellectual disabilities, emotional disabilities, multiple disabilities, hearing impairments, orthopedic impairments, visual impairments, autism, combined deafness and blindness, traumatic brain injury and other health impairments;
• Implement Individualized Education Plans, as written, for student with disabilities;
• Use various teaching methods to promote learning, including intensive individualized instruction and problem-solving assignments;
• Ensure appropriate accommodations are available in the learning environment and when a student needs to access the environment, curriculum and assessments;
• Develop lesson plans and instructional materials and provide individualized instruction based on the student’s IEP;
• Translate lesson plans into learning experiences to best utilize the available time for instruction;
• Provide culturally responsive instruction to students who are linguistically diverse;
• Establish a caring, loving, and warm yet structured atmosphere for our most complex and at-risk students;
• Modify regular and aligned education curriculum to meet the individual children’s needs;
• Provide and maintain a safe and supportive learning environment;
• Establish and maintain standards of pupil behavior needed to achieve a functional learning atmosphere and develop an individualized behavioral plan when needed;
• Provide an effective program of instruction;
• Model professional standards when dealing with students, parents, peers, and community;
• Utilize strong oral and written communication skills with students, parents, and staff;
• Utilize effective problem solving, organizational, multi-tasking, and time management skills;
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with pupils, parents, school staff
• Evaluate pupils’ academic and social growth, and prepare progress reports;
• Communicate with parents through conferences, telephone calls, e-mails, student planners, school web site, and other means, to discuss the pupils' progress;
• Maintain and uphold school and county policies and procedures;
• Establish / design, implement and monitor personalized goals for each child;
• Assure confidentiality of all students’ information;
• Understand and adhere to all laws, Special Education policies and procedures and District policies, and procedures;
• Maintain professional competence through staff development education activities provided by the school district and self-selected professional growth activities;
• Knowledge and use of materials and resources in accordance with the adopted curriculum and consistent with the physical limitations of the location provided;
• Assist in the selection of books, equipment, and other instructional materials;
• Establish and maintain cooperative professional relations with others;
• Perform related duties as assigned by the administration in accordance with the school/system policies…