Special Education Teacher​/MAPS

Position Details

• Position Type:
  Special Education/ Special Education Teacher/MAPS
• Date Posted: 5/29/2026
• Date Available:
  
  08/31/2026

School District #6 is located in the famous Rogue River Valley of Southern Oregon, nestled between the Cascade and Siskiyou Mountain ranges. The area abounds with opportunities – natural, theatrical, musical, educational and athletic. The entire school district is being restructured with an eye toward further improving our already excellent program. Our goal is to add innovative and energetic teachers who are committed equally to kids and to educational improvement and who want to be part of creative decision making.

Special Education Teacher – MAPS

Grade Level: K‑5

Building:
Sams Valley Elementary

Position

Start Date:

August 31, 2026

• $47,810.90 – $90,243.76, depending upon approved experience. Salary listed is 2025‑2026 pay rate. 2026‑2027 salary is TBD.
• MA stipend added to annual salary
• Service Premium pay after completion of 10 years of employment
• Annual COLA pay increase (as negotiated with Oregon Education Association)
• Annual step pay increase awarded to eligible employees
• 6 paid holidays annually
• 10 paid sick leave days per year
• 2 paid personal leave days per year
• 3 paid personal leave deduct sub pay per year
• 5 paid bereavement leave days per year
• Up to $1,900 per month district‑paid contribution toward full-family medical, dental, and vision insurance
• $600 per month opt‑out stipend for employees who demonstrate other health insurance coverage under a qualifying employer‑sponsored group medical plan (for full‑time employees)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 6% district‑paid contribution toward Oregon Public Employees Retirement System
• $50 per month employer match into a tax‑sheltered annuity when employee contributes $50 per month (after employee completes three years with the district)

• Will possess Oregon Teaching License with a special education endorsement.
• A willingness to be actively involved in teaming, curriculum integration, and shared decision making.

The Special Education Teacher plans and implements an instructional program that fosters learning and growth for students with special needs and guides them toward reaching their academic, social, intellectual and physical potential.

Principal or Assistant Principal

The Special Education Teacher works under general supervision. The nature of the work requires strict adherence to policies, procedures, regulations, and laws. The incumbent interfaces daily with students, parents, school administrative staff, and school employees. Because this job involves frequent interaction with students, the position requires a high level of professional decorum, excellent judgment, a calm and appropriate demeanor, and the capacity to serve as a role model to young people.

No direct supervision exercised over district employees. May provide dotted‑line supervision of classified staff. May supervise student teachers and volunteers.

Primarily interfaces with students, other teachers, school administrators, school staff, and parents.

• Demonstrates knowledge of content and pedagogy, identifying important concepts and their relationships to one another, providing clear explanations, answering questions accurately, providing effective feedback, and developing suitable instructional strategies.
• Demonstrates knowledge of students by being aware of students’ varying levels of cognitive development, by becoming informed about different cultural groups and incorporating that knowledge in lesson planning, and by remaining cognizant of the special needs of any student.
• Sets instructional outcomes by setting high and rigorous expectations related to central concepts of the discipline; by pursuing outcomes grounded in expectations of what students will learn (rather than do); by ensuring outcomes represent various types of knowledge, including factual knowledge, conceptual understanding, reasoning and social interaction; and by ensuring that outcomes are suitable to various groups of students in a given classroom.
• Demonstrates knowledge…