Special Education Teacher - Behavioral Health Hospital

Special Education Teacher - Behavioral Health Hospital

• Position Type:
  Special Education Services
• Date Posted:
  5/11/2026
• Location:
  
  OU Health

Create and implement a flexible, individualized special education program within a behavioral health hospital classroom setting. The teacher establishes a safe, supportive, trauma-informed learning environment that is favorable to academic progress, social-emotional growth, and transition planning while ensuring services are delivered in compliance with each student's Individualized Education Program (IEP), Oklahoma State Department of Education requirements, Oklahoma City Public Schools policies and procedures, and applicable federal and state special education requirements.

This position serves students receiving care in a behavioral health hospital setting. Hospital behavioral health technicians and/or designated hospital staff will be present in the classroom at all times and will respond to behaviors, safety issues, or clinical needs that rise above normal classroom management situations. The OKCPS teacher remains responsible for specially designed instruction, IEP implementation, educational documentation, case management, collaboration, and appropriate classroom management aligned with district and hospital procedures.

Focus:
Instruction, curriculum, assessment, coaching, and student learning outcomes.

• Provide specially designed instruction and educational supports consistent with each student's IEP, including goals, accommodations, modifications, service minutes, supplementary aids and services, behavior supports, and progress monitoring requirements.
• Develop lesson plans, instructional materials, specially designed instruction, and individualized or small-group learning experiences that adapt curriculum to each student's needs and identified IEP objectives.
• Teach applicable academic content, functional skills, transition skills, and other instructional areas using the course of study adopted by the Oklahoma State Department of Education and Oklahoma City's Board of Education.
• Evaluate students' academic, social, behavioral, functional, and IEP goal progress; maintain appropriate records; prepare progress reports; and communicate educational progress to parents/guardians and appropriate team members.
• Identify student needs and cooperate with other professional staff members in assessing and helping students address learning, behavioral, health-related, attitude, and transition concerns within the teacher's educational role.
• Support positive classroom behavior through proactive, instructional, and relationship-based classroom management while relying on hospital staff to address behaviors or clinical needs that rise above normal classroom management situations.

Focus:
Professional development, coaching, supporting staff effectiveness.

• Serve as case manager for students on the assigned caseload, including maintaining educational records, monitoring IEP implementation, coordinating required documentation, tracking progress toward IEP goals, and ensuring timelines and compliance requirements are met.
• Schedule, coordinate, and participate in IEP meetings and multidisciplinary meetings, including meetings involving parents/guardians, OKCPS staff, hospital staff, related service providers, outside agency partners when appropriate, and other required team members.
• Collaborate with hospital staff to ensure IEPs reflect the most accurate and currently available educational, behavioral, functional, and transition-related information, while maintaining appropriate confidentiality and role boundaries.
• Participate in hospital-specific training, district professional development, and joint training with hospital staff that may exceed the training expectations of a traditional classroom teacher.
• Consult and collaborate with general education teachers, related service providers, OKCPS administrators, hospital staff, parents/guardians, and receiving school teams to support student progress and continuity of…