Oss Functional Adaptive Teacher – Leave Replacement

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Reports To: Building Principal

Bargaining Unit: SKEA

Department: Office of Special Services

Salary

Schedule:

SKSD Adopted

Employment Type: Certificated

FLSA Status: Hourly

Hours per Day: 7.5

Days per Year: 185

Starting Date: Immediately

Position Type: Full-Time

OSS FUNCTIONAL ADAPTIVE TEACHER – LEAVE REPLACEMENT

Reports To:

Building Principal

Bargaining Unit

SKEA

Department:

Office of Special Services

Salary

Schedule:

SKSD Adopted

Employment Type:

Certificated

Adoption Date:

FLSA Status:

Hourly

Revised Date:

Hours per Day:

7.5

Days per Year:

185

Belonging is a core value in the South Kitsap School District. We are passionate about building and sustaining an inclusive and equitable learning environment for all students and staff. We actively seek to understand the complex and rich identities of self and others and lean into and engage in courageous conversations. We know the educational environment is enhanced when diverse groups of people with unique ideas come together to learn and grow.

South Kitsap Employees Will:

• Maintain and enhance a sense of belonging and success for traditionally marginalized populations.
• Cultivate and develop inclusive and equitable working relationship with students, families, staff and community members.
• Demonstrate understanding of our unique cultures and celebrate differences.
• Embrace and actively promote an inclusive and equitable learning environment.

Comments:
This is a leave replacement position for the  school year only.

Summary:

This is a Special Education Functional Adaptive teaching position at Marcus Whitman Middle School, a progressive school where staff is committed to providing the best learning opportunities for all students. Parents, teachers, and students work together through effective communication, to provide a program that anticipates needs and responds to changes in our society, stressing positive self-esteem and the worth of the individual, with a strong focus on basic skills.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Participates as a team member with responsibility for the education of a group of special needs students.
• Develops, implements and monitors Individual Education Plans (IEPs), Functional Behavioral Assessments, and Behavioral Intervention Plans for assigned students; modifies instructional programs to meet individual student needs.
• Participates with other staff to cooperatively plan, develop, and implement a course of instruction designed to achieve required academic essential learnings (MSP) in all curriculum areas for special needs students.
• Participates with other staff to cooperatively develop effective, positive techniques for improving student behavior.
• Provides positive assistance and guidance to a diverse population.
• Maintains student records, including special education reports, daily grades, behavior scores, essential learnings data, cumulative records, orders, and inventory, in a timely and orderly fashion. Reports student progress to parents regularly.
• Provides instruction to students utilizing a variety of instructional strategies aimed at meeting individual student needs, and utilizing appropriate and available resources, including technology.
• Participates in child guidance discussions to provide appropriate programs for the developmental level of each student.
• Participates in team and individual instructional and behavioral planning with general education staff.
• Participates in staff meetings, planning events, IEP and related meetings, interagency meetings, when appropriate, and department/special education meetings.
• Participa…