Special Education Teacher Private

Job Description

Job Description

We're looking for a skilled, professional Special Education Teacher to join our team. The successful candidate must have strong classroom management skills and is able to supervise para-professionals with-in their classroom. You must be able to create differentiated lesson plans for a self-contained classroom, A successful candidate will have experience meeting the needs of students with both mild and severe emotional and behavioral disabilities in a private school setting.

Provides individualized instruction based on each child's goals and abilities, while providing a structured yet nurturing environment.

Qualifications:

• Holds a VDOE Teacher’s License
• Hold a Bachelor’s Degree or higher
• You must be creative, energetic, innovative and have a desire to make a difference in the lives of our students.
• Experience in education or work experience with children in special education.
• Experience in teaching functional life skills and pre-vocational skills is welcomed.
• Demonstrates an ability to teach special education students identified as emotionally disturbed, autistic and/or learning disabled.
• Demonstrates the ability to work effectively with others, such as, students, teachers, therapist, parent/guardians, involved agencies, community and administration.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain a safe and secure environment for students. (Classroom management)
• Maintain a classroom environment where students feel safe to express their thoughts and feelings.
• Provide students with opportunities to develop social skills that will help them succeed in school and in the future workplace.
• Build upon the strengths of students who have experienced difficulty in academic environments.
• Participate in curriculum/material selection and development.
• Participate as an active member of the school's community (e.g., parent-teacher conferences, meetings, open houses).
• Assess and evaluate the results of all available educational, behavioral and psychological testing to determine baseline ability and achievement levels.
• Accommodates students based on IEPs for each student consistent with the student’s ability level and achievement goals.
• Develops and facilitates innovative, project-based, hands-on activities, and DIFFERENTIATED lesson plans consistent with the IEP.
• Teacher must be flexible enough to be able to adapt to changes in the student and/or classroom.
• Able to provide timely and accurate documentation.
• Provide consistency and positive reinforcement throughout the classroom.

Company Description

Our Mission, Vision, and Values (Equal Opportunity Employer)
Mission:
The mission of the Educational Development Center's therapeutic programming is to provide a therapeutic, intensive academic and behavioral program to students who have been identified as emotionally disabled, learning disabled, intellectually disabled, autism, multi-disabled and those with other health impairments. Towards that end, EDC facilitates a behavior management programs that provides consistent structure to the classroom and allows for individualized academic instruction.
Vision :

Our vision is to provide an accepting, safe and inclusive educational community that provides our students with a foundation for success and survival in every aspect of a young person’s life. “We think Differently”. EDC aims to provide educational alternative, intensive academic and behavioral support to the individual goals of each student, by incorporating project based and hands-on- learning with innovation and social emotional learning, to meet each child’s needs and goals.
Values :

The values of the Educational Development Center revolve around the motto, “We Think Differently”. We understand that our students learn differently, and require different strategies…