Education Specialist -Mild-Moderate Bilingual; Spanish and English

Job Details

Job Location:

San Jose, CA 95111

Position Type:
Full Time

Salary Range: $64,446.00 - $97,299.00 Salary

Overview

Though 9 in 10 Latino young adults say a college degree is important for success in life, fewer than 15% age 25 or older hold a bachelor’s degree. Voices College-Bound Language Academies exists to change that.

Voices is a public charter school network with a mission to prepare all students for the challenges of higher education through the context of an academically rigorous dual-immersion program. Every student, regardless of home language, graduates bilingual and biliterate in English and Spanish.

Voices Academies’ Education Specialist (SPED) Teacher will be an inspiring and motivating educator who can work independently. Under the supervision of the Principal and Student Services Manager, the Education Specialist is responsible for the success of students in the primary academic areas (reading, writing, language, and/or math, etc) through implementing Voices approved curriculum; documenting teaching and student progress/activities/outcomes; modeling the necessary skills to perform assignments;

providing a safe and optimal learning environment and providing feedback to students, classroom teachers, parents and administration regarding student progress, expectations, goal, etc. The Educational Specialist will have the responsibility, in consultation with administration, to design and implement curriculum, develop school-wide instructional strategies, and administer assessments in an effort to best fit the needs of the school's target students. The SPED teacher will be responsible for managing the IEP caseload for students.

To achieve our goals, the Education Specialist will implement various instructional strategies and curricula in the following environments:
Core classes, Intervention classes, Small group and one-on-one student pull out.

• Provides educational instruction as outlined in the IEP for identified individuals with exceptional needs and monitors the implementation of the IEP
• Provides leadership for ensuring full compliance with legal requirements as prescribed by federal law under IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Act 1997) and IDEIA (Individuals with Disabilities in Education Improvement Act, 2004) and State of California Education Code
• Uses the school's data analysis tools to drive instructional practices, re-teaching strategies, and interventions
• Responds to student data on a weekly, quarterly, and yearly basis based on student need
• Provides accommodations and/or modifications to learners with disabilities for assignments and testing as determined by the IEP team
• Instruct students for the purpose of improving their success in assigned basic academic subject areas of reading, writing and/or math, etc.
• Manages student behavior for the purpose of providing a safe and optimal learning environment, developing behavior support plans as needed
• Plan learning activities appropriate to subject(s), grade level(s), abilities, and cultural background of individual students
• Create an atmosphere through personal example and efficacious relationships with students which inspire academic achievement and an enthusiasm for learning
• Organize classroom systems/procedures/routines and manage student behavior to ensure students are fully engage in learning
• Establish a culture of high expectations and college preparation for all students
• Develop lesson plans consistent with Voices best practices & guidelines, instructional materials and provide individualized and small group instruction in order to adapt the curriculum to the needs of each student
• Motivate pupils to develop skills, attitudes and knowledge needed to provide a good foundation for elementary education
• Challenge and accelerate ALL students, no matter at what level they enter the classroom
• Develop and evaluate independent study programs

• Provides ongoing educational assessments and diagnosis of children for the purpose of identifying special learning problems and coordinates the development of individual instructional plans as appropriate for students identified with special needs
• Evaluates students' abilities in basic academics for the purpose of assisting other personnel in the diagnosis of learning disorders, development of remediation plans and/or student progress
• Administers standardized achievement tests, interprets results to determine learners' strengths and areas of need for initial, annual and triennial assessments
• Drafts and writes professional and compliant IEP's, as well as finalize the data in SEIS (affirm all IEP'S)
• Establish procedures to process and place eligible students: develop screening programs in areas of academics and behavior; use data to determine eligibility for special education services; and provide research-based instruction and interventions of increasing intensity of supports to benefit all students
• Coordinates referral and assessment procedures and facilitates the…