Special Education Teacher

Overview

Special Education Teacher (Pending Budget Approval)

To give specialized academic and physical training to special needs students.

Holds a valid Tennessee teacher's license with appropriate endorsement
, has strong written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills; and meets health and physical requirements.

Building Principal

Exempt

200 Day

• Plans curriculum and prepares lessons and other materials, considering factors such as individual needs, abilities, learning levels, and physical limitations of students.
• Prepares for assigned classes and shows evidence of preparation upon request of immediate supervisor.
• Devises special teaching tools, techniques, and equipment.
• Provides intensive and systematic instruction according to each student's unique needs.
• Evaluates students using screening measures (i.e., Brigance, A.D.D. scales, vision screenings, hearing screenings, etc.).
• Grades and evaluates student performance, both written and demonstrative.
• Establishes guidelines for student behavior, monitors student behavior, and establishes and implements behavior modification programs.
• Maintains order in the classroom.
• Observes student behavior and performance within the regular classroom and provides consultative services to regular classroom teachers, as needed.
• Conducts IEP-team meetings and conferences with parents; plans, writes, and implements appropriate individualized education program (I.E.P.).
• Schedules student instruction and follows strict scheduling guidelines.
• Monitors and adjusts student programming as necessary.
• Counsels with parents and students.
• Knows and follows all safety rules and procedures.
• Maintains necessary records and completes the necessary paperwork.
• Administers diagnostic tests and evaluates student progress on a regular basis.
• Keeps attendance and grade records as required by the board of education.
• Observes students to detect signs of ill health or emotional disturbance and reports, as appropriate.
• Fosters cooperative social behavior.
• Reports to the principal any reasonable suspicion that a student's health or welfare has been harmed as a result of abuse or neglect.
• Represents the school and the community in a positive manner.
• Complies with board policies, school rules, and administrative regulations.
• Meets assigned classes in the locations and at the times designated.
• Attends work regularly and on-time.
• Participates in faculty and professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops; and
• Performs other duties as assigned.

This job requires attending work on-site, face-to-face interaction at the school or worksite and coordination of work with other employees and students. The work also includes immediate access to documents or information located only in the workplace.

• Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure.
• Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, and/or planning of an activity.
• Adaptability to working with students.
• Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based upon sensory or judgmental criteria.

Specific capacities and abilities may be required of an individual in order to learn or perform adequately a task or job duty.

• Intelligence: The ability to understand instructions and underlying principles; the ability to reason and make judgments.
• Verbal: The ability to understand meanings of words and the ideas associated with them.
• Numerical: The ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately.
• Data Perception: The ability to understand and interpret…