SPED Teacher

Special Education Teacher

Reports To:

Principal

Specific

Job Responsibilities:

• Writes benchmark and goal aligned IEPs for students.
• Conducts IEP reviews as needed to amend student schedules or accommodations, to add or revise FBAs and/or behavior plans and for all other reason stated in rules and regulations.
• Becomes familiar with Mississippi IDEA regulations and adheres to them.
• Participates in IEP reviews with special education teachers in upper and lower adjacent grades and plans a smooth transition for students for the next year.
• Teaches and supervises activities in special education and inclusion settings.
• Provides IEP goal and accommodation sheets, for each student on the special education teacher's roster, to all teachers who teach the students.
• Completes paperwork by deadlines given by building principal and/or Student Support Office.
• Complies with all IDEA timelines for evaluation, IEP, and reporting.
• Records student progress on IEP and sends it to parents at least quarterly.
• Confers frequently with general education teachers and other service providers about Special Education students.
• Monitors progress of students' IEP goals biweekly.
• Reports regularly and punctually to assigned work location and notifies supervisor or designee of impending absence in a timely manner.
• Follows all regulations set forth in the general education teachers' job description.
• Promotes a positive image of the school district program to the public.
• Performs other duties/responsibilities as directed by the building level principal or Director of Student Support Services.