Special Education Self-Contained Teacher

What You'll Do

The Special Education Self-Contained Teacher provides targeted, intensive intervention in a small group direct instruction setting where scholars strengthen foundational skills and build confidence. The teacher works across multiple campuses and grade levels to strengthen foundational skills, accelerate academic growth, and expand access to grade level learning.

Core Commitments

• Develop a palpably positive classroom and school climate with frequent and authentic instances of shared smiling, laughter, and enthusiasm where joy is deeply rooted in achievement, content, and team/individual successes.
• Believe that scholar actions and mindsets stem from teacher actions and mindsets.
• Back-to-basics, liberal arts school: fundamental belief in teaching kids to be critical thinkers through ELA and STEM.
• Develop a strong skill foundation.
• Ensure all scholars complete the cognitive work during the lesson, such as reading, writing, discussion, analysis, meaning-making, computation, and problem-solving.
• Display that you value risk-taking, especially when the work is challenging. Expect all scholars to attempt all work, take academic risks, and learn from their mistakes.
• Sweat the small stuff. Believe that scholars want and need to be held to a higher standard and that scholars are capable of making good choices.
• Teach and enforce school-wide systems, rules and consequences, disciplinary codes, and rewards at all times.
• Know that warm and strict are not opposites.
• Team, team, team: support community, learn from one another and respect each other enough to hold high expectations for ourselves and our scholars.
• Value parents as our partners.
• Model what we expect because we know adults drive culture.
• Believe in a all hands on deck mentality.
• Constant improvement: gain energy from the feedback cycle, use feedback to make productive changes.
• Diversity and equity: ensure our community is an inclusive and safe place.
• People, paper, college: execute rigorous instructional materials, support teammates, families and scholars, do whatever it takes to ensure scholars go to and graduate from college.

• Classroom Culture: ensure scholars are full participants in a structured, productive and safe learning environment through participation, internalization of class/school culture systems, consistent routines, engaging in meaningful work, celebration of character values and a belief that one can be both warm and strict.
• Ambitious Content: ensure scholars work with content that develops their understanding of ideas and skills essential to the course; plan backwards, communicate objectives, execute rigorous course materials, assist scholars in making meaningful connections, and frequently use formal and informal data to ensure mastery.
• Ownership and Engagement: ensure scholars are deeply engaged in the work; synthesize diverse information, complete cognitive work, build upon peers’ thinking, receive feedback, take academic risks, and provide meaningful oral or written evidence.
• Demonstration of Learning: enable scholars to demonstrate mastery of rigorous course goals via assessments, self‑monitoring and progress tracking.
• Commitment to Excellence: collaborate, remain engaged, demonstrate ownership for shared culture, solve issues, embody continual improvement; receive observations and coaching from an Assistant Principal of Instruction or Principal.

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Oklahoma special education (mild/mod) certification is required or standard certification with acquisition of mild/mod certification within one year of employment.
• Subject area certification, early childhood, or elementary education certification is preferred.

• Prior teaching experience in a school serving a similar population to THA’s is preferred.
• Charter school experience is preferred.

• THA’s certified salary schedule starts at $47,000 plus incentives for certified Special Educators; salary is commensurate with full‑time, K‑12 teaching experience in accredited schools. THA’s compensation includes a comprehensive benefits package.

• Reports to and is held accountable by the Director of Scholar Interventions.
• Serves multiple grades and multiple school sites in a self‑contained setting.
• Completes daily arrival and dismissal duty for In‑School Suspension scholars.
• Provides minutes of service according to scholars' IEPs and ensures scholars achieve the goals set forth in their IEPs.
• Consults with teachers and site leaders to ensure scholars receive appropriate accommodation.
• Accurately archives scholars' Special Education documentation and collects forms required for meeting.
• Crafts instructionally appropriate IEPs.
• Participates in or leads the MEEGS, REDS, and IEP meetings for their scholars.
• Completes compliance tasks as assigned by the Director of Scholar Interventions.
• Follows THA’s Academic Calendar.
• Full‑time, exempt.