Teacher - Secondary; Special Education - Inclusion

Special Education Teacher

Assume responsibility for the instructional program for students with disabilities. Minimum qualifications include a bachelor's or master's degree in education or a related field, and a Virginia Collegiate Professional License or Postgraduate Professional License with appropriate endorsement in Special Education. Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, and to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, staff, parents, and the community.

Ability to develop and maintain required records and written reports. High moral standards and integrity. Ability to use computer software programs and web-based applications. Ability to circulate around classrooms with varied seating and desk organization patterns. Ability to travel to more than one work location in the course of the day if assigned to an itinerant position. Ability to prepare required written reports.

Ability to monitor and ensure appropriate student behavior, including outdoor activity areas, gymnasiums, etc. Performance responsibilities include teaching socially acceptable behavior in instructional settings, developing lesson plans and instructional materials, collaborating with school staff and parents to develop individualized educational programs (IEP) for students, communicating regularly with parents or guardians to discuss student progress, serving as a contributing member of school multidisciplinary teams, adapting and modifying curricula and instruction as required by individual students' educational plans, conducting assessments, testing and diagnostic examinations of students, evaluating students' progress, managing allotted learning time to maximize student achievement, collaborating with general education teachers to plan for specially designed instruction for students with disabilities, facilitating data collection process related to progress of IEP and academic goals, serving as a member of Child Study, Eligibility, and IEP Committees, and performing other duties as assigned by building administrator.

Working conditions include the ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time, exhibit manual dexterity, hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors and on the telephone, speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors and on the telephone, physical agility to lift up to 25 pounds, and to bend, to stoop, to sit on the floor, to climb stairs, to walk and to reach overhead.

Reports to:

Building Administrator. Terms of employment: 200 days a year. Salary according to School Board Pay Plan. Evaluation:
Performance on this job will be evaluated in accordance with School Board policy and administrative regulations on evaluation of (licensed/non-licensed) personnel. The York County School Division does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, sex, gender, age or disability, or any other protected class in its educational programs, activities or employment and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.