Middle School Special Education Teacher

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the provision of direct classroom, small group and individual instruction including designing and delivering appropriate curriculum/programming according to student's readiness, interest, learning profile, IEP goals and the MA curriculum frameworks.
• Design a learning environment to support all students' learning by facilitating various learning activities and integrating multiple opportunities for student feedback and collaboration with peers.
• Utilize a variety of teaching strategies and practices that are effective with diverse learners.
• Responsible for conducting formative assessments and ongoing summative assessments to measure student growth, provide feedback and differentiate instruction.
• Responsible for supporting student use of tools, resources, and scaffolding to promote student development of learning strategies and executive functioning skills.
• Promote, model, develop and support positive behaviors and social-emotional development in all students.
• Responsible for supporting and facilitating opportunities for inclusion.
• Responsible for collaborating and consulting with related service providers, educators, school/grade-level teams, district teams and administrators.
• Responsible for collaborating with families, having ongoing family contact and promoting family involvement.
• Responsible for serving as liaison for an assigned caseload, chairing annual review team meetings as assigned, writing Individualized Education Programs and progress notes.