Special Education DLC Teacher @ Mountainview Elementary School

Special Education DLC Teacher @ Mountainview Elementary School

West Valley School District Mountainview Elementary - Yakima, Washington

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• Job : 5843456
• Final date to receive applications: Jul 27, 2026 11:59 PM (Pacific Standard Time)
• Posted: Jul 21, 2026 7:00 AM (UTC)
• Starting Date: Aug 3, 2026

Primary Purpose

The primary purpose of this position is to provide students with instruction which enables them to meet their goals and objectives as described in their Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).

Directly Responsible to: Building Principal and Director of Special Education

Essential Functions

• Provides equity, personalized learning, and inclusive strategies.
• Maintains a positive attitude and productive learning environment.
• Sets high expectations for student achievement and behavior.
• Identifies skill deficits in academics, social, behavioral, and adaptive areas and initiates instruction in these areas.
• Adapts curriculum, materials, and teaching techniques to meet the individual needs of students.
• Designs and conducts valid assessments which reflect present levels of performance for use in the development of IEPs and WA-AIM.
• Develops IEPs with input from the IEP team which reflect individual student needs in all domains of need identified by the school psychologist’s evaluation.
• Collects frequent data on all IEP goals and objectives, WA-AIM, and behavior plans to reflect students’ progress.
• Keeps all paperwork legally compliant and current in accordance with mandated timelines.
• Incorporates IEP requirements within students’ daily lesson plans.
• Instructs students in accordance with WVSD adopted curriculum guidelines and common core state standards.
• Mainstreams students in regular classroom settings as appropriate.
• Proactively collaborates with and supports general education teachers so that mainstreaming can be achieved.
• Communicates regularly and proactively with parents to keep them apprised of their child’s progress and behavior.
• Suggests techniques to promote learning at home.
• Actively participates and is flexible in collaborating with special education staff and works cooperatively with regular classroom teachers.
• Extends skills and uses techniques from specialists in the classroom environment.
• Incorporates augmentative communication in the classroom as needed based on student enrollment (e.g., AAC).
• Supports the building and district goals and positively participates in special education and building meetings.
• Effectively uses para educators – provides supervision, direction, and training.
• Provides positive behavioral support to students.
• Effectively writes and implements behavior plans as necessary using team input.
• Restrains students from harming themselves or others.
• Ensures students’ ability to participate in school‑based Special Olympics activities.
• May be required to provide detailed one-to-one assistance with changing, diapering, personal hygiene, etc.
• May be required to assist students with feeding and administer tube feeding.
• Knowledgeable and experienced with discrete trial including supervision and implementation with para educators.

* The list of essential functions in this job description is not exhaustive and may be supplemented as necessary by determination of an appropriate administrator and Human Resources.

Other Functions

• Possesses strong classroom management skills.
• Proficient in developing complex schedules for students and paraprofessionals that coordinate with general education, resource, and specialist staff schedules.
• Maintains a high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality.
• Models appropriate professional behaviors at all times.
• Remains calm and collected when managing difficult and potentially aggressive student behavior.
• Observes and utilizes professional medical/safety precautions to include positioning children in a safe and secure manner in adaptive equipment and transferring orthopedically disabled children to and from different equipment including toilets.
• Other duties as assigned.

Working Relationships

Communicates regularly with students, parents/guardians, and teaching staff. Required to deal with a wide range of student behaviors; required to…