Special Education Instructional Classroom Teacher – Primary SKILLS Classroom (ED/BD) (2021-2022 School Year)

Job title: Special Education Instructional Classroom Teacher – Primary SKILLS Classroom (ED/BD) (2021-2022 School Year)

Company: DuPage Regional Office of Education

Job description:

• Special Education Instructional Classroom Teacher – Primary SKILLS Classroom (ED/BD) (2021-2022 School Year) JobID: 5963

• Position Type:

Elementary School Teaching/Special Education – Instructional Level Program

• Date Posted:

1/26/2021

• Location:

Emerson Elementary

• Date Available:

August 2021

• District:

Community Unit School District 200
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Summary of Position: SKILLS stands for Supporting Kids In Lifelong Learning of Social-Emotional SKILLS. In this position, the selected candidate will be the Lead Classroom Teacher within the Primary SKILLS classrooms (K-2) for students who need intensive intervention to learn appropriate socialization, self-regulation, and self-advocacy skills. The selected candidate will also partner with another special education teacher (who supports the SKILLS program K-5) to share various responsibilities. Considerable judgment is needed to make decisions in carrying out this assignment. To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and /or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to ensure individuals with disabilities can perform the essential functions.

Job Requirements:

• Current Illinois Professional Educator License (PEL)
• LBS1 Endorsement
• Deep understanding of special education and able to intervene effectively using trauma informed care, restorative practices, and research based behavioral strategies and responses.
• Prepare and implement meaningful lesson plans that provide students with general education CORE curriculum and/or interventions that engage and appropriately challenge the students.
• Ability to administer assessments, evaluate students progress, make data-based decisions, and provide appropriate remediation for both academics and behavior.
• Strong classroom/behavior management and positive discipline skills.
• Working knowledge of emotional regulation skills and techniques.
• Maintain a productive and professional relationship with co-teachers and support personnel.
• Function as a leader of the special education team, execute team based decisions, accept feedback, and generalize training.
• Collaborate effectively and proactively with students, general educational staff, support personnel, community agencies, and parents.
• Highly organized with effective interpersonal and communication skills.
• Flexible and receptive to change; a critical thinker who can continually generalize and apply new learning.
• Maintain a calm, focused demeanor while supporting students in varying states of emotional-behavioral distress.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships with students.

Typical Duties:

• Collaborate with teachers in a PLC to prepare, adapt, and deliver instructional material in accordance with student needs.
• Establish and reinforce a classroom management system to maintain a positive learning environment.
• Intervene and de-escalate struggling students with minimal disruption to the classroom learning environment.
• Actively supervise and provide feedback to students in groups and individually in classroom, school building, and social-curricular activities.
• Teach desirable habits by providing students with opportunities for which they are best suited.
• Participate in special education meetings, evaluations, development of interventions, writing of the IEP, and evaluation of student progress.
• Monitor and maintain student records and progress for review and revisions of IEPs.
• Effectively present and communicate student needs/progress and respond appropriately to questions from parents and staff.
• Schedule, lead, train, and model best practices for classroom assistants while also providing feedback to assistants to improve performance, as needed.

Physical Ability:
Employees in this position must have the ability to:

• Sit and/or stand for extended periods of time.
• Enter data into a computer, use standard office equipment, and use telephone.
• See and read a computer screen and printed material with or without visual aids.
• Hear and understand speech at normal levels and on the telephone.
• Stand, walk and bend over, reach overhead, grasp, push and pull, lift and /or carry up to 25 pounds waist height.
• Occasionally lift or move up to 100 lbs., such as lifting a child from the floor.

Work Environment:
Collaborative team with supportive administration. Hazards- Potential exposure to communicable disease and contact with blood and other body fluids; potential exposure to physical injury from aggressive behavior. The noise level is occasionally loud.

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Location: USA

Job date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:13:48 GMT

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