Designs lessons that lead to standards mastery and are aligned to grade level expectations/learning connectors for students with disabilities and end-of-year assessments
Provides feedback to scholars by asking pertinent, scaffolded follow-up questions that affirm correctly understood content, clarify misunderstood content or extend scholars’ thinking
Establishes effective classroom routines and manages students effectively without disruptions (redirects inappropriate behavior)
Inspires and invests students in achieving their goals and in believing that goals are achieved through effort and not innate abilities
Prepares scholars to solve complex problems with no obvious answer
Seeks out and constructively responds to feedback from and engages in problem-solving with others
Provides IEP minutes
Ensures compliant IEP documentation for all students on caseload by facilitating IEP development, FBA/BIPs development and implementation, transition planning, and maintaining other supporting documentation related to service delivery (logs, progress reports, Extended School Year, etc)
Requirements
Education & Experience:
2 or more years of lead teaching (as the teacher of record)
Demonstrated success working with students in an urban, open admissions school
A BA or BS
A strong background in and command of content area
Louisiana Teacher Certification (SPED) Completed or in progress (or be eligible to hold for our out-of-state applicants) in the specific disability/grade levels served - FirstLine will cover certification costs if you are not already certified
Desired Qualities & Characteristics:
Believe in every student’s ability to achieve in a rigorous college or career prep curriculum
Achieve results based on agreed-upon expectations
Take personal responsibility
Highly detail-oriented
Collaborate effectively with a range of stakeholders
Share a commitment to creating great schools in New Orleans
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Model the FirstLine values of Service, Learning, Collaboration and Results
Physical Requirements:
Must be able to perform all required job functions with reasonable accommodations, if necessary.