Communication Skills, Detail Oriented, Documentation, Organizational Skills, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Progress Reports, Scaffolding, Service Delivery, Student Admissions, Training/Teaching, Writing Skills
K-8 SPED Teacher
Job Category: Teacher Requisition Number: K8SPE001012
Posted: October 9, 2024
Full-Time
On-site
New Orleans, LA 70119, USA
Job Details
Position Responsibilities:
- 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.
SPED TEACHER reports to: SPED Coordinator
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