Job Title: Special Education Teacher
Supervisor Job Title: Principal
Employment Status: Full-time; 10 month
FLSA Status: Salary
The management services offered to our charter schools, allow us to collectively become a change agent and national leader in urban education as evidenced by student awareness of self, high academic achievement, positive school culture, and community transformation wherever we serve.
Location: 5401 Tabor Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19120 (Northeast Philadelphia)
Responsibilities
- Provide direct and indirect instructional support to students in a positive environment.
- Employ special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory
- Instruct students in academic subjects using a variety of techniques such as phonetics, multi-sensory learning, and repetition to reinforce learning and to meet students' varying needs and interests
- Teach socially acceptable behavior, as determined by the students’ individualized education programs (IEPs) by employing techniques in an overall positive behavioral support system
- Modify the general education curriculum for students with disabilities based upon a variety of instructional techniques and technologies
- Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate
- Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining an environment conducive to learning for all students
- Meet with parents to discuss their children's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their individualized educational needs
- Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, and other professionals to develop individualized education programs (IEPs) designed to promote students' educational, physical, and social/emotional development
- Maintain accurate and complete student records and prepare reports on children and activities, as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations
- Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students
