About This Role
This teaching position provides a specialized education program for eligible students, fostering their physical, emotional, psychological, and behavioral growth to their fullest potential. The role involves close collaboration with other staff and parents to support student development.
Responsibilities
- Provide a basic core program for eligible students consistent with state education code requirements
- Work cooperatively with classroom teachers who have eligible students in regular classes, interpreting the abilities and disabilities of these students to the entire staff, and assisting the student with regular class assignments
- Confer frequently with parents and professional staff members regarding the educational, social, and personal problems of such students
- Assist other professional staff members in resolving the unique psychological or disciplinary problems of eligible students
- Assist in screening, evaluating, and recommending placements of eligible students in the school's Special Education program
- Assist the eligible student in making a realistic assessment of their abilities and in establishing educational and occupational goals in keeping with these abilities
- Counsel individuals and groups of eligible students with educational, occupational, and personal problems
- Provide motivation to eligible students who have a short attention span
- Undertake continuing professional study in the psychology of the handicapped student in teaching methods related to this field
- Keep attendance records and all other records pertinent to the Special Education program for state reports
- Maintain an up-to-date I.E.P. on all special education resource students and modify as determined by the IEP Team
- Actively participate in all S-Team and IEP Team meetings
- Adhere to all local, state, and federal laws and guidelines pertaining to Special Education
- Perform other duties as directed by the principal, supervisors, or Director of Schools
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution
- A valid Tennessee teaching certificate with endorsement in Special Education
- Willingness and ability to work with eligible students
Important Details
- Schedule: ten, eleven, or twelve month year
Application Process
- Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel
