About This Role
This full-time role involves implementing school board policy regarding the educational curriculum for a particular instructional division or unit, with a focus on comprehensive life skills. The teacher will be assigned a caseload and will work under the general supervision of an administrator.
Responsibilities
- Administer appropriate district curriculum aligned with Common Core State Standards and IEP instructions
- Design and implement effective lessons for instruction and student assessments aligned with Common Core State Standards
- Design coherent, differentiated instruction and student assessments at the appropriate instructional level
- Provide appropriate instructions, modifications, adaptations, and implement Individual Education Plans (IEP) in an organized, systematic, and meaningful manner
- Analyze student progress and ensure assessment regulations and guidelines are followed
- Demonstrate mastery of content and pedagogy, knowledge of students and resources, typical developmental patterns of students, and characteristics of students with disabilities
- Set instructional outcomes for diverse learners
- Create an environment of respect and rapport while developing a climate that promotes positive learning conditions
- Maintain a positive, orderly, safe, accessible, and academically focused learning, resource-rich environment
- Manage classroom procedures and student behavior
- Demonstrate cultural competency
- Communicate learning expectations to students
- Engage students in learning
- Utilize discussion and questioning techniques
- Embed assessment in instruction
- Demonstrate flexibility and responsiveness
- Demonstrate familiarity with Multi-Tiered Systems of Support
- Demonstrate knowledge of strategies and accommodations to assist students with disabilities to access curriculum
- Coordinate effectively with other service staff in providing student instruction
- Maintain accurate records and IEPs as mandated by state and federal guidelines, within established timelines
- Demonstrate professionalism, integrity, and ethical conduct
- Support, communicate, and work professionally with administrators, staff, and community, following all protocols consistent with WCSD's procedures
- Make a focused effort to promote meaningful participation of parents in the IEP process
- Reflect on teaching
- Participate in a professional community
- Participate in other job-related duties and activities related to the position as assigned
- Work as part of an education/assessment team responsible for identifying, developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating individual objectives for assigned students
