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Severe Special Education Teacher - All Grades
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What they do
A Special Education Teacher teaches students who have disabilities, and adapts teaching methods to meet the needs of students. Assesses students and helps to develop individualized education plans that specify the services and accommodations needed for each student. Works in a classroom that includes only students with IEPs, or works with students and teachers in regular classes. For students with severe disabilities, may focus on developing skills for independent living. Works as part of a team that includes therapists, school counselors or social workers.
$82,726 / year median in Massachusetts
+9% projected growth
Job Description
- All Grades CREST Collaborative
- 3.
The ideal candidate will ensure student progress toward team-identified skills and competencies, by development, delivery, supervision, and evaluation of specialized instruction. Experience using the principals of PBIS, behavioral intervention, data collection and data review/analysis is required.
Essential duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Conduct and write formal diagnostic and functional assessment to support special education assessment.
- Conduct and write formal diagnostic and functional assessment to identify need areas during reassessment.
- Develop and write Individual Education Plans for students. With appropriate team members, identify individualized instructional priorities in indicated domains, including the general academic curriculum, functional academic skills, communication and social skills, social and behavioral development, recreation and leisure skills, functional and community living skills and pre-vocational skills.
- Participate in TEAM meetings for students and demonstrate professionalism and excellent communication skills to share information with all stakeholders (Districts, Families, outside Providers)
- Write objectives that are concrete, specifying the conditions, behavior, support, objective performance criterion, and target date
- Develop and deliver instruction to students. Determine the applicability of specialized curricula and instructional techniques using evidenced based practice.
- In collaboration with support staff, adapt and//or modify curricula and instruction drawn form the general academic curriculum. Deliver instruction in the least restrictive environment in which student growth on objectives is demonstrated.
- Train and supervise special education support staff (instructional assistants, applied behavior analysis technicians, registered behavior technicians) in the development and delivery of the curricula.
- Develop and implement continuous progress data collection procedures to assess student growth using objective measures such as percent correct, event recording, interval recording, latency measures, prompt recording, or other objective data.
- Review student progress frequently (i.
Benefits
- Dental Insurance