Silver High-Special Education Math Teacher

Salary Not Available Position range in Southwestern Region $54k - $73k Per Year Silver High-Special Education Math Teacher Silver High School

Occupation:

Special Education Teachers, Secondary School

Location:

Silver City, NM - 88061

Job Type:

Full Time (30 Hours or More)

Posted:

06/18/2026 Positions available: 1

Source:

SchoolSpring

Web Site:

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Position:

Special Education Teacher Supervisor:

Principal/Special Education Director General Job Description:

1. Provide special education students with, learning activities and experiences designed to help them fulfill their potential for intellectual, emotional, physical, and social growth. 2. Develop or modify curricula and prepare lessons and other instructional materials to match student ability levels. 3. Work in self-contained, team, departmental, or itinerant capacity as assigned. 4. Develop goals and objectives for self, grade level/content group and student academic achievement. 5. Facilitate IEP meetings and ensure that IEPs are implemented as specified in the written document.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Collaborate with other classroom teachers, school psychologists, learning disabilities specialists, speech/hearing specialists, and school social workers to provide an integrated plan for developing the capacities of their students. 2. Maintain current IEPs on students. 3. Monitor the implementation of the IEP in the general education setting as well as the special education setting. 4. Monitor student progress on IEP goals and keep written records of progress. 5. Maintain consistent and positive communications with parents and teachers. 6. Set learning goals for each student, assess their progress, and record their evaluations. 7. Update parents on the progress of their students and enlist parental support with behavior control and home activities designed to supplement their classroom lessons. 8. Supervise and train teaching assistants. 9. Help plan for the transition of students in accordance with both federal and state laws. 10. Ensure that a transition plan is written and implemented to ensure students are either college or career ready after high school. 11. Create classroom environment conducive to learning and appropriate for the physical, social, and emotional development of students. 12. Manage student behavior and administer discipline including intervening in crisis situations and physically restraining students as necessary according to IEP. 13. Consult with classroom teachers regarding management of student behavior according to IEP. 14. Take all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, materials, and facilities. 15. Plan and assign the work of teacher aide(s) and volunteer(s) and oversee completion. 16. Maintains documentation to assure accountability.

Additional Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Conduct ongoing assessments of student achievements through formal and informal testing. 2. Provide or supervise personal care, medical care, and feeding of students as stated in IEP. 3. Assume responsibility for extracurricular activities as assigned. Sponsor outside activities approved by campus principal. 4. Consult district and outside resource people regarding education, social, medical, and personal needs of students. 5. Possess efficient organizational skills. 6. Maintain professional written and oral communication skills. 7. Ability to maintain high level of professionalism and confidentiality regarding students, staff, parents, and school matters. 8. Assure that goals and objectives in Individual Educational Plans (IEPs) are completed. 9. Good knowledge of current special education topics and methodologies. 10. Participate in staff development activities to improve job-related skills. 11. Keep informed of, and comply with federal, state, district, and school regulations and policies for special education teachers.

Qualifications:

Education/Certification:

• Bachelor's degree from accredited university
• Valid New Mexico teaching certificate(s) with required special education endorsements for assignments

Physical Requirements:

1. Maintain emotional control under stress. 2. Frequent standing, stooping, bending, kneeling, pushing, and pulling. Move small stacks of textbooks, media equipment, desks, and other classroom or adaptive equipment. 3. May be required to lift and position students with physical disabilities; control behavior through physical restraint; and assist non-ambulatory students.

Equipment/Material Handled:

The specific equipment and materials will vary according to the school and student to which assigned.

Work Environment:

Special Education is a service for students with IEPS. Their success is dependent upon close collaboration among education teachers, general education teachers, parents, educational assistants, related service providers, administrators, and other personnel. The special education environment is highly collaborative and requires ongoing communication among all support personnel.

Terms of Employment:

• Contract Days
• Salary
• Benefits Available 1.

Every person, including any school employee, licensed or unlicensed, who has information that is not privileged as a matter of law and who knows or has a reasonable suspicion that a child is abused or neglected shall immediately make a report to the New Mexico Child Abuse Hotline (1-855-333-SAFE or #SAFE from a cell phone), a local law enforcement agency, the Children, Youth and Families Department office in the county where the child resides, or a tribal law enforcement or social services agency for an Indian child residing in Indian country. Any employee who knowingly fails to report suspected child abuse or neglect as required by 30-6-4 NMSA 1978 may be subject to criminal penalties, disciplinary action, up to and including the discharge or termination of employment. Similarly, any employee who knowingly fails to report suspected sexual exploitation of a student or another employee engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a student beyond the boundaries expected for an employee-student relationship may be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including the discharge or termination of employment. 2. Employees are responsible for the proper care, use, and safeguarding of all School District facilities, equipment, vehicles, property, records, keys, identification badges, technology devices, and materials entrusted to their custody or control. Upon voluntary or involuntary separation from his or her employment, employees shall immediately return all School District property as directed. Failure to return any and all School District property to which the employee was responsible for or returning it in damaged condition, excluding normal wear and tear from use, may result in payroll deductions as permitted by law, civil recovery efforts, disciplinary action, and/or referral to law enforcement when appropriate. By executing this Contract for employment, the employee acknowledges and agrees to the payroll deduction for missing or damaged School District property at his or her separation from employment and knowingly waives any right to the payment of salary under any and all wage laws taken from the final payment for missing and/or damaged School District property.