English Teacher

English TeacherProvides academic instruction in English education to students in Community Correctional Facility (CCF) across a wide range of grade and educational levels from upper elementary through high school.Essential duties and responsibilities include:Observing youth's behavior and maintaining awareness of the youth's emotional and physical needs, with particular attention to depression, suicide ideation, and aggressive tendencies towards others.Teaching English class and making use of supplemental instruction/media resources.Maintaining a thorough understanding of subject matter and organizing appropriate subject content and learning goals to facilitate the accrual of high school credit.Planning and implementing daily lesson plans in accordance with educational curriculum.Developing individualized educational plans for each student with daily, weekly, and quarterly objectives.Evaluating student's work and academic progress, assessing student abilities, conducting proficiency tests, recording grades, and providing reports on behavior and treatment progress.Updating grades weekly, providing progress reports to stakeholders when requested, communicating challenges to the Building Coordinator and/or Director, and inputting grades when due to reflect student earned credit.Other duties and responsibilities include attending various facility events and activities, meeting with individual students in the living unit to assist in schoolwork, participating in various groups, committees, and treatment teams to improve the overall program, and performing other specific job-related duties as directed.Contacts with others include students, parents/guardians, Building Coordinators/principals, Probation Officers, Probation Managers/Supervisors, School Counselors, Transition Coordinators, Special education personnel, School districts of residence, Clinical support staff, and external agency representatives.Confidential data includes detained youth files, medical records, behavioral logs and documentation, non-public record information contained in personnel files, psychological testing reports, special education records, youth transcripts, youth report cards, youth educational evaluations, and youth behavior intervention plans.Working conditions involve an individual classroom setting within a secure correctional treatment environment with exposure to potentially violent youth and possible exposure to contagious diseases, head lice, and blood-borne pathogens.Required knowledge, skills, and abilities include knowledge of human growth and development, education principles and standards, behavior management, teaching strategies for non-traditional students and those with emotional, behavioral, and learning disabilities, crisis intervention process and techniques, basic psychology and human relations, security and safety precautions, classroom organization and management, cognitive development and dysfunction in children and adolescents, and reading problems and strategies.Ability to maintain flexibility in adjusting course curriculum and materials to varying learning levels, adapt to varying learning styles, work in a secured environment, work with troubled juveniles, communicate with students with a wide range of abilities, experiences, education, and discipline, empathize with youths' problems and serve as a role model, develop and maintain effective working relationships with associates, youth, family members, visitors, maintain confidentiality of sensitive subject matter, exhibit creative thinking, and work in a secure environment.Skill in teaching, dealing with juvenile behavior problems, verbal and written communication, CPR, First Aid and Crisis Prevention Intervention, listening, and operation of computer and computer software.Qualifications include a minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Education or a related field with a 4-year Resident Educator License or 5-year Professional License in Subject Matter (Grades 7-12). Or the ability to obtain an Alternative Teaching License within 6 months of starting employment.Previous teaching experience is preferred but not required. Experience working with youth who are at risk of school failure, including students with disabilities, is preferred. Ability to document identity and employment eligibility within three (3) days of original appointment as a condition of employment in compliance with Immigration Reform and Control Act requirements.Licensure or certification requirements include State of Ohio Teaching Certificate and/or Licensure in content area or an Alternate Resident Educator License within 6 months as a condition of employment; State Motor Vehicle Operator's License; First Aid and CPR certification; Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) (May be obtained after appointment).