Special Education Teacher - Gavras Center

Job Description

Job Description

Salary $50,000 - $65,000 per year

Employment Full Time 10 Month School Year plus 6 Week Summer Program ? Monday through Friday during program hours. Evening and weekend work maybe required as job duties demand.

 

Summary/Objective

The Special Education Teacher is responsible for working with students in the preschool throughout the day, who may have emotional, physical, learning or mental disabilities. This position also entails using various teaching methods to engage with students.

 

 

Essential Functions

 

• Prepares, plans and implements each student?s individualized education plan (IEP) including diagnostic/prescriptive performance characteristics and methods of implementation. Creates a daily program of educational and therapeutic activities designed to meet the stated IEP goals and objectives. Adapts general lessons to meet students? needs.
• Communicates information about the school program and curriculum to parents and other persons as appropriate through written and verbal means. Advises parents how they can reinforce what is taught in school at home.
• Assesses and documents students? skills continuously and determines their educational needs.
• Engages the involvement of the other teachers and therapists for their input on ideas and strategies for student support, progress and management techniques.
• Reviews IEP?s throughout the school year to reflect students? progress and goals.
• Discusses students? progress with parents, teachers and administrators.
• Participates in professional development activities to maintain and enhance professional competence.
• Ensures the room, furniture and other items in the room have been cleaned and sanitized per the Center of Disease Control (CDC) and Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) guidelines and that the steps have been documented.
• Ensures that children arriving or showing signs of becoming ill during the day must be taken to the Nurses Office immediately.
• Maintains training in CPR/First Aid according to Red Cross standards.
• Attends and participates in department, team, CSE, CPSE and other designated meetings.
• Meets with the Director regularly

 

Supervisory Responsibility: Directly supervises 1:1 Aides, Paraprofessionals, Classroom Aides, and Teaching

Assistants

 

Other Duties: This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or

responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

 

Work Environment: This job operates in a preschool program environment. This role routinely uses standard office

equipment.

 

Physical Demands:

 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds consistently throughout the day.
• Ability to physically respond to students requiring behavioral or crisis interventions; within parameters of NYSED, and PBIS.
• Ability to physically assist students requiring direct self-help care.
• Regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to guide, coach and assist students; reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, talk, bend, stretch and run.
• Specific vision is required by this job which includes close vision, distance vision and the ability to adjust focus.
• Noise level in this position may range from low to high.
• May be exposed to various weather conditions.
• May be required to travel to various job sites.
• Exposure or potential exposure to blood, body fluids, spills or splashes from related substances may occur as a condition of employment.
• Appropriately respond to unpredictable individuals and situations