Social Studies Teacher

Social Studies Teacher

Provides academic instruction in Social Studies to students placed in the Education department across a wide range of grade and educational levels from lower elementary through high school.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Observe youth's behavior and maintains awareness of the youth's emotional and physical needs.
• Particular attention to depression, suicide ideation, and aggressive tendencies towards others.
• Teach Social Studies to group participants, defines level of participation expected, outcomes, and other related information. Explains and enforces rules, conduct and boundaries, and explores activity benefits.
• Plan and implement daily lesson plans in accordance with educational curriculum. Develop an individualized instructional plan for each student with daily, weekly and quarterly objectives.
• Evaluate student work and academic progress. Assess student abilities, conducts proficiency tests, records grades and student's academic achievement as well as providing reports on behavior and treatment progress.
• Possess the ability to engage students in a secure environment. Monitor and maintain appropriate care and control over tools, equipment, and supplies.
• Provide direction to youth in establishing individual goals. Monitor youth progress, address academic and/or behavioral difficulties, and oversee program implementation and completion.
• Attend various facility events and activities. Meet with individual students in the living unit to assist in schoolwork as needed. Participate in various groups, committees and treatment teams to improve the overall program.

Equipment Operated: Computer; electronic whiteboard; television; digital projector; copier, fax machine, security radio; telephone; other general classroom and office equipment.

Contacts with Others: Administrators; Unit Counselors; Program Coordinator(s); Doctors; Nurses; Attorneys; Counselors; Principals; Psychiatrists; Psychologists; Sociologists; law enforcement officers.

Confidential Data: Educational records, medical records, psychological records, legal records, and personal logs.

Working Conditions: Individual classroom setting within a secure correctional treatment environment; exposure to potentially violent youth; possible exposure to contagious diseases, head lice, and blood-borne pathogens.

Usual Physical Demands: While performing duties of this job, the employee normally must be able to walk through the facility, perform physical labor, and may occasionally have to physically control persons of varying weights and strengths. The employee commonly uses usual vision demands and must normally be able to converse verbally with the youth, visitors, family members, general public and others, and to hear.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• 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; student motivation and behavior management; 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; 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 role model; develop and maintain effective working relationships with associates, youth, family members, visitors; maintain confidentiality of sensitive subject matter; exhibit creative thinking; 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; operation of computer and computer software.

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Education or related field required; experience working with youth at risk of school failure preferred. State of Ohio 4-Year Resident Educator or 5-Year Professional Adolescent- Young Adult license (Grades 7-12) in Integrated Social Studies is preferred. Ability to obtain an Alternative Teaching License in Social Studies required. 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. Must successfully pass background check and drug screen.

Licensure or Certification Requirements: State Motor Vehicle Operator's License; First Aid and CPR certification, Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) (May be obtained after appointment)