Special Education Secondary Grades 9-12 Teacher

Special Education Teacher

The Special Education Teacher is a state-certified educator who provides daily instruction and support in the virtual academic environment. The special education teacher creates strategies to engage and facilitate student learning, serves as a case manager and point of contact for students and parents, and monitors academic progress to help prioritize student learning objectives.

Essential functions include initiating, developing, and facilitating IEP and eligibility consideration meetings, collaborating with instructional teachers to review student academic data, tracking and communicating all IEP service changes, serving as a point of contact regarding academic needs, accommodations, and IEP services for families and teachers, receiving progress reports and information from related services providers, providing special education documents to parent/guardian and required team members prior to and following meetings, administering assessments to monitor student progress, monitoring student engagement and attendance data, inputting testing accommodations into school database after each IEP meeting, verifying accommodations prior to state testing, collaborating with school counselor to verify student class schedules for alignment with IEP services and FTE reporting, documenting communication with families via contact logs in Infinite Campus, maintaining lesson plans, artifacts, and materials used to facilitate student instruction, complying with all written policies and procedures in teacher, district, and school-based handbooks, establishing a virtual classroom environment conducive to learning, implementing all IEP services and accommodations within classroom and testing environments with fidelity, utilizing research-based strategies and differentiation to engage and nurture student learning and student relationships based on individual strengths and needs, completing all case management and instructional duties as assigned throughout the school year, maintaining special education records compliance, to include timelines, reporting, and open records requests as outlined by IDEA and the GADOE.

This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate adaptability/flexibility, integrity/ethics, and teamwork.

Desired qualifications include virtual education experience, special education teacher experience, familiarity with Zoom, Jigsaw, Canvas, Clever, or other online platforms, experience supporting adults and children in the use of technology, and knowledge of principles, theories, practices, methods, and techniques used in special education instruction.

Minimum required qualifications include a Bachelor Degree(s) in Special Education or related field and 1 year of experience as a special education teacher, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Strong data-collection, differentiation, and specialized instructional strategy skills are also required, along with the ability to adapt learning plans to meet various needs and learning styles, create an engaging class culture, manage the classroom environment, communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, possess strong time-management, organizational, and decision-making skills, understand the GADOE Implementation Manual guidelines for Special Education, and ability to write IEP's and Special Education Eligibility reports. Ability to learn new technology tools quickly is also necessary.

Other required qualifications include proficiency in Microsoft Office/Google Suite, web proficiency, ability to pass required background check, ability to travel up to 10% of the time within and between assigned geographic areas to support students, attend regularly scheduled meetings and participate in school activities, open houses, outings, and orientations.

Certificates and licenses required include Elementary Special Education Teacher: Minimum of SRT4 Certification in General Curriculum Special Education AND the Special Education Academic Content Areas (Math Science, Social Studies, Reading and English) P-5 4-8 Special Education Teacher Minimum of SRT4 Certification in General Curriculum Special Education and ALL of the Special Education Academic Content Areas 4-8 (Math, Science, Social Studies, Reading and English) required; Or, passed the GACE Program Admissions Assessment or have exemption eligibility (ACT/SAT scores) AND passed the GACE in General Curriculum Special Education and ALL of the Special Education Academic Content Areas 4-8 Middle School Special Education Teacher: Minimum of SRT4 Certification in General Curriculum Special Education and ALL of the Special Education Academic Content Areas 4-8 or 6-12 (Math, Science, Social Studies, Reading and English) required; Or, passed the GACE Program Admissions Assessment or have exemption eligibility (ACT/SAT scores) AND passed the GACE in General Curriculum Special Education and ALL of the Special Education Academic Content Areas 4-8 or 6-12 High School Special Education Teacher: Minimum of SRT4 Certification in Special Education General Curriculum Consultative (P-12) and the (6-12) English, or Math, or Science, or Social Science core academic content; OR Passed the GACE Program Admissions Assessment or have exemption eligibility (ACT/SAT scores) AND passed the GACE in Special Education General Curriculum Consultative (P-12) and have passed the core academic content test (6-12), AND GACE Educator Ethics Program Entry.

The work environment is a home-based position with ability to travel by vehicle to state testing and professional development sites, minor lifting/carrying of academic materials.