SPED Teacher

Title 

Special Education Teacher

Job Summary 

As a Special Education (SPED) Teacher, you will work with students with a wide range of learning, mental, emotional, and physical disabilities. Your goal will be to help your students overcome learning barriers and maximize their ability to learn and thrive in school. The level of intervention they require will be determined on a case-by-case basis, according to the parameters outlined in their individual education plans (IEP) or 504 plans. Your students will vary in age from grades K-12, depending on the school to which you will be assigned within the district. Their challenges may range from mild to moderate to severe. Your students may vary from those with sensory disabilities, such as visual or hearing impairments, to students on the autism spectrum or those with serious cognitive delays. You may be assigned to work one-on-one with students in a mainstream classroom setting, where you would be partnered with general education teachers to adapt lessons so that the students with disabilities can more easily understand. You may also be teaching in a self-contained SPED classroom where you would plan, adapt, and present lessons to meet your students’ unique needs. You will regularly collaborate with other school-based behavioral health professionals, counselors, therapists, and paraprofessionals. You will also perform student evaluations, document student interventions and progress, and record your observations.

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Assists in the identification of student’s individual needs through assessment

• Provides direct instruction to special education students, as designated in the individualized education plans (IEP) or 504 plans

• Evaluates student progress, maintains necessary records indicating student performance and attendance, and recommends revisions of the IEP when appropriate. This includes grades, progress reports, and benchmark documentation of goals and objectives cited in students’ individualized plan

• Coordinate and consult with administrators, special education specialists, general education classroom teachers, psychologists, program specialist, other support staff, and parents regarding instructional planning for special education students

• Assists with coordination of services provided by other support personnel

• Establishes and maintains standards of student behavior through proper control and supervision and the provision of learning activities which stimulate the interest of the student

• Deliver hands-on and supervised toileting and diapering assistance to students while maintaining dignity, privacy, and full compliance with internal policies

• Responds to medical emergencies and student and classroom cleanliness issues

• Monitors student conduct and ensures student safety

Requirements

• Must be able to occasionally lift and/or carry up to 50 pounds

• Must be able to provide life-saving interventions if needed. This includes the ability to perform at least 5 sets of hands only CPR for roughly 2 minutes