Immediately Need Special Education Teacher URGENT in Montclair, CA
Job title: Special Education Teacher URGENT
Company: GPAC
Job description: gpac has partnered with a wonderful non profit charter school seeking a Special Education Teacher
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Academics and School Culture
- Provide individualized instruction and support to students with identified special needs that impede their ability to learn in a conventional learning environment.
- Develop Individualized Educational Plans (IEPs), following statutory/regulatory requirements and the guidelines set forth by RJA, for the purpose of meeting the individual needs of identified. Students.
- Monitors data and student progress toward goals outlined in the IEP, facilitating adjustments when necessary.
- Analyze assessment results to inform instruction and IEP development.
- Consult/collaborate with staff, parents, and outside agencies for the purpose of ensuring appropriate delivery of services and adherence to due process.
- Provide consultation, resource information, and material regarding individuals with exceptional needs to parents and general education teachers.
- Provide direct consultation to general education teachers regarding specific accommodations outlined in IEPs.
- Ensure that each general education teacher has a full understanding of their role and responsibilities to successfully carry-out the requirements outlined in each individual IEP, including providing a summary of each IEP to general education teachers of students on an active IEP.
- Schedule and facilitate IEP Team Meetings, ensuring the process complies with statutory/regularity requirements and RJA guidelines.
- Teach students for the purpose of ensuring successful progress towards student's goals and objectives, as outlined in the student?s IEP.
- Provides co-teaching and instructional support in the general education environment, as outlined in each student?s IEP.
- Provides individual and small group direct instruction inside and outside of the general education environment, as outlined in each student?s IEP.
- Coordinate services to ensure an effective and cohesive program of teaching and learning is being provided to each student on the SPED teacher?s caseload.
- Maintain and apply knowledge of current Special Education law/regulations/RJA policy.
- Maintain and apply identified best practices to support student learning.
- Have the knowledge and skills to provide effective instruction and supports in areas identified as specific student disabilities.
- Effective utilize the online database Special Education Information System (SEIS)
- Maintain appropriate student record, as required by statute/regulation/RJA policy and procedures.
- Prepare reports for the school, RJA, county, state, or federal agencies, as requested.
- Other appropriate responsibilities as assigned.
- Demonstrated success teaching students from educationally underserved areas.
- Excellent organizational, planning, and implementation skills.
- Work with core curriculum and know where and how to access core curriculum content material.
- Coordinate curricular areas to help establish an integrated program for each student.
- Work on a daily basis with teachers to develop and maintain teaming/ communication.
- Use effective and appropriate communication techniques with students, parents, staff, agencies and community members.
- Work with students with exceptional needs.
- Modify core cur