Middle School Special Education Teacher
Stride
- Indiana
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Ensure all special education and related services are provided as determined by the IEP team by:
- Communicating with parents and applicable related service staff to ensure that students with special needs are receiving the appropriate therapies
- Developing compliant IEP’s, progress reports and other state specific required special education documentation
- Facilitating and leading collaborative special education meetings such as annual IEP meetings
- Using provided resources to ensure accommodations and modifications for students with disabilities such as assistive technology, supplemental curriculum, and accessible text
- Make modifications and accommodations to Stride K12 lessons and assessments as specified by the IEP
- Ensure inclusion and success of student in the general education classroom
- Collect data and work samples to monitor student progress towards Individual Education Program (IEP) goals and objectives
- Document all contact with parents and interventions with students
- Analyze student data to prescribe remediation and enrichment as needed
- Provide rich and engaging synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences for students
- Commitment to personalizing learning for all students
- Demonstrate a belief in all students’ ability to succeed and meet high expectations
- Maintain grade book ensuring student academic integrity, makes student placement and promotion decisions, and alerts administrators to concerns about student performance and progress
- Prepare students for high stakes standardized tests
- Understand that a primary responsibility is to establish and maintain positive rapport with families and regularly communicates with and responds to students and learning coaches/parents in a timely manner
- Support learning coaches/parents with student curricular and instructional issues, as well as basic troubleshooting in a virtual classroom environment that is in line with academy policies and procedures
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time for face-to-face professional development, student testing, and/or as required by the school.
- Bachelor's degree AND
- Active State Special Education teaching license AND
- Six (6) months of student teaching experience AND
- Ability to clear required background check(s)
- Ability to work collaboratively with other teachers to interpret and produce numeric, tabular, and graphic representations of student data, and use it to drive instructional decisions
- Receptive to receiving coaching on a regular basis with administrators
- Ability to embrace change and adapt to ensure excellent student outcomes
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word; PowerPoint
- Ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new technologies and teaching platforms
- Strong written/verbal communication skills
- Experience working with the proposed age group
- Experience supporting adults and children in the use of technology
- Experience teaching online (virtual) and/or in a brick-and-mortar environment
- Experience with online learning platform
- This position is virtual