Special education instructor job description

Facility: Lea County Correctional Facility

Pay: $39,353.60 yr.

Bonus (if applicable):

Shift:

Benefits: Employees working a normal work week (30 hours or more) will enjoy a competitive benefits package for an energized workforce with options for you and your family including:

* Paid time off • Paid holidays • 401(k)
* 401(k) matching • Health Insurance • Dental Insurance
* Vision Insurance • Life Insurance • Flexible spending account
* Health savings account • Tuition Reimbursement • Reduced tuition rates
* Employee discount • Employee assistance program • Pet insurance
* Disability Insurance • Paid training • Other benefits available

Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Job Summary:

Maintains a classroom environment that facilitates the teaching of Adult Basic Education, English Language Development, and Special Education and basic subjects required to pass the GED or equivalent examination. Teaches one or more subjects including, but not limited to reading, mathematics, and language arts.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

* Provides classroom instruction in the areas of basic education subjects including career planning, social adjustment, and general life skills information.
* May instruct conversational English, and ideas and customs in English to students with limited English proficiency.
* Maintains records including testing, daily inmate/detainee work, attendance and general record keeping.
* Evaluates and maintains inmate/detainee academic progress.
* Provides individual tutoring.
* Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

Minimum Requirements

* Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university required.
* Two (2) years of relevant teaching experience preferred.
* Valid teaching certificate from the state Department of Education or comparable authority required.

EPIC Academy is a CPS neighborhood charter high school that opened fall of 2009 in the South Chicago community with the mission to inspire and equip every student to build a path to college and career success. We embrace the challenge of public education - to develop every student's resolve to reach his or her full potential regardless of the odds. EPIC Academy serves one of the most challenged student demographics in Chicago: 96% Free/reduced lunch, 21% Students with IEPs, 15% English Language Learners. The prevailing area expectation is to graduate high school and get a job.

We view these "obstacles" as opportunities to build on our students' assets. EPIC Academy has a shared vision of excellence and high expectations for postsecondary success, embracing a breadth of pathways, both college and career. To achieve these goals we inspire students to imagine their future, provide belief-altering experiences that broaden their vision of what is possible, and build students' academic skill sets to achieve attain their goals. Our results speak for themselves:

• Top 25% CPS HS in SAT growth - out-performing nearly all CPS selective enrollment schools
• Top 25% CPS HS in College Enrollment - out-performing the average college enrollment of other area schools by a wide margin
• 44.9% of EPIC Seniors earn college credit before graduation
• $8.4M in college scholarships from the last graduating class

EPIC Philosophy

We believe post-secondary preparation is the equalizer for life options and long-term happiness. Our students are capable of graduating from their best value higher educational institution. It's our work to ensure that we dare each student to imagine an ambitious future vision, and then we expect and coach the hard work and skills required to realize it.

Classroom Leaders Drive Our Success

A leader leads a group of people to greatness. Our Classroom Leaders are positively contagious. When students talk about why they can't succeed, we show them every reason why they can, transferring belief for students to own their own greatness.

Specialty & Essential Functions:

• Set goals for the individualized education plan that are achievable and comparable to a student's peers in accordance with the State of Illinois IEP guidelines
• Work collaboratively with case managers, counselors, and general education teachers to determine instructional and social needs of students that ensure success while also participating on the multidisciplinary team to promote students' wellbeing
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of content, pedagogy, and student knowledge, in order to select learning objectives and design coherent instruction and assessments
• Create an environment for effective student learning and growth by establishing a respectful classroom culture with a strong management of student behaviors and classroom procedures that promotes and appreciates the cultural, racial, and linguistic diversity of students
• Respond to the needs of all students by designing engaging classroom instruction with appropriately challenging questions communication and discussion techniques, and instructionally aligned assessments
• Exhibit excellent oral and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, and exercise sound, professional judgment especially in interactions with administration, colleagues, families, and students
• Prioritize student safety through consistent implementation of the Student Code of Conduct and school wide systems of management and discipline
• Personalize student learning through mastery and innovative use of curriculum supplements and technology resources, as available
• Advocate for the district's vision and commit to our district's common themes of equity, cultural competence, high expectations, developmental appropriateness, attention to individual students (including those with special needs), appropriate use of technology, and student assumption of responsibility

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher from a regionally accredited institution or higher education
• A valid teaching license issued by the Illinois State Board of Education, endorsed in LBS1
• Leaders who are relentless in teaching, creating buy-in, and setting high expectations for every student.
• Highly organized managers of time that are able to prioritize, focus, and deliver.
• Teammates who make everyone better by going above and beyond for the mission and the team.
• People that get results and are solution-oriented.
• We are flexible on experience and can be flexible on certification in high needs areas (math, science, etc.).

Classroom Leader Responsibilities

• Responsibility #1 - Focus on Skills: We focus on skills first and wrap content around them to drive interest and add rigor. This is SAT Standards for 9-11th and College Study & Writing Skills for 12th.
• Responsibility #2 - High Expectations : Create a learning environment that is safe and exudes high expectations for every student at every moment.
• Responsibility #3 - Just Right Support: Lead a Crew (homeroom) of 20 students where you are the liaison to home, deliver a curriculum for high school success, and meet with students to set goals and review progress towards increasing GPA, academic behaviors, and attendance.
• Responsibility #4 - Be a Great Teammate: Fully invest in our professional development. Make every second count by displaying high levels of attendance, preparation, participation to both the work and all meetings (grade level, co-teaching, and coaching). Deliver and use data and reports to drive improvement.
• Responsibility #5 - Make the Extras Count: Teach a reading intervention class or an elective club class. 12th-grade teachers lead a Senior Seminar class where students practice college study skills.

EPIC Daily Non-Negotiables

1. Know all students' progress toward mastery.
2. Expect college-bound beliefs and behaviors
3. Objective, activities and assessment all aligned at or above the rigor of SAT standard.
4. Live our core values.

Community Academies of New Orleans (“CANO”) is a new charter school management organization created to bring together Esperanza Charter School, Foundation Prep Charter School, and Lafayette Academy Charter School with the ultimate goal of strengthening all three schools. The nonprofit boards that governed Foundation Prep and Choice Foundation voted to establish this partnership in 2019 to benefit from the organizations’ shared values, similar programming, and strong leadership, and set operations of CANO to launch ahead of the 2020-2021 academic year.

CANO’s vision is to build a system of exemplary schools, deeply influenced by our students, families, and communities, with graduates who are committed to being community advocates and leaders. Its mission is to cultivate schools that nurture students’ character and critical thinking ability in responsive learning environments, thereby equipping them to be impactful community leaders. CANO will strive for high academic performance at all our schools while securing partnerships and programming that use community assets to support our schools and students. In doing this, CANO brings a fresh, yet grounded, vision to the New Orleans charter landscape and forges a new path ahead for students, families, and communities alike.

CANO’s Values are:

• INTEGRITY. We always do the right thing.

• TEAMWORK. We work and grow together.

• PASSION. We love our students; our community; our work.

• DIGNITY. We value and respect every member of our community.

• COURAGE. We approach challenges with optimism and confidence.

About the Role

The Special Education Self Contained Teacher collaborates with the Academic Team , as well as with parents and students in order to provide an unparalleled and personalized academic experience. The Special Education Self-Contained Teacher will create a personalized development plan collaboratively with the SpEd Coordinator and Principal and will receive weekly coaching to ensure progress toward personal and professional goals.

About the Opportunity

• Collaborate with the Academic Team to improve lesson plans and instructional materials

• Deliver grade level curriculum identified by Community Academies with fidelity and consult on strengths and challenges of the curriculum

• Assist in the development of the IEP goals and objectives and ensure appropriate implementation of student interventions through collaboration with classroom teachers

• Monitor children’s behavioral patterns and arrange appropriate interventions if needed

• Utilize provided supplemental resources for holistic intervention and enrichment and identify or create additional resources, as necessary

• Conduct assessment which focuses on both long and short-term needs of the student

• Collaborating with parents and school staff to track students’ progress

• Manage classroom crises and resolve conflict

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (required)

• Two years of special education teaching experience

• Valid Louisiana state special education certificate

• Ability to create IEPs

• Fully participate in professional development opportunities on and off property throughout the year.

• Provide and seek feedback from other members of the Academic Team, staff and leadership.

• Good knowledge of current special education topics and methodologies

• A strong desire to work towards equity within education

• Growth mindset and a desire to learn and grow through consistent coaching and feedback

• A patient, resourceful, and resilient personality

• Belief that all students are capable of success and deserve to be pushed to a rigorous academic and behavioral bar

• Willingness to do whatever it takes and go above and beyond to serve all students, faculty, and parents

• Calming Nature

• Highly Intuitive

Physical Demands

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for 75% of the workday while providing instruction.

• Regularly and frequently required to sit, stand, walk, talk, hear, operate a laptop or desktop computer, hand-held learning devices and other office equipment, inside the classroom and school building while monitoring students productivity and behavior on a daily basis.

• Occasionally reach with hands and arms and must lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

• Occasionally ascend and descend stairs to migrate throughout the workspace

More about CANO

CANO Schools offer competitive salaries commensurate with experience and a comprehensive benefits package. Aside from extensive professional development, all of our instructional staff members are equipped with a laptop computer, email, and all necessary supplies. We also require all employees to be fully vaccinated and provide proof of the COVID-19 vaccination within 30days of the date of hire.

EEO Statement

CANO believes in the importance of being a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization that enables our students and staff to thrive. We are committed to building a talented team that reflects the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our students. "We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Community Academies of New Orleans is an EEO employer and prohibits discrimination, harassment or retaliation in accordance with federal, state and local laws."