Job Description:
Special Education Teacher - Mild/Moderate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION:
Provides a functional educational program for students needing a sheltered environment for more than 1/2 a school day, encompassing basic learning skills, basic subject skills, social competencies, and emotional security and independence.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RE SPONSIBILITIES:
1. Teaches special day students in a sheltered setting with emphasis on basic academic subjects, with attention to the student's social, emotional, physical, and intellectual needs.
2. Provides ongoing program of instruction in those skills necessary for successful emlployment.
3. Directs and evaluates special day students in work experience and vocational education programs in cooperation with other staff members.
4. Develops individualized and small group counseling on educational and personal problems which relate to the student's total grtowth and developent.
5. Confers fredquently with parents and professional staff members on each student's progress.
6. Assista other professional staff members in the diagnosis of learning disorders, developent of planned remediations, and evaluation of student progress.
7. Provides appropriate physical and psychological environment to establish and reinforce acceptable student behavior, attitudes, and social skills and self-image.
8. Arranges with staff for integration of students into regular classes for instruction in areas where students can meet success.
9. Serves as a member of the committee for admission, placement, and evaluation of students in special day classes.
OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Helps parents to understand the problem of learning handicapped students and to gain an acceptance of this fact.
2. Provides continual supervision on an "on call" basis for students assigned to his/her group as problem situations arise elsewhere in the school.
3. Performs all other functions performed by regular classroom teacher.
SUPERVISOR:
Under the immediate supervision of the site level administrator.
