Job Description:
v Job Duties
· Maintain accurate and complete student records, and prepare reports on students and activities, as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
· Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification and positive reinforcement.
· Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.
· Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, and professionals to develop individual educational plans designed to promote students' educational, physical, and social development.
· Employ special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory.
· Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
· Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to students.
· Develop and implement strategies to meet the needs of students with a variety of special education conditions.
· Modify the general education curriculum for special-needs students, based upon a variety of instructional techniques and technologies.
· Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
· Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators in order to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.
· Guide and counsel students with adjustment and/or academic problems, or special academic interests.
· Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
· Monitor teachers and instructional assistants to ensure that they adhere to inclusive special education program requirements.
· Prepare, administer, and grade tests and assignments to evaluate students' programs.
· Meet with parents and guardians to provide guidance in using community resources, and to teach skills for dealing with students' impairments.
· Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.
· Successfully administer standardized ability and achievement tests.
· Attend IEP meetings, professional meetings, staff meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
· Utilizes multi-sensory activities including audio/visual and computer presentations, outside and change of location activities, visuals, and graphics
· Duties may include campus duties such as drop off/pick up supervision, playground/recess duty and other duties as assigned by Principal/Supervisor.
· Must be able to successfully implement and operate technological tools and devices
v Qualifications
· Bachelor’s Degree
· Valid Arizona Special Education Certification
· Current IVP Fingerprint clearance card required