Position Areas
Special Education
Description
Greenwich Public Schools seeks a full-time preschool teacher.
The purpose of this position is to provide academic, social, and emotional instruction aimed toward the development of the whole child.
Essential Functions
- Creates and implements Tier I, II, and III interventions for general and special education students
- Plans and participates in in planning placement team (PPT) meetings to develop and implement IEPs
- Manages professional assistants, including schedule creation and modeling instruction
- Collaborates with various grade level, professional learning, and data teams
- Manages behaviors using the Positive Behavior Intervention Support model (PBIS)
- Creates materials and differentiated lessons for a variety of learners through content, process, and product
- Communicates effectively and regularly with parents by means of newsletters, notes, conferences, and other two-way forms of communication
- Follows legal procedures regarding bullying and mandated reporting
- Maintains accurate, complete, and correct records as required by law, district policy, and federal and state requirements
- Plans and facilitates personalized learning opportunities that provide students with choice in pace, content, and process based on individual strengths, needs, goals, and cultural backgrounds
- Plans daily lessons and assessments that are aligned with unit goals, objectives, and standards pertaining to the CT Early Learning and Development Standards (ELDS)
- Oversees and plans for direct teaching
- Completes educational evaluations, including using the CT Documentation & Observation for Teaching System (DOTS)
- Analyzes data from early childhood assessments
Qualifications Profile
- CT State Certification, or certifiability, in Integrated Early Childhood/Special Education, Birth-K (#112), or Integrated Early Childhood/Elementary Education N-3 and Special Education N-K (#113), or other certification permitting pre-school special education teaching, required
- 3 or more years of teaching experience preferred