Must hold a license issued by Utah State Office of Education.
Description
Summit Academy Special Education SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER – FULL TIME
Overview *Full time with benefits (Health, URS, PTO) * Competitive Salary * Multiple locations * Signing bonus
Position Summary: The role of the Special Education Teacher is to provide students with differentiated instruction to meet their individual needs and monitor student progress. This position requires experience working with children with a wide variety of needs and capabilities. The special education teacher has the ability to work with the student’s entire educational support team which can include coordinating with internal and external resource teachers, related service providers as well as the student’s families
Planning and Preparation * Learns the curriculum in its entirety for assigned grade levels * Demonstrates knowledge of the Utah Core standards and how it aligns with the curriculum * Understands overall diversity of assigned families and individual characteristics of students/parents; specifically, how this impacts support needed
Instruction and Student Achievement * Provides Specially Designed Instruction * Maintains regular contact with students and families via telephone, email, and instructional sessions * Differentiates instruction and provides support that leads to student achievement * Tracks students’ progress, achievement and attendance * Evaluates accurate and valid measures on student learning and meeting IEP goals and objectives * Prepares students for state required testing * Collaborates in the implementation of IEP’s and attend IEP meetings as required * Maintains compliance of all documents * Completes Quarterly Progress Reports for students on caseload * Supervises and guides Paraeducators