QUALIFICATIONS:
- Kansas teaching license
- General knowledge of curriculum & instruction
- Ability to instruct students & manage behavior
- Organizational, communication & interpersonal skills
CERTIFICATE/LICENSE REQUIREMENTS:
Kansas Teaching License
REPORTS TO:
District Administrators
Director of Special Education and/or Designee at NKESC
Executive Director at NKESC
JOB GOAL:
Provide students with appropriate learning activities and experiences designed to help them fulfill their potential for intellectual, emotional, physical, and social growth. Enable students to develop competencies and skills to function successfully in society.
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assume responsibilities and duties assigned to the classroom teacher.
- Implement lesson plans that reflect accommodations for differences in student learning styles, use appropriate instructional strategies and materials.
- Work cooperatively with special education teachers to modify curriculum as needed for special education students according to guidelines established in Individual Education Plans (IEP).
- Plan and supervise assignments of paraeducators when necessary.
- Be a positive role model for students, support the mission of the school district.
- Create a classroom environment conducive to learning and appropriate for physical, social and emotional development of students.
- Establish and maintain open communication and professional relationships with parents, students, principals, and teachers.
- Use effective communication skills to present information accurately and clearly.
- Keep informed of and comply with state, district, and school regulations and policies for classroom teachers.
- Compile, maintain, and file all reports, records, and other documents required.
- Maintain confidentiality regarding students and staff personnel information.
- Perform other duties as may be assigned.
PHYSICAL ABILITIES:
- Exhibit manual dexterity to use a telephone, to enter data into a computer, to see and read a computer screen and printed materials with or without vision aids; hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors and on the telephone; speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors and on the telephone; and physical agility to reach overhead.
- Ability to move between schools, school buildings and multiple rooms.
- Ability to interact with students that meet their physical, emotional and psychological needs.