Self-Contained Special Education Teacher

FirstLine Schools•New Orleans, LA

11h

About The Position

FirstLine Schools is currently seeking talented, passionate Special Education Teachers to teach in self-contained setting for students with cognitive needs. At FirstLine Schools, we know that it is the effectiveness of our teachers that matters the most when it comes to impacting the success of our students. To ensure that we are an organization of excellent teachers, we expect our teachers to demonstrate effectiveness through our Vision of Teaching Excellence. Teachers will be responsible for implementing the teaching curriculum, ensuring the success of our students, and working with a team of teachers within the school and network community. Special Education teachers are critical to helping our students who have IEPs meet their learning goals. As a teacher in a specialized program, you will regularly collaborate with a variety of related service providers, leaders, and paraprofessionals to make sure that students' needs are being met in and out of the classroom. Our Special Education teachers must be certified or working towards certification and work to ensure that our students have the necessary skills to meet the mission and vision of our Discovery Plus Program.

Requirements

2 or more years of lead teaching (as the teacher of record) for students with cognitive needs
Demonstrated success working with students in an urban, open admissions schoo
A BA or BS
A strong background in and command of content area
Louisiana Teacher Certification (SPED) Completed or in progress (or be eligible to hold for our out-of-state applicants) in the specific disability/grade levels served, as necessary
Believe deeply in the mission and values of FirstLine Schools and Discovery Plus Program

Nice To Haves

Experience using UNIQUE curriculum preferred

Responsibilities

Designs individualized lessons that lead to LA Connector standards mastery and are aligned to expectations/learning connectors for students with disabilities and end-of-year assessment
Provides feedback to scholars by asking pertinent, scaffolded follow-up questions that affirm correctly understood content, clarify misunderstood content or extend scholars’ thinking
Respond to student data and make adjustments to lessons as needed
Implement assistive technology and other individualized student supports throughout school day
Establishes effective classroom routines and manage students effectively using a variety of strategies to meet the unique needs of students in the Discovery Plus program
Inspires and invests students in achieving their goals and in believing that goals are achieved through effort and not innate abilities
Seeks out and constructively responds to feedback from and engages in problem-solving with others
Ensures compliant IEP documentation for all students on caseload by facilitating IEP development, FBA/BIP development and implementation, transition planning, and maintaining other supporting documentation related to service delivery (logs, progress reports, Extended School Year, etc)
Oversee a team of paraprofessionals and manage schedules to best meet the needs of students
Collaborate closely with related service providers to implement push in and pull out services for students
Attend weekly professional development with other self-contained teachers
Join SELF’s Low-Incidence one-year Cohort
Other duties as assigned