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Special Education Teacher

The Special Education Teacher is a state-certified educator who provides daily instruction and support in the virtual academic environment. This role involves creating strategies to engage and facilitate student learning, serving as a case manager and point of contact for students and parents, and monitoring academic progress to help prioritize student learning objectives.

Essential functions include initiating, developing, and facilitating IEP and eligibility consideration meetings, collaborating with instructional teachers to review student academic data, tracking and communicating all IEP service changes, serving as a point of contact regarding academic needs, accommodations, and IEP services for families and teachers, providing special education documents to parent/guardian and required team members, administering assessments to monitor student progress, monitoring student engagement and attendance data, inputting testing accommodations into the school database, verifying student class schedules for alignment with IEP services, documenting communication with families, maintaining lesson plans, artifacts, and materials used to facilitate student instruction, complying with all written policies and procedures, establishing a virtual classroom environment conducive to learning, implementing all IEP services and accommodations within classroom and testing environments with fidelity, utilizing research-based strategies and differentiation to engage and nurture student learning and student relationships, completing all case management and instructional duties as assigned throughout the school year, maintaining special education records compliance, and passing required background checks.

This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate adaptability/flexibility, integrity/ethics, and teamwork. Desired qualifications include virtual education experience, special education teacher experience, familiarity with online platforms, and knowledge of principles, theories, practices, methods, and techniques used in special education instruction.

Minimum required qualifications include a Bachelor Degree(s) in Special Education or related field and 1 year of experience as a special education teacher, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Other required qualifications include Microsoft Office/Google Suite proficiency, web proficiency, ability to pass required background checks, and ability to travel up to 10% of the time within and between assigned geographic areas to support students.

Certificates and licenses required include Elementary Special Education Teacher, P-5 4-8 Special Education Teacher, Middle School Special Education Teacher, and High School Special Education Teacher certifications.

The work environment is a home-based position with the ability to travel by vehicle to state testing and professional development sites and minor lifting/carrying of academic materials.

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