Special Education Lead Teacher

Job Summary:

The Special Education Teacher is responsible for teaching subjects to educationally and physically impaired students.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Provides direct and indirect instruction of students in and outside of the classroom.
• Modify the general education curriculum for students with disabilities based upon a variety of instructional techniques and technologies.
• Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
• Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining an environment conducive to learning for all students.
• Meet with parents to discuss their children's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their individualized educational needs.
• Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, and other professionals to develop individualized education programs (IEPs) designed to promote students' educational, physical, and social/emotional development.
• Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and communicate those objectives to students.
• Develop plans for effective communication, monitoring, and follow-up of students in inclusive classroom settings.
• Provide crisis intervention, as needed, for students and those in inclusive classrooms.
• Other duties as assigned.

Neighborhood Charter Network Values:

Lead With Love

• Establish High Expectations
• Support and Empower Others
• Engage in honest communication to enhance understanding

Maximize Time To Maximize Potential

• Maintain productivity every hour of the day

Quality Matters

• Only spend time on what is worth our time
• Data Drives Decisions
• We do not have time to guess

Competencies for All NCN Employees:

Humble

• Emphasizing the team over self; being willing to take and implement feedback in order to grow

Hungry

• Self-motivated; having the grit to push through adversity

Smart

• High emotional intelligence; the ability to work well with others; an understanding of one’s own impact

This job description is not intended to be all inclusive. The employee will perform other reasonably related tasks as assigned by the supervisor or other management personnel.

Management reserves the right to change job responsibilities, duties and hours accordingly. This document is for management communication only and is not intended to imply a written or implied contract of employment.

Neighborhood Charter Network provides equal opportunities of employment to all applicants and and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type against anyone without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.