Immediately Need Teacher - Elementary Affective Needs (Temporary) in Thornton, CO
Job title: Teacher - Elementary Affective Needs (Temporary)
Company: Adams County School District 12
Job description: Adams 12 Five Star Schools is deeply committed to a community of excellence, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. We commit to eliminate the predictability of who is included in excellence and who is not. Adams 12 Five Star Schools puts students first and supports our district's mission to elevate student success for every student every day in every classroom. Candidates who can contribute to our goal are encouraged to apply and to identify their strengths in this area.
SUMMARY: Elementary Affective Needs Teachers provide academic and social/emotional instruction to students with disabilities in center-based K-5 specialized programs and demonstrate competencies in advocacy, assessment, collaboration and compliance.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Advocacy
- Advocate for students with disabilities to ensure access to learning opportunities and equity in discipline processes
- Model and promote inclusive language
- Assess and determine eligibility of students with disabilities
- Develop and monitor progress of SMART learning goals for each student
- Conduct Functional Behavior Assessments and develop and monitor Behavior Intervention Plans
- Develop and monitor incentive plans, point sheets, data collection systems
- Supervise, schedule and monitor paraprofessionals
- Collaborate with classroom teachers, school psychologists, speech/language pathologists, school
- Implement IDEA and ECEA regulations
- Develop and implement legally compliant, instructionally sound IEPs
- Ensure IEP implementation across settings
- Abide by all district/policies/procedures
- Identify students? current social-emotional instructional levels
- Implement AN Quality Indicators and the AN Rubric
- Develop appropriately ambitious trajectories toward CASEL standards
- Plan lessons incorporating evidence-based practices and identify resources for instruction
- Implement specially-designed instruction in a continuum of special education/general educational environments
- Understand or be willing to learn to how to plan and implement social-emotional learning for students with disabilities
- Differentiate instruction for learners with diverse needs
- Demonstrate and model an understanding of student behavior and classroom management structures
- Participate in ongoing professional development sessions