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Woodward Academy is looking to hire a Secondary Special Education Teacher.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide a learning environment to motivate youth to take responsibility for their education.
- Prepare daily lesson plans and instruct groups, providing in-depth attention to students as necessary.
- Assess each student’s learning style; design and implement curriculum, instructional strategies, and materials appropriate for the youth.
- Communicate, orally and in writing, all appropriate information, both within the classroom and outside the classroom (in the log and in youth charts) and to relevant outside agencies.
- Stimulate interest and cooperation in individual and group classes and activities and observe youth behavior in response to treatment efforts.
- Ensure the attendance of students in all classes and other activities and check on normative behavior.
- Complete all necessary paperwork to ensure proper recording of student progress, including daily attendance records and progress reports for grading periods and Individual Education Plans.
- Maintain order in the classroom by providing classroom expectations to students.
- Maintain emergency lesson plans for use by substitutes.
- Maintain proper norms and security of youth and provide crisis intervention as necessary.
- Supervise youth in order to observe or effect changes in their social behavior, and to maintain the security of facility and grounds for community protection.
- Participate in the treatment of the student through observation, interaction, scoring, limit setting, and implementation of treatment plans; assist in the development of positive peer culture.
- Report significant changes in social behavior and make recommendations for changes by participating in Treatment Team meetings.
- Escort students to work, mealtime, recreation, education activities, and participate in their supervision and instruction.
- Limited one-to-one counseling.
- Give basic instruction in work, recreation, and housekeeping activities.
- Abide by The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (42 USC & 201 et seq.).
- All other duties as assigned.
Standards of Performance:
- Job Knowledge/Skills.
- Productivity.
- Dependability.
- Interpersonal Relationships.
- Initiative.
- Time Management.
- Problem Solving/Decision Making.
- Self Development.
Horizontal and Outside Relationships:
- Youth.
- All Facility Staff.
- Court and referring agency staff.
- Student’s family.
Education and Experience:
- All General Education Teachers must be certified by the State Board of Education.
- One year of previous work/volunteer experience with kids under the age of 21.
- It is an essential function of the job that staff is capable of participating in physical training activities and be capable of physically restraining the students if and when necessary.
