K-8 SPED Teacher

Position Responsibilities:

• Designs lessons that lead to standards mastery and are aligned to grade level expectations/learning connectors for students with disabilities and end-of-year assessments
• Provides feedback to scholars by asking pertinent, scaffolded follow-up questions that affirm correctly understood content, clarify misunderstood content or extend scholars’ thinking
• Establishes effective classroom routines and manages students effectively without disruptions (redirects inappropriate behavior)
• Inspires and invests students in achieving their goals and in believing that goals are achieved through effort and not innate abilities
• Prepares scholars to solve complex problems with no obvious answer
• Seeks out and constructively responds to feedback from and engages in problem-solving with others
• Provides IEP minutes
• Ensures compliant IEP documentation for all students on caseload by facilitating IEP development, FBA/BIPs development and implementation, transition planning, and maintaining other supporting documentation related to service delivery (logs, progress reports, Extended School Year, etc)

Requirements

Education & Experience:

• 2 or more years of lead teaching (as the teacher of record)
• Demonstrated success working with students in an urban, open admissions school
• 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 - FirstLine will cover certification costs if you are not already certified

Desired Qualities & Characteristics:

• Believe in every student’s ability to achieve in a rigorous college or career prep curriculum
• Achieve results based on agreed-upon expectations
• Take personal responsibility
• Highly detail-oriented
• Collaborate effectively with a range of stakeholders
• Share a commitment to creating great schools in New Orleans
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Model the FirstLine values of Service, Learning, Collaboration and Results

Physical Requirements:

 Must be able to perform all required job functions with reasonable accommodations, if necessary. 

SPED TEACHER reports to: SPED Coordinator