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
Assessment
- 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
Collaboration
- Supervise, schedule and monitor paraprofessionals
- Collaborate with classroom teachers, school psychologists, speech/language pathologists, school
and other special education service providers to develop integrated plans for students with disabilities * Collaborate with families to ensure students? strengths, needs, services and progress are regularly communicated
Compliance
- Implement IDEA and ECEA regulations
- Develop and implement legally compliant, instructionally sound IEPs
- Ensure IEP implementation across settings
- Abide by all district/policies/procedures
Instruction
- 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
EDUCATION AND RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor's degree or higher.
- Must be a minimum of 18 years old.
LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS or CERTIFICATIONS:
- Criminal background check required for hire.
- Must possess the required license and endorsement for the position, or be able to obtain, or be in process with, the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) for a valid Colorado Educator License within 30 days of hire.
Preference given to candidates with ELL Training and/or an ESL or (LDE) Linguistically Diverse Education Endorsement.
SALARY INFORMATION (FOR EXTERNAL CANDIDATES):
All salary placement on our is dependent on the employees? education and/or work experience. Certified/licensed employees will be granted one (1) year for each full year of contractual and/or work experience up to a maximum of ten (10) years, which includes in-district and out-of-district contractual teaching and/or work experience. Responsibility for verification of outside experience shall rest with the individual employee. For further explanation of salary placement please refer to our that can be found on our district website.
BENEFITS INFORMATION:
Adams 12 Five Star Schools is committed to providing an environment that promotes a healthy employee population able to serve our students at the highest level. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision and life insurance as well as other programs for benefit eligible employees. The employee assistance program, voluntary life insurance through PERA, and 401(k), 403(b) & 457(b) plans are available to all employees regardless of hours worked and are available immediately (upon hire date).
To learn more about our benefits including paid time off, please see our .
THIS POSTING IS NOT INCLUSIVE OF THE JOB DESCRIPTION.
Rev 6/23
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Location: Thornton, CO
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