Easter Seals Jobs

Primary Purpose:

• Provide students with appropriate learning activities and experiences designed to help them fulfill their potential for intellectual, emotional, physical, and social growth.

  Qualifications (Experience/Education/Certification):

• Bachelors degree and valid Texas teaching certificate.

  Major Responsibilities:

  Instructional Strategies:

• Plan, develop and implement lesson plans that fulfill the requirements of the districts instructional program and show written evidence of preparations as required

• Prepare lessons that reflect accommodations for differences in student abilities and learning styles

• Linguistically accommodate instruction as appropriate for English language learners

• Coordinate with special education teachers to modify curricula as needed for special education students according to guidelines established in Individual Education Plans (IEP).

Student Growth and Development:

• Help students analyze and improve study methods and habits
• Help improve the achievement of all students
• Conduct ongoing assessment of student achievement through formal and informal testing and provide remediation as appropriate to ensure student mastery
• Assume responsibility and sponsor extracurricular activities as appropriate.

Classroom Management and Organization:

• Create a classroom environment conducive to active and successful student learning and appropriate for the physical, social, and emotional development of students
• Manage student behavior.

Communication:

• Establish and maintain effective open communication with students, parents, teachers, and administrators
• Participate in staff professional development activities.

Professional Growth and Development:

• Participate in staff development activities to improve job-related skills
• Comply with state, district, and school regulations and policies for classroom teachers
• Attend and participate in faculty meetings and serve on staff committees as required.

Perform other duties as assigned.

• Conserve electricity as outlined in the districts energy management plan.

  Special Knowledge/Skills:

• Knowledge of all applicable federal, state, and local laws, guidelines and procedures.

• Knowledge of curriculum and instruction.

• Knowledge of subjects assigned, including current research.

• Skill in effectively managing a classroom and student behavior.

• Skill in communicating effectively with others.

• Skill in modifying instruction for various student needs.

• Skill in working with various forms of equipment including, but not limited to, personal computers, calculators, projectors, and printers.

• Skill in working with computer tools, including but not limited to, email, Internet, word processing and spreadsheets.

• Skill in working in collaborative team-based environments.

Working Conditions (Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Demands):

• Maintain emotional control under stress
• Must be able to lift and/or carry at least 30 lbs.