Special Education Teachers
We're hiring! Multiple teaching positions available at multiple grade levels.
By law, teachers must hold a current Colorado Teaching or Special Services license on or before the first day of teaching in a classroom or working with students as a special service provider issued by the Colorado Department of Education (CDE).
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
- Administer formal assessments and analyze/report data in order to support the IEP Team in determination of eligibility of students with disabilities
- Develop and monitor progress of SMART learning goals for each student
- Collect and analyze universal data to determine student growth patterns and support IEP development
Collaboration
- Collaborate with classroom teachers, school psychologists, speech/language pathologists, school social workers 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 instructional levels
- Develop appropriately ambitious trajectories toward grade level 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 the foundations of literacy instruction
- Understand or be willing to learn how math instruction relies on the integration of knowledge to solve problems
- Differentiate instruction for learners with diverse needs
- Demonstrate an understanding of student behavior and classroom management structures
- Participate in ongoing professional development sessions