Exceptional Student Education Teacher - Life Skills

As a charter network of 25 schools, the organisation runs campuses in several cities.

Position summary:

We need an Exceptional Student Education Teacher - Life Skills who writes solid, compliant IEPs and can manage a caseload of 15 to 20 students. This is an in-person role at our Braga location.

What you'll be doing:

• Collect progress monitoring data and report progress to families each grading period.
• Develop and follow behaviour intervention plans with the school psychologist or BCBA.
• Direct the daily work of paraprofessionals and one-to-one aides.
• Write, implement and monitor IEPs with measurable annual goals and short-term objectives.
• Communicate regularly with families through logs, calls and meetings.
• Teach functional life skills, communication and social skills in self-contained settings.

Minimum qualifications:

• Clear fingerprint background check.
• Comfortable using data to adjust instruction.
• CPI, Safety-Care or similar crisis training, or willing to complete it in the first month.
• Patience and consistency with students who have significant behavioral needs.
• Experience writing compliant IEPs and progress reports.

Preferred qualifications:

• Dual certification in general education.
• Bilingual special education experience.
• Master's degree in special education.
• AAC device experience.

Pay and benefits:

• Flexible remuneration plan.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Instituto Educacional Braga Lda..