Primary Purpose: Provide special education students with learning activities and experiences designed to help them fulfill their potential for intellectual, emotional, physical, and social growth. Developing or modifying curriculum, prepare lessons and other instructional student materials. Instructing, supporting and assisting students with their instructional needs, work-based learning experiences and job development within the community. Lead and assist in the implementation of classroom programs, including daily living skills, social skills, functional academics, and behavioral management.
Qualifications: Education/Certification:
- Bachelor’s degree from accredited university
- Valid Texas Teaching Certificate (must have Special Education Teaching Certification)
- Valid Texas driver’s license
Special Knowledge/Skills:
- Ability to work with young adults with disabilities
- Knowledge pertaining to job training and development
- Ability to exercise judgment in handling student behaviors and in assessing student skill level
- Ability to follow verbal and written instructions
- Ability to communicate effectively
- Knowledge of general office equipment
- Must have personal transportation
- Must demonstrate the belief that all students can work
- Knowledge of Admission, Review, and Dismissal (ARD) Committee process and Individual Education Plan (IEP) goal setting process and implementation
Major Responsibilities and Duties: Instructional
- Provide instruction for students in a work-based learning environment.
- Provide instruction in the classroom with small groups.
- Collaborate with students, parents, and other members of staff to develop IEP through the ARD Committee process for each student assigned.
- Develop and implement an instructional, therapeutic, or skill development program for assigned students and show written evidence of preparation as required.
- Plan and use appropriate instructional and learning strategies, activities, materials, and equipment that reflect understanding of the learning styles and needs of students assigned.
- Participate in ARD Committee meetings on a regular basis.
- Conduct assessment of student learning styles and use results to plan for instructional activities.
- Present subject matter according to guidelines established by IEP.
- Employ a variety of instructional techniques and media to meet the needs and capabilities of each student assigned.
- Plan and supervise assignments for job coaches within the program.
- Use technology in teaching/learning process.
- Assist in matching student to appropriate jobs, and develop job leads.
Student Management
- Assist students with physical disabilities according to their needs, including transferring to and from wheelchairs, lifting, or positioning.
- Assist students with physical needs and personal care, including feeding, bathroom needs, and personal hygiene.
- Help manage behavior of students. This includes intervening in crisis situations to de-escalate disruptive or dangerous student behavior as needed.
- Assume responsibility for learning and adapting to each student’s special medical, physical, communicative, and emotional needs.
- Work with individual students or small groups to develop motor skills and conduct instructional exercises.
- Supervise students (in district and in the community)
- Conduct ongoing assessments of student progress through formal and informal testing.
- Provide or supervise personal care, medical care, and feeding of students as stated in IEP.
- Be a positive role model for students.
Communication
- Establish and maintain open communication by conducting conferences with parents, students, agencies and organizations (with parent consent), job coaches, and teachers.
- Maintain a professional relationship with colleagues, students, parents, and community members.
- Use effective communication skills to present information accurately and clearly.
Other
- Maintain confidentiality.
- Operate a district vehicle on an assigned route for transporting students/employees to work based learning sites as well as related activities, in a safe, timely manner.
- Obtain a CDL, Commercial Driver’s License, during the 2020-2021 school year to transport students in and around the community. (Training for the CDL will be provided.)
- Participate in staff development training programs, faculty meetings, and special events as assigned.
- Other duties as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities: Supervise Job Coaches within the 18+ Transition Program
Equipment Used:
To include things such as a wheelchair lift, ramp, computer, copier, and audiovisual equipment.
Working Conditions:
Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors:
Maintain emotional control under stress. Traveling extensively during school hours with students to local business. Frequent standing, stooping, bending, kneeling, pushing, and pulling. May be required to lift and position students with physical disabilities; control behavior through physical restraint; and assist non-ambulatory students. Exposure to biological hazards.