Certified Teacher
Job Description
Job Description
Summary:
The Teacher will create an effective, stimulating learning environment, encouraging each consumer to recognize his/her unique abilities and to develop a positive relationship with learning. The Teacher will team with other staff to promote self-esteem, provide mental health interventions & crisis prevention and intervention, based on SEIC’s relationship-based philosophy of care.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Creates an organized, stimulating classroom environment conducive to the development of self-esteem and academic progress for each student.
• Develops positive therapeutic relationships with consumers, engaging them in the learning process, helping them to develop self- management & social skills, & preparing them for success in a community school setting.
• Creates daily, weekly, and long-range individual plans for instruction. These plans will be designed to effectively meet the individualized academic and behavioral needs of consumers. They will be primarily project-based, technology based and focused on encouraging special needs students to recognize their unique talents. The Teacher must also maintain emergency lesson plans that can be used by a substitute in case of an unscheduled absence.
• Assists the mentors with daily progress notes on specific children, reporting any behavioral interventions performed by the teacher.
• Assists with the supervision of consumers in the cottage, during breakfast and lunch, modeling and promoting pro-social behavior.
• Becomes knowledgeable and proficient in managing the agency’s trauma informed and relationship-based philosophy of care.
• Acquires and maintains Therapeutic Crisis Intervention certification.
• Acquires and maintains CPR and First Aid certification.
• Maintains or actively pursues a North Carolina Teaching Certificate by earning continuing education credits as prescribed by the Department of Public Instruction. Submits documentation of renewal credits awarded SEIC’s compliance Dept.
• Continuously seek knowledge & understanding of cultural diversity and use this information to create richer, more effective relationships with colleagues and consumers.
• Develops & nurtures mutually respectful relationships with consumers and their families.
• Works in partnership with other team members.
• Staff must report any staff member that is not staying awake for the duration of their shift.
• There are to be no cell phones inside the workplace at any time unless you are a manager or supervisor.
• Ensure the effective transfer of records between SEIC and community schools as needed.
• Update client’s files as it relates to transitional educational services.
• Provide direct individualized instruction to specific students identified as performing below grade level in the areas of literacy and math skills when students are suspended or expelled from their school
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• Completes and maintains all Title I documentation as it relates to transitional and tutoring services provided to the program’s students.
• Develops positive therapeutic relationships with consumers, engaging them in the learning process, helping them to develop self- management & social skills, & preparing them for success in a community school setting.
• Provides case coordination functions, as appropriate.
• Provides crisis prevention and intervention strategies and conducts life space interviews, when needed. Helps to complete all incident- related paperwork (progress notes, critical incident reports, accident/injury reports etc.).
• Submit documentation in a timely manner.
• Acquires and maintains Medication Administration certification.
• Develops mutually respectful relationships with our consumers and their families.
• Works in partnership with other team members.
• Demonstrate professionalism and mutual respect when representing SEIC in the community and on-site.
• Works with Title I contact to ensure transitional and tutoring services are provided and maintains supportive documentation.
• Conducts and interprets assessments of academic achievement.
• Actively participates in faculty meetings, IEP meetings, Child and Family Team meetings, Quarterly Treatment Reviews, etc when necessary. Completes all required reports within prescribed time limits (i.e. notes, monthly progress summaries, report cards, IEP updates and discharge summaries).
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
• Adheres to all Procedures: Governing Programs and Services for Children with Special Needs. This includes completing and updating
IEP’s and initial entry and re-evaluation testing and paperwork.
• Becomes knowledgeable and proficient in managing the campus-wide relationship-based philosophy of care.
• Maintains the equipment and supplies in the classroom.
• Other duties as assigned by the Program Director
• Hours may be changed to meet the needs of the clients and the agency.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This position does not oversee staff.
Qualifications/Education:
The position of Teacher requires a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in education with a master’s degree in special education preferred. (Bachelor’s degree with population-specific experience may be considered). Teachers must possess or be actively working toward certification from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. Non-certified staff and/or those without a master’s degree must matriculate a minimum of 6 credit hours per calendar year toward these goals.
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Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The work is typically performed in a community setting with a moderate noise level.
Physical Requirements
Will frequently perform a wide variety of physical tasks such as standing, walking, running, stooping, bending, climbing stairs, and lifting of individuals which requires strength, coordination, endurance, and agility. In addition, there may be occasional contact with hostile individuals, and incumbents may be subjected to physical and verbal abuse while restraining children and adolescents.
The employee must maintain sufficient physical agility and stamina to intervene with violent, unruly, or uncooperative children and adolescents and must be able to exert the minimum necessary strength to restrain and subdue the youth. The employee must be agile enough to control and rapidly extricate him/herself and children and adolescents from buildings in case of an emergency. The employee must be capable of running a distance as required in the apprehension of a fleeing youth. Persons with any medical problems such as joint problems, obesity, arthritis, or cardiopulmonary conditions, where it would be unwise or not possible to engage in moderate physical exertion should not be considered.
I attest that I am physically capable of sustained, intense exertion and have no physical disability or condition (i.e., recent surgery, back or joint problems, obesity, arthritis, heart condition) that would prevent me from participating in the physical requirements of this position.