Special Education Teacher - URGENT HIRING

Job Description

Job Description

Special Education Teacher (Grades 6 to 12)

Compensation: Pays up to $55 per hour

Job Description

Are you an educator that wants to make an impact in students’ lives? Do you believe that every student should have the opportunity for success? If so, this is the place for you! We are looking for educators that are warm, outgoing, authentic, passionate and inspiring. We place great emphasis on the student-teacher relationship, a critical component to the development of students’ personal, emotional, and academic well-being.

Focused Staffing Group is looking for a Special Education Teacher with an AZ credential for Special Education 9-12 to work at our partner school in Phoenix.

The Teacher will have the following responsibilities:

• Provide instruction to students with special needs and identified learning disabilities in a Special Education teacher program.
• Tutor individual and small groups of students, reinforcing language and reading concepts.
• Administer and score individual and group tests.
• Schedule IEP meetings, coordinating schedules with parents, general education teacher(s), administrator, and all appropriate special education staff.
• Conduct IEP meetings.
• Communicate and coordinate special needs evaluation and testing with speech teachers, counselors, and other service providers.
• Communicate with parents regarding individual student progress and conduct.
• Maintain progress records and record progress toward IEP goals.
• Record progress within the independent study program.
• Perform other duties in support of the Special Education teacher program.
• Support other academic programs offered within the independent study program.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Special Education teacher license.
• Ability to teach students of grades 6-12.
• Ability to work with student of all ages.
• Ability to understand, adopt, and support the independent study program, concepts and their philosophies.
• Ability to organize and present ideas effectively in oral and written form.
• Ability to make skillful decisions.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Ability to operate a PC computer, word processor, copier, FAX, and other office machines.

Education and Experience:

• Minimum BA degree or equivalent.
• AZ Special Education Credential Required.

Focused Staffing Group and our partner schools do not discriminate in employment or educational programs, services, or activities based on race, color, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, military/veteran status, disability, marital status, or any other protected category in accordance with state and federal laws.