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ALBIA COMMUNITY SCHOOL DIST Elementary Special Education Teacher in Albia, Iowa
In a career teaching special education, you may work one-on-one with learning disabled students or teach a classroom of intellectually disabled or developmentally delayed students.
Youll assess students needs in order to determine your lessons plans. Youll be responsible for developing Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) for students, tracking student progress, supervising teacher assistants, working with students in groups and one-on-one and keeping parents and other teachers abreast of a students progress.
Youll work alongside general education teachers as well as counselors, superintendents and administrators. As a student moves through the school year, itll be your job to update the IEP in order to reflect their progress and goals.
As an aspiring special education teacher, youll also need to decide which grade level youre interested in teaching. Special education teachers work with students from preschool through high school.
Benefits for Teachers in the Albia Community School District:
- High-quality insurance plans through Wellmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield. The District provides single coverage at no cost to the employee. Employees needing family coverage pay up to a maximum of $343.08 per month for the lowest deductible plan. The District pays the remaining $17,400.00 annually for your family. The current plans include the 750 Select, 1250 Select and 1500 Copay Select plans.
- Single or family dental paid at no cost to the employee.
- A $10,000 life/accidental death insurance policy and Long Term Disability coverage are provided at no cost to the employee.
- Employees start with 11 days of sick leave and earn up to 15 per year for a maximum of 150 sick leave days.
- Employees receive 2 personal days each year and have the option to use them, have them paid out, or carry one over to the following school year.
- Employees receive 6 bereavement leave days each year.
- Teachers are provided an Albia Schools activity card to attend student activities at no charge.
- Experienced teachers bring in 100% of their experience on the salary schedule.
- Teachers are rewarded on the salary schedule for continuing their education.
- Albia Schools has a strong Teacher Leadership program providing support to teachers with a strong mentoring program and Professional Leadership Teams (PLT), District Leadership Teams (DLT), and Instructional Leadership Teams (ILT), all working to support teachers and the jobs they need to do every day.