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FOUR OAKS INC OF IOWA School Teacher in Forest City, Iowa
The School Teacher is responsible to meet the educational needs of clients. Activities include educational planning and services, asset management, behavior management, documentation, support agency/program mission and values, and meet responsible work performance standards.
Educational Responsibilities:
- Assess educational needs of client
- Develops and implements an educational plan designed to meet client needs
- Provides a safe learning environment
- Maintains behavioral controls in classroom
- Interfaces with school systems to provide continuous educational services
- Interfaces with program staff to ensure that the educational components of the treatment plan are met.
Behavior Management Responsibilities:
- Develops and implements an educational plan designed to meet client needs
- Provides a safe learning environment
- Provides consistent, individualized reinforcement to client behavior, using daily issues to teach and reinforce adaptive behaviors.
- Utilizes a proactive/preventative method of intercepting problems to neutralize them before they escalate.
- Strategically utilizes identified behavior management techniques and other de-escalation techniques.
- Assists clients in developing insight into their behaviors so that they learn to self-identify and self-correct.
- Understands the impact of clients behaviors on their own actions/reactions in the workplace and to enhance the effectiveness of their interventions.
- Knows the population and is aware of individualized treatment plan.
- Establishes a therapeutic relationship with the client based on trust and respect.
- Evaluates the impact of behavioral, group treatment and life-space interventions and provides direction and feedback.
- Assures consistent, ongoing and timely provision for basic client needs.
- Effectively participates with team to review case progress and provide best programming.
Qualifications
Must be at least 21 years of age with a Bachelors Degree in Education with Behavioral Disorder certification and four years of related experience OR Bachelors Degree in Education and five years of relevant experience OR commensurate equivalents of education and experience.
About School-Based Programming Four Oaks has collaborated with local school districts across the state of Iowa to create unique and innovative school-based programs to meet the needs of at-risk students. Currently there are several supervised suspension and detention centers, conduct disorder and specific intervention/discipline classrooms and special education staff in-service training.