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Linn-Mar Community Schools High School Special Education Teacher-Instructional Strategist I/II - High School in Marion, Iowa
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Position Title:Special Education Teacher (Instructional Strategist I / II)
Immediate Supervisor: Building Principal or Designee
Summary (Job Goal): Be dedicated to the development of lifelong learners by equipping students with the knowledge and skills to confidently meet life's challenges as responsible, productive citizens.
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- Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects and effectively communicate those objectives to students.
- Identify students' needs and make appropriate referrals and develop strategies for individual education plans.
- Effectively communicate with parents on a regular basis outside the normal classroom day by means of newsletters, e-mail, notes, phone calls and individual parent conferences.
- Discuss student problems, behavior incidents, positive developments, and progress with parents in an honest, sensitive, and confidential manner.
- Promotes parent participation and involvement in education activities provided for their children.
- Confer and cooperate with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting student learning, following approved curricula.
- Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve student behavioral and academic problems.
- Identify students showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health-related problems, and discuss them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.
- Engage in collaborative work and contribute to team planning.
Competence in Content Knowledge
- Support instruction through an Individual Education Plan for students with special needs, aligning with District adopted curriculum.
- Provide individual and small group instruction designed to meet individual needs of students.
- Develop and use instructional materials suitable for verbal or visual instruction of students with a wide range of mental, physical, and emotional maturities.
- Enrich the educational program through study/field trips to community locations and through community member classroom visits. Share and interpret these experiences with students and parents.
- Instruct students in citizenship and basic subject matter specified in state law and regulations and procedures of the District.
Planning/Preparing
Develop lesson plans and instructional materials and provide individualized and small group instruction in order to adapt the curriculum to the needs of each student.
Plan individual and group activities to stimulate academic, social and emotional growth.
Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
Translate lesson plans and activities into developmentally appro