Severe/Cognitive Needs Teacher - Significant Support Needs (SSN) JobID: 9144

　　Position Type:

　　Teaching: Special Education/ Teacher-Severe Cognitive Needs

　　Date Posted:

　　1/11/2024

　　Location:

　　Shadow Ridge Middle School

　　Closing Date:

　　Open Until Filled

　　SALARY INFORMATION:SEE CERTIFIED SALARY SCHEDULE (https://www.adams12.org/our-district/careers/teach)

　　STANDARD HOURS PER WEEK: 40

　　FTE: 1.0

　　MONTHS PER YEAR: 9

　　JOB CODE: 174099

　　POSITION TYPE: REPLACEMENT – PERMANENT/REGULAR

　　LOCATION: THORNTON, CO.

　　Adams 12 Five Star Schools is deeply committed to a community of excellence, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. We commit to eliminate the predictability of who is included in excellence and who is not. Adams 12 Five Star Schools puts students first and supports our district's mission toelevate student success for every student every day in every classroom.Candidates who can contribute to our goal are encouraged to apply and to identify their strengths in this area.

　　SUMMARY:Significant Support Needs Teachers facilitate specially designed academic, social-emotional and activities of daily living instruction for students with extensive and diverse needs in the areas of cognition and/or learning, communication, movement and/or social/emotional abilities. These individuals may also have concurrent health, sensory, physical and/or behavioral disabilities.

　　ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

　　Advocacy

　　Advocate for students with disabilities to ensure access to learning opportunities and equity in discipline processes

　　Model and promote inclusive language

　　Facilitate care and management of students’ personal and medical needs

　　Ensure students have access to appropriate communication resources

　　Assessment

　　Assess and determine eligibility of students with disabilities

　　Develop and monitor progress of SMART learning goals for each student

　　Administer Colorado alternative assessments

　　Collaboration

　　Coordinate, schedule and monitor paraprofessionals

　　Collaborate with classroom teachers, school psychologists, speech/language pathologists, schoolsocial workers (https://www.thebalancecareers.com/how-to-get-a-job-in-social-work-2060793) and other special education service providers to develop integrated plans for students with disabilities

　　Collaborate with families to ensure students’ strengths, needs, services and progress are regularly communicated

　　Compliance

　　Implement IDEA and ECEA regulations

　　Develop and implement legally compliant, instructionally sound IEPs

　　Ensure IEP implementation across settings

　　Abide by all district/policies/procedures

　　Instruction

　　Identify students’ current academic and functional performance levels

　　Implement SSN Quality Indicators

　　Develop appropriately ambitious trajectories toward Colorado Extended Evidence Outcomes (EEO)

　　Plan age-appropriate lessons incorporating evidence-based practices and identify resources for instruction

　　Implement specially-designed instruction in a continuum of special education/general educational environments

　　Understand or be willing to learn to how to plan and implement literacy and math instruction for students with Intellectual Disabilities

　　Differentiate instruction for learners with diverse needs

　　Demonstrate an understanding of student behavior and classroom management structures

　　Participate in ongoing professional development sessions

　　EDUCATION AND RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:

　　Bachelor’s degree or higher.

　　Must be a minimum of 18 years old.

　　LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS or CERTIFICATIONS:

　　Criminal background check required for hire.

　　Must possess the required license and endorsement for the position, or be able to obtain, or be in process with, the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) for a valid Colorado Educator License within 30 days of hire.

　　Preference given to candidates with with SSN Teaching Experience and/or ELL Training and/or an ESL or (LDE) Linguistically Diverse Education Endorsement.

　　SALARY INFORMATION (FOR EXTERNAL CANDIDATES):

　　All salary placement on our Certified Salary schedule (https://www.adams12.org/our-district/careers/teach) is dependent on the employees’ education and/or work experience. Certified/licensed employees will be granted one (1) year for each full year of contractual and/or work experience up to a maximum of ten (10) years, which includes in-district and out-of-district contractual teaching and/or work experience. Responsibility for verification of outside experience shall rest with the individual employee. For further explanation of salary placement please refer to our Certified Master Agreement (https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1658853885/adams12org/vocdgvbfzhxovelvx372/CertMasterAgreement.pdf) that can be found on our district website.

　　BENEFITS INFORMATION:

　　Adams 12 Five Star Schools is committed to providing an environment that promotes a healthy employee population able to serve our students at the highest level. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision and life insurance as well as other programs for benefit eligible employees. The employee assistance program, voluntary life insurance through PERA, and 401(k), 403(b) & 457(b) plans are available to all employees regardless of hours worked and are available immediately (upon hire date).

　　To learn more about our benefits including paid time off, please see ourBenefits Overview (https://www.adams12.org/our-district/human-resources/benefits-overview) .

　　THIS POSTING IS NOT INCLUSIVE OF THE JOB DESCRIPTION.

　　Rev 6/23