What are the responsibilities and job description for the Teacher - Special Education position at Weymouth High School?
SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER- TLC
Weymouth Public Schools’ Therapeutic Learning Center (“TLC”) program is a therapeutic program continuum for students with a primary educational disability of Emotional Impairment. Students in this program have difficulty with developing age-appropriate social relationships with adults and/or peers, self-regulation of behavioral responses to typical school demands, ability to appropriately make transitions from one activity to another, ability to handle frustration in an age-appropriate manner, and/or ability to fully access the curriculum and instruction due to emotional/social/behavioral challenges.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Must be licensed as a Special Education teacher - Moderate Disabilities with the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
- SEI Endorsement Required
- Must hold a bachelor's degree or higher.
General Duties:
Guides and evaluates the learning experience of the students in her/his classes and accepts responsibility for activities of students within her/his purview within the school building or on the school grounds.
Specific Duties:
- Provides differentiated curriculum instruction to students
- Participates in faculty meetings and workshops
- Provides, when necessary, instructional help outside the regular student day within bounds established by the collective bargaining agreement
- Participates in curriculum planning and professional development activities
- Prepares records and reports as required
- Provides for the care and protection of school property
- Keeps records and all books, supplies, and equipment in her/his classroom
- Accepts instructional and non-instructional assignments as provided for in the collective bargaining agreement.
- Executes School Committee policy.