Teacher, Special Education Social Studies 0523-0035

Location: Erie 1 BOCES Special Education EDGE Academy Cheektowaga, NY
Annual Salary: Based on certification and experience*
Hours: 7:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Job Responsibilities
To Teach HS Regents Social Studies in a self-contained special class setting. To provide students with disabilities with a program that will enable them to reach their fullest physical, social-emotional, psychological, behavioral, and intellectual potential.
Specific Duties: 1. Assesses students, both informally and formally, in order to provide an individualized classroom program.

• Provides assistance to students with general education class assignments.
• Provides, when warranted, continuous consultation and/or management outside of the classroom to appropriate personnel.
• Assists other professional staff members in identifying, recommending, and resolving psychological or disciplinary actions unique to the student.
• Confers frequently with parents, professional staff members, building level administrators, and supervisors regarding the students educational, social/emotional, psychological, behavioral, and intellectual potential.
• Supervises Teacher Aide.
• Provides an individualized education program for students with disabilities consistent with New York State Common Core Learning Standards and the program's goals and requirements.
• Establishes a classroom environment that provides for the student's social/emotional and behavioral needs as well as academic needs including specific systems of motivation to students.
• When appropriate, coordinates, and supervises work experience and on-campus job-training programs involving students with disabilities.
• Assists in screening, evaluating, and recommending placement of students in the school's program.
• Assists and counsels’ students in making realistic assessments of their abilities in establishing educational and/or career goals.
• Keeps attendance records and other reports/records pertinent to the program.
• Works cooperatively with regular classroom teachers and staff who have students with disabilities interpreting their abilities, disabilities, and meeting the individual needs of the students.
• Participates, when appropriate, in continuous professional growth and development related to the field of teaching and/or specific area(s) of expertise.
• Designs plans and appropriate activities to reach individual pupil IE.P.'s.

Job Qualifications

• Must have dual certification in Students with Disabilities 7-12 and Social Studies 7-12
• Experience teaching in a special education setting

APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED THROUGH JUNE 8, 2023
Position Start Date:08/29/2023
Application Deadline:06/08/2023
Job Number: 0523-0035