Maestro(a) de Educación Especial - Servicios Profesionales

Acadia Healthcare; Río Piedras (PR); On-site; USD 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Harboroaks in Puerto Rico seeks a dedicated Special Education teacher to support residential program students with diverse disabilities. You will help develop academic, social, and life skills within a structured setting and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team.

The role requires establishing behavior policies, maintaining records, and applying individualized strategies to promote progress in language, cognition, and motor skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Special Education.
• Valid teaching certification issued by the Department of Education.
• Current and active certification/license in good standing.

Responsibilities

• Establish and enforce behavior rules and policies to maintain order among students.
• Maintain accurate student records and prepare reports as required by laws and policies.
• Employ special educational strategies to improve language, cognition, and memory.
• Establish clear objectives for all lessons and communicate them to students.
• Prepare materials and classrooms for activities; observe and evaluate progress.
• Modify the general education curriculum for students with disabilities using various techniques.

Skills

Behavior management

Curriculum adaptation

Record keeping

Student assessment

IEP knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s and/or Master’s Degree in Special Education

Valid Teaching Certification issued by the Department of Education

Current and active certification/license in good standing

Job description

Overview

PURPOSE STATEMENT:

Teach academic, social, and life skills to residential program students with learning, emotional, or physical disabilities. Includes teachers who specialize and work with students who are blind or have visual impairments; students who are deaf or have hearing impairments; and students with intellectual disabilities.

Responsibilities

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Establish and enforce rules for behavior and policies and procedures to maintain order among students.
• Maintain accurate and complete student records, and prepare reports on children and activities, as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
• Employ special educational strategies and techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, and memory.
• Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to students.
• Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification and positive reinforcement.
• Modify the general education curriculum for students with disabilities, based upon a variety of instructional techniques and technologies.

Qualifications

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s Degree in Special Education.
• Valid Teaching Certification issued by the Department of Education.
• Current and active certification/license in good standing.

LICENSES/DESIGNATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS:

• CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility).
• First aid may be required based on state or facility.
• Ley 300