Online High School Special Education Teacher

Stride, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 47,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas Virtual Academy of Hallsville (TVAH), a Stride K12 partner, is seeking a passionate Special Education Teacher for a remote, home-based role serving self-contained and ALT students. You will develop IEPs, monitor progress, and collaborate with families and general education teachers to tailor instruction in a virtual setting.

Texas Special Education certification is preferred; ESL certification is a plus.

Qualifications

• Ability to work collaboratively with other teachers to interpret and produce numeric, tabular, and graphic representations of student data, and use it to drive instructional decisions.
• Receptive to receiving coaching on a regular basis with administrators.
• Ability to embrace change and adapt to ensure excellent student outcomes.
• Strong written/verbal communication skills.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time to support in-person student testing, attend professional development or other travel as required by the school.
• Ability to clear required background check.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with parents and colleagues to manage coarse goals, curriculum, and materials that enhance the learning experience.
• Manager to create compliant IEP’s, progress reports and other state specific required special education documentation.
• Participate and provide input for collaborative special education meetings such as annual IEP meetings.
• Actively participate in Professional Learning Communities (or professional development).
• Provide rich and engaging synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences for students.
• Analyze student data to prescribe remediation and enrichment as needed.
• Participate in data analysis meetings to monitor student growth.
• Collect data and work samples to monitor student progress towards IEP goals and objectives.
• Document all contact with parents, collaborations with general education teachers, and interventions with students.
• Using provided resources to ensure accommodations and modifications for students with disabilities such as assistive technology, supplemental curriculum, and accessible text.
• Provide special education services to students; support general education teachers and parents with student accommodations to promote the attainment of IEP goals.
• Ensure inclusion and success of student in the general education classroom.
• Provide personalizing learning for all students.
• Demonstrate abelief in all students’ ability to succeed and meet high expectations.
• Maintain grade book ensuring student academic integrity, provide input for student placement and promotion decisions, and alert administrators to concerns about student performance and progress.
• Prepare students for high stakes standardized tests.
• Understand that a primary responsibility is to establish and maintain positive rapport with families and regularly communicates with and responds to students and learning coaches/parents in a timely manner.
• Support learning coaches/parents with student curricular and instructional issues, as well as basic troubleshooting in a virtual classroom environment that is in line with academy policies and procedures.
• Support in-person student testing.

Skills

Data analysis

Coaching

Adaptability

Microsoft Office

Verbal communication

Travel 20%

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Outlook

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Texas Virtual Academy of Hallsville (TVAH), a Stride K12 partner, is seeking a passionate Special Education Teacher for a remote, home-based role serving self-contained and ALT students. You will develop IEPs, monitor progress, and collaborate with families and general education teachers to tailor instruction in a virtual setting.

Texas Special Education certification is preferred; ESL certification is a plus.