Job Description

Job Location Minnetonka - Minnetonka, MN 55343 Position Type Full Time Education Level 4 Year Degree Salary Range $37,500.00 - $70,000.00 Salary

***Term of Assignment: A long term Special Education Teacher Sub is needed from approximately January - June 2026. **Potential for this to become a full-time Special Education Teacher for the 26-27 school year.

POSITION PURPOSE: To ensure student special education academic needs are addressed using best practice and research based strategies and interventions.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Collaborate with general education teacher to accommodate and modify lesson plans, activities, assignments, and tests
• Team teach with general education teacher
• Provide direct instruction on subject area curriculum, incorporating goals and objectives in the special education or general education setting
• Maintain accurate and complete lesson plans
• Engage in effective and appropriate classroom management by providing an inviting, exciting, innovative, and challenging learning environment
• Organize and oversee data collection for academic and/or behavioral goals and objectives in general education classrooms
• Write progress reports summarizing data collected each quarter
• Collaborate with general education teachers and educational assistants to implement student individual behavior plans
• Ensure that students’ accommodations and modifications are being implemented and academic service minutes are being served
• Attend special education and general education department meetings
• Provide input to case managers on students before IEP meetings and attend IEP meetings if necessary
• Work with a team on the continued implementation and development of programming in the subject area for 7th-12th grade students
• Maintain positive, professional relationships and use appropriate verbal, nonverbal and written communication with all individuals.
• Monitor due process documents for accuracy and compliance.
• Participate in IEP meetings and student case conferences, as needed
• Participate in professional growth activities including conferences, workshops, coursework, trainings, committees, etc.
• Regular, prompt attendance

OTHER POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

COMPETENCIES

• Ability to work well with families
• Awareness of autism and its manifestations, willingness to work with students on the autism spectrum
• Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Excellent work habits including attendance, punctuality, and dependability
• Promotes a positive school culture
• Strong communication skills and ability to work within a team

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

MENTAL DEMANDS

The mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Ability to read, analyze and interpret human service periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, students, parents and the general public. Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as percentages, mean, mode and median ability to draw and interpret bar graphs. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.

This position description is intended to indicate the kinds of tasks and levels of work difficulty that will be required of positions that will be given this title and shall not be construed as declaring what the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position shall be. It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under his/her supervision. The use of a particular expression or illustration describing duties shall not be held to exclude other duties not mentioned. Ability to competently perform all of the essential duties of the position, with or without reasonable accommodation, demonstrated commitment, and the ability to work productively as a member of a team or work group are basic responsibilities of all positions at Lionsgate Academy.

Qualifications

REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

• Possession of a valid Minnesota Teaching License in Special Education
• If not currently licensed, must be willing and eligible to apply for and receive a Tier 1 or 2 Teaching License
• Ability to operate a computer and the software necessary to complete the required job tasks

PREFERRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

• In process of gaining ASD Licensure or hold certificate with willingness to pursue licensure
• Experience, interest and/or expertise workingwith students on the autism spectrum, varied learning styles and levels of mastery
• Experience in differentiation, using creative teaching techniques from project–based to direct-instruction in developing personalized learning plans for each student