Job Location Needham - Needham, MAPosition Type Full-TimeEducation Level Bachelor DegreeSalary Range $57800.00 - $75000.00 Salary/yearJob Shift Day (1st Shift)
The Special Education Teacher - Reading works individually and/or in small groups with students to support them in the areas of: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. This teacher will help students develop their reading skills and contribute to their academic growth. The Special Education Teacher - Reading will conduct educational evaluations and write IEP goals/objectives as needed in collaboration with the classroom teacher and classroom supervisor. This teacher will commit to child centered, family focused, culturally competent care and strength-based treatment.
Education and Licensure
Required: Bachelor’s degree in related field; licensure in Special Education, Moderate Disabilities PreK-8
Preferred: Master’s degree in special education; valid reading specialist license; Wilson certification
Experience
Required: Experience teaching reading
Preferred: Experience working with children with complex social, emotional, and behavioral challenges.
Abilities
Required mental abilities: Ability to be flexible and work collaboratively. Ability to respond to emergency situations quickly and safely. Ability to work in a stressful and fast paced environment. Must understand child development and the impact of emotional, behavioral, and learning disabilities. Must understand issues of confidentiality. Must be receptive to supervision and professional development.
Required physical abilities: Ability to work and stand for extended period of time. Job may require bending, stooping, stretching, and lifting. Job requires the ability to perform therapeutic physical intervention as needed.
Essential functions:
Prepare and provide multi-sensory individualized instruction for students in reading, including: phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.
Work as a part of a multidisciplinary team to further the emotional, behavioral, and educational development of children.
Create multi-sensory, multi-modal, varied opportunities for learning that are built on student’s prior knowledge and experience to build academic and social skills.
Translate evaluation of student work into records that accurately convey the level of student achievement, by writing thorough IEPs and quarterly reports.
Maintain a classroom atmosphere that is conducive to learning and effectively manage the behavior of students in small and large groups.
Apply Walker’s model of childcare, including Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI), which requires physical restraint when necessary, CARE, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, cooperative group games, and behavioral support.
Implement treatment protocol and appropriate therapeutic strategies established in children’s treatment plans, IEPs, and individual support plans.
Meet children’s physical needs and provide a safe and therapeutic environment for children.
Participate fully in the administrative functions of teaching and childcare, including attending and participating in required meetings, completing assigned report writing tasks in a timely manner, and actively communicating with families and members of the students’ multidisciplinary team.
Actively participate in supervision and professional development opportunities offered at Walker.
Use a variety of formal and informal assessments to accurately measure student progress toward and achievement of the learning objectives and to plan or modify further instruction.
Follow and implement all Walker policies and procedures.
Provide coverage/support in a classroom as needed.
Other duties as assigned.
Supervision to be received: Directly responsible to and supervised by the Assistant Principal
Supervision to be exercised: None
Walker is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based upon an individual’s race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, national guard or reserve unit obligations, participation in discrimination complaint-related activities, or membership in any category protected by federal or state law.
Walker is a leading not-for-profit organization providing intensive, highly specialized therapeutic and academic services for exceptionally vulnerable yet resilient children, teens, and families facing complex mental health, emotional, behavioral, and learning challenges.
Walker’s evidence-based programs positively impact thousands of children, teens, and families each year throughout Greater Boston, the North and South Shore as well as in Central Massachusetts. Walker provides services through campuses in Needham and Watertown, community-based clinical, home-based, parent education and youth development programs, professional seminars, consultations, and coaching.
