Miami: 2024-2025 Special Education Teacher - Middle School

Job Description

Here’s what you need to know:
Our middle school is seeking awe-inspiring teachers to guide our students as they climb the mountain to college and beyond. Our teachers are dynamic leaders both in and outside of their classroom. They love students, working with families and the community they serve.
Special Education/ ESE Teacher
KIPP Miami is looking for a motivated Special Education/ ESE teacher who is SPED certified and has a track record of molding future leaders in our communities. You are passionate about education and understand the importance of building strong relationships in generating student achievement. You are dedicated to going above and beyond to ensure our students succeed.
Here’s what you’ll be doing:
Joining our schools as a teacher comes with a lot of growth opportunities, but with great power comes great responsibility. Your role as a Special Education Teacher will involve a number of responsibilities whichwill include but are not limited to:
Teach in an inclusive class, sharing all responsibilities with a general education teacher
Provides resource small group support as needed
Provides an alternative or parallel teaching to a group of students and provides 1:
1 teaching, as needed
Employs multisensory teaching strategies and specialized instruction as needed based on student’s specific disabilities
Implements all modifications and accommodations for the classroom and in testing
CreateIEPs in collaboration with Child Response Teamto ensure services are being delivered at a high level and are in compliance.
Uses student IEPs, evaluations, and present levels of performance to ensure services are being delivered at a high level.
Collaborate with student support team to conduct annual IEP meetings
Use data to responsively teach to mastery of academic skills
Tracks student performance and progress andis responsible for continual improvement in student growth objectives
Administers and tracks weekly assessment data to both monitor progress towards grade level goals as well as IEP goals
Create action plans to improve performance when students are not on track to meet goals
Consistently and clearly communicates progress to all shared stakeholders
Participate in school, departmental, and parent meetings
Participate in school events, activities, and programs both during and outside of regular class instruction hours.