Special Education Specialist
Special Education Specialist
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05-04-2025
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Thank you for your interest in Rome City Schools!
We look forward to reviewing your application!
POSITION TITLE: Special Education Specialist
DEPARTMENT: Special Education
WORK DAYS: 210
REPORTS TO: Director of Special Education
REQUIREMENTS:
- Education: Masters Degree or higher in Special Education or a related field
- Required Certification: Special Education General Curriculum and Special Education Adapted Curriculum
- Preferred Certification (in addition to required certification): Early Childhood Education and/or Elementary Education
- Preferred Training and/or Endorsement: GSU/GaDOE Functional Behavior Assessments and Behavior Intervention Planning GaDOE Approved Dyslexia Endorsement MTSS and Mindset
- Required Experience: Successful experience teaching special education.
- Preferred Experience: Successful experience as a general education teacher or coteaching as a special educator Successful experience leading teachers to improve practices and/or instruction.
- Physical activities: Routine physical activities that are required to fulfill job responsibilities.
- Ability to communicate professionally and effectively both in oral and written forms with diverse public and colleagues
- Exceptional understanding of federal state and local laws policies and procedures.
- Expertise in designing evaluating and providing specially designed instruction for students with disabilities.
- Expertise in general education curriculum instruction MTSS and interventions (Tier I Tier II and Tier III).
- Leadership ability in professionally developing special education teachers general education teachers and special education paraprofessionals.
- Ability to collect maintain interpret and verify the accuracy of data.
- Proficient recordkeeping and computer skills.
The Board of Education and the Superintendent may accept alternatives to some of the above requirements.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
- Demonstrates prompt and regular attendance.
- Takes direction and completes all assigned work in a timely manner.
- Conduct ongoing program needs analysis and collaborate with other departments on developing procedures and practices to best serve students with disabilities.
- Coordinate the design and implementation of special education programming for a wide range of unique learner profiles.
- Provide professional learning and modeling of specially designed instruction provision of accommodations and modifications progress monitoring and implementation of behavior intervention plans.
- Provide leadership in the design and delivery of instruction in the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
- Conduct biweekly schoollevel special education team meetings focused on specially designed instruction and databased decisionmaking.
- Analyze student data to review achievement and evaluate the effectiveness of instruction for students with disabilities.
- Work in conjunction with special education teachers to ensure the needs of students are met according to IEP development.
- Build teacher capacity to effectively manage their caseload and efficiently schedule services.
- Assist with decisionmaking regarding statewide assessment participation of students with disabilities.
- Monitors the timely and accurate completion of grading IEP data collection and IEP progress monitoring.
- Maintains lending library and inventory of specially designed instructional materials assigned to special educators and schools.
- Mentor firstyear special education teachers on instruction and service provision.
- Collaborate with schoollevel instructional/data specialists.
- Serves as LEA representative at IEP meetings.
- Performs other duties as assigned as needed to lead RCS through programmatic change
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
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