Lower School Co-Teacher Special Educator August 2024

The IDEAL School of Manhattan is an inclusion school dedicated to creating a diverse community that affirms and accepts the full identities of all people while inspiring academic excellence creative leadership and a desire to build a more just and equitable world.

Position Description

The IDEAL School of Manhattan is seeking a talented warm and creative Lower School Teacher who believes in fostering the potential for excellence in all students equipping them with the academic and socialemotional skills necessary to lay the foundation for continued success.

Lower School classes at IDEAL work in an integrated coteaching model which partners a general educator and a special educator to provide a rigorous studentcentered differentiated collaborative educational experience within the context of an inclusion classroom. The coteaching model at IDEAL s Lower School ensures a low studentteacher ratio and allows teachers to organize flexible groups and to challenge inspire and support all learners in the classroom. Most classrooms are also assigned one or two associate teachers who facilitate the inclusion experience for a student in the school s Dylan program while also playing a supporting role in the larger classroom. IDEAL expands the definition of diversity to include learning styles and thus candidates should demonstrate the ability to teach a range of learners and to scaffold lessons with notetaking guides visual aids and other supports to promote the success of a range of learners.

Lower School is a time of profound growth and change as students master emergent academic skills become accustomed to classroom and schoolwide routines form a greater understanding of themselves and others and develop and sustain meaningful friendships. IDEAL educators are tasked with supporting this growth inside and outside the classroom in a consistent nurturing way; encouraging students to take the healthy risks necessary to learn new things about themselves and the world around them every day.

Responsibilities include:

• Collaborate as a member of a coteaching partnership in an inclusive classroom to plan and differentiate curriculum establish classroom routines and support all students
  

• Apply expertise in child development and the pedagogy of early and midchildhood education for typically developing students as well as those with special needs
  

• Partner with other educators therapists and additional professionals on the implementation of support strategies
  

• Research and integrate contemporary and innovative curricula texts and technology into instruction
  

• Create and implement tiered lesson plans incorporating differentiated instructional methods and outcomes to engage and inspire students with varied abilities and learning styles
  

• Contribute to CSE meetings and yearly goal reviews
  

• Communicate regularly via verbal and written communication with all constituencies including students faculty administration and families
  

• Attend and participate in weekly faculty meetings team meetings committee meetings school functions and professional development activities during and after school hours as needed appropriate and assigned
  

• Meet deadlines for progress reports and other administrative tasks within a school setting
  

• Contribute broadly and fully to the spirit and life of our students community and mission
  

• Uphold the mission philosophy principles policies and procedures of IDEAL
  

Essential Qualities

• Have a commitment to inclusive education and have the skills and passion to inspire nurture and challenge students with a range of interests experiences strengths readinesslevels and learning styles
  

• Have proven skills in classroom management helping to create a respectful safe and nurturing community where all students feel comfortable expressing their full identity and are inspired to celebrate the full identities of their peers
  

• Work to deeply understand the strengths and challenges of students and ensure that all students are challenged and supported across disciplines
  

• OrtonGillinghambased literacy instruction training and experience preferred
  

• A growth mindset and collaborative flexible spirit
  

• A willingness to ensure students are nurtured challenged and inspired across discipline
  

Requirements

• Bachelors degree required Master s degree preferred
  

• Special Education designation/certificate
  

• Minimum of three years of relevant schoolbased experience preferred
  

• Prior experience in an independent school preferred
  

Equal Opportunity Employer

The IDEAL School of Manhattan is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunities for all qualified employees and job applicants and to making all employment decisions without unlawful discrimination as to race color creed religion sex national origin age disability sexual orientation citizenship or immigration status marital status familial status actual or perceived status as a victim of domestic violence caregiver status gender identity or expression military status veteran status genetic predisposition or carrier status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal state or local law.This policy of Equal Employment Opportunity applies to all policies and procedures.

This policy of Equal Employment Opportunity applies to all policies and procedures relating to recruitment hiring compensation benefits training and development promotion demotion discipline termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.

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