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SIGNING BONUS $1500.00
For nearly 50 years, La Cheim has built a robust continuum of care to help kids and adults. We provide educational and mental health services throughout Alameda and Contra Costa County at our nonpublic schools, community health center, therapeutic behavioral services program and residential treatment center.
La Cheim School is looking for a Special Education teacher to provide multi-grade, differentiated instruction and academic interventions in response to identified areas of student strength, program parameters and stated Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals. The teacher works with and guides the team to provide a clear consistent integrated academic/therapeutic environment for the classroom, ensuring that academic, social and emotional needs of each student are met within the guidelines of the program, Ed Law and the IEP.
Schedule:
- Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 5:00pm
Qualifications and Skills:
- Must hold a valid California Special Education Mild to Moderate Disabilities Credential
- Intern Credential in Special Education program can be substituted for Special Education Credential
- Experience in Special Education preferred
- Must possess a Valid California Driver’s License and obtain TB, DOJ and FBI Clearance.
Experience:
- Ability to establish and support a safe, inclusive, therapeutic learning environment.
- Ability to present engaging, relevant, academic curriculum using differentiation and data driven planning
- Ability to work effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team to implement academic, behavioral and therapeutic services for students in special education
- Ability to assist with crisis intervention
Duties:
- Implement and integrate La Cheim’s positive behavior intervention program across the milieu
- Interact and intervene guided by the principles of Trauma Informed Care across the milieu
- Perform all duties to the development of an IEP: Completing assessments, drafting goals, creating progress reports
- Intervene using students behavioral program as needed
Physical Requirements:
- Sitting – up to 2 hours, not continuously; standing – up to 4 hours, not continuously
- Walking – up to 2 hours, not continuously; bending over – up to 1 hour, not continuously
- Exposure to emotionally disturbed students who may be physically and verbally violent and require safe physical management.
Equal Opportunity Employer
La Cheim School, Inc. is committed to diversity in its programming and in creating a staff reflective of the populations of the San Francisco Bay Area, and will not discriminate against applicants, employees, or unpaid veterans. We encourage and actively recruit applicants representing diversity of race, color, age, sex, race, religion, national origin, sex/gender expression and physical ability
La Cheim is a participant of the Federal Student Loan Forgiveness Program.
Employment Type: Full Time
Bonus/Commission: No
