High School Severe and Profound Special Education Teacher

High School Severe and Profound Special Education Teacher

Oklahoma Teaching Certification Required. Must have a Severe and Profound Special Education endorsement.

Residency: This position is virtual but does require Oklahoma residency.

Overview: K12, a Stride Company, offers an online option for a high-quality, personalized education experience at Oklahoma Virtual Academy (OVCA). This is a full-time position, typically 40+ hours per week, with the ability to maintain a professional home office during the workday.

Essential Functions:

• Ensure all special education and related services are provided as determined by the IEP team
• Communicate with parents and applicable related service staff to ensure students with special needs receive appropriate therapies
• Develop compliant IEPs, progress reports, and other state-specific required special education documentation
• Facilitate and lead collaborative special education meetings such as annual IEP meetings
• Use provided resources to ensure accommodations and modifications for students with disabilities such as assistive technology, supplemental curriculum, and accessible text
• Make modifications and accommodations to Stride K12 lessons and assessments as specified by the IEP
• Ensure inclusion and success of students in the general education classroom
• Collect data and work samples to monitor student progress toward IEP goals and objectives
• Document all contact with parents and interventions with students
• Analyze student data to prescribe remediation and enrichment as needed
• Provide rich and engaging synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences for students
• Commitment to personalizing learning for all students
• Demonstrate a belief in all students’ ability to succeed and meet high expectations
• Maintain grade book, ensure student academic integrity, make student placement and promotion decisions, and alert administrators to concerns about student performance and progress
• Prepare students for high-stakes standardized tests
• Establish and maintain positive rapport with families and regularly communicate with and respond to students and learning coaches/parents in a timely manner
• Support learning coaches/parents with student curricular and instructional issues, as well as basic troubleshooting in a virtual classroom environment that aligns with academy policies and procedures
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time for face-to-face professional development, student testing, and/or as required by the school

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree
• Active state teaching license
• Ability to clear required background check

Other Qualifications:

• Ability to work collaboratively with other teachers to interpret and produce numeric, tabular, and graphic representations of student data, and use it to drive instructional decisions