EC (Adapted Curriculum) Teacher

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •Bachelor's degree from an approved education program in subject area
• •North Carolina teaching license in Special Education—Adapted Curriculum (Area 88092)
• •Demonstrates knowledge of educational and exceptional children laws, rules, regulations, practices, and trends
• •Demonstrates knowledge of education curricula, instructional methodology and techniques, technology, cognitive development or students and integration of these to promote student success
• •Demonstrates knowledge of traits and characteristics of various severe disabilities
• •Ability to gather and record data on student progress toward academic and behavioral goals on the IEP on a timely basis
• •Ability to instruct and assess individual students and groups based on the North Carolina Standard Course of Study/Common Core
• •Ability to develop and implement the IEP in classroom settings that are compatible with the student's age and developmental level
• •Ability to constantly monitor the safety and wellbeing of students, particularly when student is participating in an inclusive activity
• •Understands the growth and development of assigned students
• •Must be able to use a variety of equipment and classroom tools such as computers, copiers, calculators, pencils, scissors, and equipment for children with special needs, etc
• •Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things
• •Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information (includes receiving instructions, assignments and/or directions from superiors.)
• •Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, handbooks, forms, lists, etc. and the ability to prepare correspondence, simple reports, forms, instructional materials, etc., using prescribed format
• •Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables
• •Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in variety of technical or professional languages including education terminology
• •Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of descriptive statistics, statistical inference and statistical theory
• •Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape
• •Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment
• •Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools. Must have minimal level of eye/hand/foot coordination
• •Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color
• •Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations
• •Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear). Must be able to communicate via telephone