High School Science Teacher

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Online high school science teacher delivering IEP-based special education instruction for Texas Virtual Academy students. Monitoring progress, collaborating with families, and supporting virtual learning and in-person testing.

Responsibilities:

  • Serve as teacher of record for students and provide instruction, support, and guidance
  • Manage the learning process for self-contained and ALT students according to individual IEP needs
  • Monitor progress toward IEP goals and maintain service logs and required special education compliance documentation
  • Collaborate with parents and colleagues on course goals, curriculum, and materials
  • Create compliant IEPs, progress reports, and state-specific special education documentation
  • Participate in collaborative special education meetings, including annual IEP meetings
  • Participate in Professional Learning Communities and professional development
  • Provide engaging synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences
  • Analyze student data to prescribe remediation and enrichment and monitor student growth
  • Collect data and work samples to monitor IEP progress
  • Document parent contacts, teacher collaborations, and student interventions
  • Ensure accommodations and modifications using assistive technology, supplemental curriculum, and accessible text
  • Provide special education services and support general education teachers and parents with accommodations
  • Promote inclusion and success in the general education classroom
  • Maintain the grade book and provide input on placement and promotion decisions
  • Prepare students for high-stakes standardized tests
  • Maintain positive rapport with families and communicate with students and learning coaches/parents promptly
  • Support learning coaches/parents with curricular, instructional, and basic virtual-classroom troubleshooting issues
  • Support in-person student testing

Requirements:

  • Texas residency required
  • Texas Special Education and ESL certificates/licenses preferred
  • Experience working with self-contained and ALT students in the proposed age group preferred
  • Experience supporting adults and children in the use of technology preferred
  • Experience teaching online (virtual) and/or in a brick-and-mortar environment preferred
  • Experience with an online learning platform preferred
  • 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
  • Receptive to receiving regular coaching from administrators
  • Ability to embrace change and adapt to ensure excellent student outcomes
  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint
  • Ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new technologies and teaching platforms
  • Strong written/verbal communication skills
  • Ability to travel up to 20% of the time to support in-person student testing, attend professional development, or other required travel
  • Ability to clear a required background check

Benefits:

  • Home-based position
  • Seasonal travel requirements
  • Professional Learning Communities/professional development
  • Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities
  • Equal opportunity employment