Teacher, Special Education

Title: Teacher, Special Education

Location: Remote Michigan

Job Description:

Uplift Michigan Online School - Residency in Michigan REQUIRED

Uplift Michigan Online School is searching for a Teacher of Special Education

Uplift Michigan Online School must provide an excellent education to all our students consistent with the mission, vision, and goals of the school and with the core values of Summit Management Consulting. Your primary goal is to ensure that each of your students is learning subject matter identified in the State standards and the Uplift Michigan Online School curriculum.

MI RESIDENCY AND TEACHING CERTIFICATION REQUIRED

Essential Functions

• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
• Consistently plan and deliver lessons that are aligned with the student's IEP goals AND are varied, interesting, engaging, and enjoyable for your students.
• Review incoming student IEP documentation.
• Write IEP goals and communicate necessary accommodations.
• Host and facilitate IEP, REED, MET, and MDR meetings for students on your caseload.
• Track student progress and update goal progress in EdPlan.
• Facilitate learning by creating lesson plans that are in harmony with students' learning styles.
• Provide Resource Room support, as well as self-contained classroom instruction if needed.
• Support students during weekly advisory sessions.
• Collaborate with general education teachers to ensure consistency of special education support.
• Ensure all IEP meetings and documentation are timely.  Meet or exceed compliance timeline expectations.
• Consistently review and analyze student performance data to develop plans to meet the needs of all students.
• Maintain timely, complete, and accurate student records (i.e., Skyward and CAT).
• Assist in the development of a curriculum that is aligned with the State standards, referring to these approved guidelines as often as necessary as you design and execute daily plans for teaching your students.
• Ensure that your classroom is conducive to learning – one that is safe and nurturing for all students. Provide consistency and balance for your students.
• Ensure that parents are frequently advised as to their child’s performance and progress.
• Communicated via all means available and necessary including phone, text, email, Skyward, face-to-face conferences, written correspondence, or other means.
• Frequent communication will assist parents in playing a key role in their child’s education. This will prevent surprises with progress reports and report card results.
• Provide parents with encouraging news as well as items of concern.
• Return parent e-mail and voice mail messages within 24 hours.
• Conduct research, attend conferences, and meetings, and pursue continuing education to ensure you are serving to model being a life-long learner and to ensure you are providing effective instruction. Keeping your teaching certification up to date is your professional responsibility.
• Perform other duties and tasks as directed by School Administration.

Schedule

This role requires work between 8 am and 4 pm, Monday through Friday, and additional hours as needed. This is a full-time, salary position that requires 40 hours plus, if necessary to complete required tasks. This is a remote position, but the hours are not flexible.  

MI RESIDENCY AND TEACHING CERTIFICATION REQUIRED

 In-person commitments are a requirement. These include: 

• State Testing
• Field trips
• Professional development
• Graduation

Required Education and Experience
Bachelor’s degree required and Michigan Teaching Certification in the assigned area as well as pre-service experience, as required for certification. Dual certification is highly preferred (RX and MB or MA).

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Offers benefits such as...

- Medical, dental, and vision benefits available.

- Volunteer Life Insurance

- Short Term Disability

- 401K and Roth 

- And more!