High School Special Education - Long term Sub

The classroom teacher works with Oracle Charter School leadership and staff to provide a quality college preparatory educational program for all Oracle students and to develop and support the culture of the school. The classroom teacher supports charter-embedded instructional strategies and works with students and school leadership to achieve Oracle performance goals.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Teaches a full time course load of 5.0 course sections.
• Plans effective instruction aligned with New York State performance benchmarks, AP, CLEP, and Common Core Standards, as applicable.
• Builds and implements Interim Assessments, and interprets data to construct remediation plans.' ' '
• Contributes to and helps to maintain school-wide Curriculum maps.
• Provides materials for classroom instruction that are appropriate for the content-area and grade-levels of assigned courses.
• Engages in peer review of instructional materials.
• Uses student performance data to plan for instruction.
• Works in departmental and grade-level teams to provide data-driven instruction that focuses on and responds to student results.
• Identifies opportunities to utilize charter embedded strategies in planning for instruction.
• Implements lesson plans and/or units of study using charter embedded instructional strategies.
• Identifies opportunities to integrate the arts and/or technology in planning for instruction.
• Implements lesson plans and/or units of study that integrate the arts and/or technology.
• Provides positive and effective classroom management.
• Contributes to positive school culture.
• Communicates high expectations for all students' achievement.
• Supports co-curricular and/or athletic program opportunities.
• Assists in planning and supervision of activities that support school spirit and student involvement.
• Creates a classroom environment that demonstrates high expectations for student work.
• Works with the Special Education Intervention Team to effectively differentiate lessons for identified students.
• Works within the guidelines and practices of the Child Study Team to recommend and implement intervention strategies to support students at-risk of academic failure.
• Serves as an Advisor for a group of students.
• Makes a good faith effort to attend summer, school-wide or small group professional development.
• Attends all faculty, departmental, and grade-level team meetings.
• Complies with all Oracle Charter School employment policies and procedures.
• Participates in all other duties and tasks as requested and/or outlined in the teacher handbook.

Building/Location: Buffalo, NY

Salary Competitive: Y

Position Status: Full time

Start Date: 4/30/18

Additional Job Information: NYS Certification preferred.

Position is for this year til end of school only.

Contact Person's Name: Katherine Herman

Contact Person's Title: HR/Business Administrator

Contact Person's Phone: 716 362 3188

Contact Person's Email: kherman@oraclecharterschool.org