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Seneca County Opportunity Center SUBSTITUTE INTERVENTION SPECIALIST (Special Education Teacher) in Tiffin, Ohio
SUBSTITUTE INTERVENTION SPECIALIST {#substitute-intervention-specialist align="center"}
(Special Education Teacher) from March through May 2025 {#special-education-teacher-from-march-through-may-2025 align="center"}
Teaching at the School of Opportunity is a rewarding experience! Our school offers children with disabilities ages five through twenty-one comprehensive educational services structured to meet the academic, vocational, social, physical, and emotional needs of the student. Classrooms are capped at 8 students, and each room has two full-time aides with additional 1-on-1 aides as needed.
Programming is designed to maximize each child's level of functioning in all areas of development, to strengthen access to community support and to promote self-advocacy in our students and their families. As a teacher at the School of Opportunity you will join a team dedicated to the mission of improving the lives to those with disabilities.
Intervention Specialists are responsible for establishing and maintaining a safe classroom environment conducive to learning.
Job duties include collaborating with team members to develop IEPs, designing programming and writing lesson plans based on concepts adapted from the general education curriculum, evaluating, assessing, and documenting student performance, completing ETR reports, alternate assessments, and other reports as needed. This position will also supervise and direct teacher assistants.
The successful candidate will support a positive culture and will collaborate with intervention specialists and other team members to create programing designed to address IEP goals, incorporate specialized curricular needs, and improve student skills in communication, self-confidence, socialization, functional living, vocational abilities, leisure pursuits, and community access.
* Education and Experience:*
- Bachelor's degree in education or special education.
- Knowledge or experience with Behavioral Support Strategies or Child Development or current trend of education for children with disabilities.
- One year of experience teaching Special Education or Child Development.
- Experience or training on how to safely move individuals or objects.
- American Sign language.
Job Type: Sub/Hourly/Non-Exempt/Unclassified
* Schedule*:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends, No holidays
* Salary*: $28.64 per hour
Benefits:
- Paid sick leave
- Public Retirement Pension
License/Certification:
- State of Ohio Department of Education Intervention Specialist License or equivalent or ability to obtain a temporary.
- State of Ohio passenger vehicle drivers' license and minimum liability auto insurance coverage.