Education Specialist (Teacher)

About the Role

This is an entry-level to senior-level professional teaching position. Accountable for developing curriculum and lesson plans, and planning and implementing course content and methods to meet the needs of state facility clients in a facility of the Missouri Division of Youth Services. This position instructs youth in elementary or secondary school subjects, and related special education work. Working with the Division of Youth Services involves creating a safe, therapeutic, and educational environment for youth in day treatment and residential programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement group and individual education plans.
• Plan class work and prepare learning materials.
• Function as part of a teaching team and assist in developing, implementing, and evaluating individual educational plans.
• Confer with parents and/or students.
• Adhere to State and Federal testing guidelines and mandates.
• Prepare reports regarding each client’s adjustment and progress.
• Maintain scholastic and attendance records.
• Administer and score pre/post tests.
• Provide Awareness Supervision to youth, with responsibility for their safety, personal conduct, care, education, and therapy. Awareness Supervision is defined as the ability to see, be seen by, and to hear and be heard by youth at all times in order to be capable of swift, appropriate response.
• Maintain security, including intervention and/or participate fully in physical restraints of youth during emergencies or altercations to prevent escapes and gain physical control of youth.
• Dispense medications to youth.
• Role-model appropriate behaviors.
• Transport and escort youth in everyday and emergency situations.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Empathetic
• Nonjudgmental
• Cooperative
• Encouraging
• Able-bodied
• Professional
• Respectful
• Ability to communicate clearly, honestly and openly.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license.

Qualifications

Option 1

• A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in appropriate coursework or in the field of Education.
• A valid teaching certificate.

Option 2

• A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• Ability to obtain an appropriate teaching certificate through the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
• Applicants who do not possess a valid teaching certificate at the time of hire will be required to initiate the process of obtaining a substitute certificate within seven days of employment and an appropriate Missouri teaching certificate within ninety days of employment.

Option 3

• A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• Four or more years of post-baccalaureate special education teaching experience in a school accredited by a governing agency.
• Possession of a valid special education teaching certificate.

Option 4

• A Master's degree from an accredited college or university.
• Two or more years of post-baccalaureate special education teaching experience in a school accredited by a governing agency.
• Possession of a valid special education teaching certificate.

A governing agency is an entity such as the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education or the North Central Association on Accreditation and School Improvement.