Education Specialist (Teacher)

About the Role

Working with the Division of Youth Services involves creating a safe, therapeutic, and educational environment for youth in day treatment and residential programs. This is an entry-level to senior-level professional teaching position.

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.
• 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.

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.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Empathy
• Nonjudgmental attitude
• Cooperation
• Encouraging demeanor
• Physical ability (able-bodied)
• Professionalism
• Respectfulness
• Ability to communicate clearly, honestly, and openly
• 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 without a valid teaching certificate at hire must initiate the process for a substitute certificate within seven days and a 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.