LONG-TERM SUB - Special Education Teacher - Secondary
Company: North Smithfield School Department
Location: North Smithfield
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
NORTH SMITHFIELD SCHOOL DEPARTMENT JOB DESCRIPTION TITLE:Special
Education Teacher QUALIFICATIONS: R. I. Certification as required.
Master’s in Special Education (area of concentration) preferred
REPORTS TO: Director of Pupil Personnel Services Building Principal
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: School Year and/or as required. All conditions
per contractual agreement with School Committee EVALUATION:
Evaluation annually in accordance with provisions of the School
Committee Policy on Evaluation. JOB GOAL: To provide a learning
environment for moderately, severely and profoundly handicapped
which will maximize and insure growth in all developmental areas in
order to fulfill the student’s physical, social, emotional and
intellectual potential. RHODE ISLAND PROFESSIONAL TEACHING
STANDARDS: Standard 1: Teachers create learning experiences using a
broad base of general knowledge that reflects an understanding of
the nature of the communities and world in which we live. Standard
2: Teachers have a deep content knowledge base sufficient to create
learning experiences that reflect an understanding of central
concepts, vocabulary, structures, and tools of inquiry of the
disciplines/content areas they teach. Standard 3: Teachers create
instructional opportunities that reflect an understanding of how
children learn and develop. Standard 4: Teachers create
instructional opportunities that reflect a respect for the
diversity of learners and an understanding of how students differ
in their approaches to learning. Standard 5: Teachers create
instructional opportunities to encourage all students’ development
of critical thinking, problem solving, performance skills, and
literacy across content areas. Standard 6: Teachers create a
supportive learning environment that encourages appropriate
standards of behavior, positive social interaction, active
engagement in learning, and self-motivation. Standard 7: Teachers
work collaboratively with all school personnel, families, and the
broader community to create a professional learning community and
environment that supports the improvement of teaching, learning,
and student achievement. Standard 8: Teachers use effective
communication as the vehicle through which students explore,
conjecture, discuss, and investigate new ideas. Standard 9:
Teachers use appropriate formal and informal assessment strategies
with individuals and groups of students to determine the impact of
instruction on learning, to provide feedback, and to plan future
instruction. Standard 10: Teachers reflect on their practice and
assume responsibility for their own professional development by
actively seeking and participating in opportunities to learn and
grow as professionals. Standard 11: Teachers maintain professional
standards guided by legal and ethical principles. RHODE ISLAND
EDUCATOR CODE OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY: Set of commitments
which guide professional conduct in all situations with
professional and ethical implications. The Code embraces the
fundamental belief that the student is the foremost reason for the
existence of the profession. Responsibility to Students: Rhode
Island Educators’ first commitment is to ensuring that all students
achieve at the high levels needed to lead fulfilling and productive
lives, to succeed in academic and employment settings, and to
contribute to society. Responsibility to Self: Rhode Island
Educators are committed to establishing high professional standards
for their practice and striving to meet these standards through
their individual performance. Responsibility to Colleagues and the
Profession: Rhode Island Educators are committed to work with
school and district colleagues and as members of professional
communities to establish and implement initiatives that will
further student learning. Responsibility to Parents and the
Community: Rhode Island Educators are committed to collaborate with
families and communities to offer a quality education to all
students. Responsibility to Rhode Island Board of Regents: Rhode
Island Educators demonstrate a commitment to Rhode Island standards
for educator quality through certification requirements and support
for the implementation of state initiatives within their districts.
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES: To assist individual programmatic
needs for each student utilizing criteria referenced assessment as
a baseline in all developmental areas; receptive and expressive
language, fine and gross motor, cognitive, self-help,
person/social, vocational interests and aptitudes. To develop
individual programs in all areas for each student utilizing a
behavioral approach with a data collection system. These programs
should be designed to teach all the life skills, functional skills,
concepts, actions, and responses required for adaptive performance
in all the post-school environments to which the student will be
exposed. To implement a process whereby all skills acquired in a
structured behavioral classroom approach will be integrated and
generalized into other activities, experiences and environments so
that they are maintained. To evaluate data, update and monitor each
student’s program to insure the maximum rate of skill acquisition
as well as maintenance of skills. Assume all required
responsibilities as might be assigned by the Director of Pupil
Personnel Services and Building Administrator. It is the
responsibility of the educator to comply with the Rhode Island
Right to Read Act requiring educators to exhibit either proficiency
in or awareness of the knowledge and practices of the Science of
Reading ad Structured Literacy.
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