Alternative Education Position available for the 2024-2025 School Year

Site: Page Alternative Academy

 

Job Description: 

This position requires an individual who enjoys assisting 9th—to 12th-grade students working toward successful credit recovery and/or attending an alternative high school setting. The Academic Support Specialist will provide targeted academic assistance to students in a small, alternative setting. This role involves designing and implementing personalized support strategies, tutoring across multiple subjects, and collaborating with teachers to identify and address individualized learning needs. They will also work to Specialist foster a supportive environment to enhance students' academic performance, confidence, and engagement. 

Reports to: Building Principal, Steve Perdue

Supervises: Assigned Paraprofessionals, Volunteers, and Students

Salary: The base salary step will also be increased by 5% (with a stipend) over the designated Sand Springs teacher pay scale. 

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE: Bachelor of Arts 

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: Valid Oklahoma teaching certificate/Pass an Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation Background check. 

Status: Exempt

Evaluation: Annually Pursuant to Oklahoma Law (TLE)

Physical Demands: This is an overview intended for compliance with the ADA – it is not an exhaustive list of the duties to be performed. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions of a specific position.

Regular Requirements: Stand for extended periods; walk; twist at the neck and trunk; bend and reach with hands and arms overhead, above the shoulder, and horizontally; repetitive use of fingers and hands to grasp and/or operate equipment and demonstrate lessons to students; lift/move up to 15 pounds

Occasional Requirements: Lift/move up to 25 pounds, ability to administer CPR

Visual Requirements: Close, color, peripheral, depth perception, ability to adjust focus

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide one-on-one and group group tutoring in core subjects
• Develop individualized academic support plans for students
• Track student progress and adjust strategies as needed
• Communicate regularly with teachers and parents to support student success
• Help create and maintain a positive, inclusive learning environment

Additional Duties and Responsibilities:
• Establishes and implements classroom procedures designed to maximize student learning in an environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the student's maturity and interests.
• Prepares detailed weekly written lesson plans consistent with Oklahoma Academic Standards designed to teach skills on course curriculum maps and timely submits plans to the assigned principal.
• Complies with and fully implements all Individualized Education Plans and behavioral or academic interventions.
• Maintains a neat and orderly classroom, including the physical arrangement of the room, student records and materials.
• Handles routine classroom discipline fairly.
• Assists the administration in implementing all policies and rules governing student life and conduct, and, for the classroom, develops reasonable rules of classroom behavior and procedure and maintains order in the school fairly and justly.
• Attends and participates in all required meetings and conferences, including professional development and planning meetings, and strives for professional growth.
• Maintains complete and accurate student records, including attendance, performance, and discipline records.
• Provide professional and regular feedback to students and parents, ensuring compliance with all laws and district policies and procedures and communicating regularly with parents using notes, phone calls, conferences, etc.
• Utilizes professional behavior in all school-related interactions.
• Complies with all federal, state, and local laws, board policies, and procedures.
• Uses formative and summative data to guide instruction, plans for student interventions, and communicates progress to parents.
• Provides individualized and small group instruction, adapting the curriculum as needed.
• Provides a technology-enriched environment to support student learning.
• Maintains availability to students and parents for education-related purposes outside the instructional day.
• Plans and coordinates the work of teacher assistants, parents, and volunteers in the classroom and on field trips.
• Collaborates with other professionals to enrich and improve students’ academic progress.

Could be required to substitute for other core teachers occasionally.
• Performs all other tasks as the supervisor may assign