Position Title: Early Childhood Special Education Teacher
Job ID#: 1732
Reports to: Student Services Coordinator
Date Available: 2024-2025 School Year
Contract: 186 days
Crete Public Schools is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Early Childhood Special Education Teacher, serving ages birth to five, for the 2024-2025 school year. Benefits include paid health insurance, long term disability insurance, and personal and sick leave. This position is open until filled.
Essential Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree with Special Education Early Intervention endorsement OR Master's Degree in Early Childhood Special Education
• Nebraska Teaching Certificate with appropriate endorsement
• Satisfactory completion of criminal background check

Essential Job Functions:

• Excellent skills in oral and written communication
• Skills in leadership, interpersonal relations, organization, prioritization, problem solving and conflict management, assessment and evaluation
• Ability to work with students, staff, administration, and parents

Essential Requirements:

• Collaborate with parents, administrators, and other professionals to develop Individual Family Services Plans designed to promote children's development and address family needs
• Partner with parents, teachers, and administrators in order to provide home based early intervention services as documented in IFSPs
• Prepare, schedule and conduct evaluations, MDT meetings, annual and periodic IFSPs
• Develop a working knowledge of students on caseload as it pertains to providing early intervention services
• Develop, implement, and monitor strategies to meet the needs of infants and toddlers with developmental delays
• Collaborate with families, services coordinators, and preschool staff to plan and implement individual transition plans for children turning three
• Work with interpreters to effectively communicate with families
• Comply with NDE Rule 52 guidelines
• Maintain accurate and complete records as required by law, district policy, and administrative regulations
• Participate in regular team meetings including collaborative coaching using the primary service provider model
• Serve as a model for students and families
• Relate with staff, parents and community through positive professional cooperation
• Participate on committees as required
• Participate in professional growth through goal setting and attendance of district professional development sessions, approved out of district professional learning opportunities, and/or advance course work at institutions of higher learning aligned with professional growth goals
• Remain current with best practices in early intervention evaluation and service provision including attending required trainings and fidelity checks
• Periodic evaluations according to State and Board policy and procedures
• Follow the policies, regulations, procedures, and expectations established by the Board and administration.

Other Responsibilities:

• Perform other tasks or duties as assigned by the Superintendent or Principal.

Essential Functions:

• The essential functions of each employee's position includes:

(1) regular, dependable in-person attendance on the job;
(2) the ability to perform the identified tasks and to possess and utilize the identified knowledge, skills, and abilities and to perform the identified work activities; and
(3) the ability to perform the physical requirements of their specific job description.
Working Conditions:

• Environment: Inside and Outside
• Mental Demands: Ability to work under pressure and to meet timelines
• The ability to perform the following identified physical requirements:

Physical Requirements
E = Essential
NE = Non-Essential
Occasional - up to 33% of time
NE
Occasional - up to 33% of time, absolutely essential to the job
E
Frequent - between 34%-66% of time
E
Continuous - over 66% of time
E
Stamina
Sitting
X
Walking
Standing
Sprinting/Running
X
Flexibility
Bending or twisting at the neck more than the average person
Bending or twisting at the trunk more than the average person
Squatting/Stooping/Kneeling
Reaching above the head
Reaching forward
Repeating the same hand, arm or finger motion many times (For
example: typing, data entry, etc.)
Activities
Climbing (on ladders, into large trucks/vehicles, etc.)
X
Hand/grip strength
Driving on the job
Typing non-stop
Use of Arms and Hands
Manual dexterity (using a wrench or screwing a lid on a jar)
Finger dexterity (typing or putting a nut on a bolt)
Lifting Requirements
Lifting up to 10 pounds (Mark all that apply)
Floor to waist
Waist to shoulder
Shoulder to overhead
X
Lifting 11 to 25 pounds (Mark all that apply)
Lifting 26 to 50 pounds (Mark all that apply)
Floor to waist
X
Waist to shoulder
X
Pushing/Pulling
25 to 50 pounds
51 to 75 pounds
Carrying
10 to 25 pounds
25 to 50 pounds
X