Adaptive PE Teacher

The Summer School Adaptive PE Teacher develops and provides specialized instruction to meet the unique needs of students with disabilities; Evaluates and assesses student progress against instructional objectives; follow IDEA State mandated due process procedures and functions as Case Manager to assigned IEP students.

Qualifications:

• Professional Educator License (PEL).
• Endorsement in Physical Education.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Facilitates students’ learning in correlation with the Illinois Learning Standards.
• Provides research-based specialized instruction to address the instructional goals and objectives contained within each student’s IEP.
• Communicates the essential questions to clarify the learning goals for each lesson.
• Configures lessons and select instructional strategies with the intent of ensuring that all students can answer a lesson’s essential question by its conclusion.
• Designs daily lessons that incorporate Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and/or Reading (WICOR) to ensure authentically rigorous learning experiences for all students.
• Designs lessons to include three or more unique learning tasks for students, at least one of which includes whole-class verbal participation.
• Create and nurture supportive, student-centered classroom communities that promote personal empowerment, academic growth, and social-emotional well-being of all learners.
• Creates an effective learning environment through functional and visual tools.
• Manage student behavior for the purpose of providing a safe and optimal learning environment.
• Provides students with regular opportunities to collaborate with peers, move with purpose, and experience diverse instructional strategies so that they are physically and intellectually engaged as learners.