Math/Science Teacher

• Provide a learning environment to motivate youth to take responsibility for their education.
• Prepare daily lesson plans and instruct groups, providing in-depth attention to students as necessary.
• Assess each student’s learning style; design and implement curriculum, instructional strategies, and materials appropriate for the youth.
• Communicate, orally and in writing, all appropriate information, both within the classroom and outside the classroom (in the log and in youth charts) and to relevant outside agencies.
• Stimulate interest and cooperation in individual and group classes and activities and observe youth behavior in response to treatment efforts.
• Ensure attendance of students in all classes and other activities and check on normative behavior.
• Complete all necessary paperwork to ensure proper recording of student progress, including daily attendance records and progress reports for grading periods and Individual Education Plans.
• Maintain order in the classroom by providing classroom expectations to students.
• Maintain emergency lesson plans for use by substitutes.
• Maintain proper norms and security of youth and provide crisis intervention as necessary.
• Supervise youth in order to observe or effect changes in their social behavior, and to maintain the security of facility and grounds for community protection.
• Participate in the treatment of the student through observation, interaction, scoring, limit setting, and implementation of treatment plans; assist in the development of positive peer culture.
• Report significant changes in social behavior and make recommendations for changes by participating in Treatment Team meetings.
• Escort students to work, mealtime, recreation, education activities, and participate in their supervision and instruction.
• Limited one-to-one counseling.
• Give basic instruction in work, recreation, and housekeeping activities.
• Abide by The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (42 USC & 201 et seq.).
• All other duties as assigned.

• Job knowledge/skills.
• Productivity.
• Dependability.
• Interpersonal relationships.
• Initiative.
• Time management.
• Problem-solving/decision-making.
• Self-development.

• Youth.
• All facility staff.
• Court and referring agency staff.
• Student’s family.

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