Special Education ASPIRE Teacher - Sage Creek High School at Carlsbad Unified

Job Summary

Job Summary

Provides an instructional program for students who are identified as having a disability which impacts the student to the extent that he/she is unable to be appropriately served in a less restrictive environment. Provides specific remedial instruction and teaches students means of enhancing their strengths. Serves as a consultant to parents and staff in all areas related to the special day class program. ASPIRE is an acronym for Academic and Social Pragmatic Independence for Readiness in Education. The ASPIRE program offers a highly individualized, modified, functional and academic-skill based curriculum delivered primarily in the special education setting, with mainstreaming into the general education setting to the maximum extent appropriate. The ASPIRE program provides Specialized Academic Instruction (SAI) in order to work on academic, social, and behavioral goals that cannot be met within the general education setting due to a documented disability. The program is specifically designed to consist of an array of researched based supports such as ABA, visual supports, communication strategies, and behavioral techniques to address the needs of students educationally classified with Autism, as well as other students with related needs determined to benefit from the program. While the ASPIRE classrooms are self-contained, the program functions to provide a continuum of support to incorporate each student into the general education environment for activities that are considered appropriate (socialization, peer modeling, academics, etc.), based on each child’s Individualized Education Program (IEP). The ultimate goal for the program is to intervene and provide social, behavioral, and pragmatic remediation that will allow a child to mainstream back into the general education setting for the majority of his/her school day.

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