Position Type: ESY Summer Program – ABA/Lifeskills Teacher Date Posted: 05/12/2025 Location: All School Facilities Date Available: 06/12/2025 Closing Date: Until Filled
Extended School Year Posting (Special Education)
Job Description: Ansonia Public Schools is looking to fill the positions of ABA/Lifeskills Teacher for ESY.
• Implements effective researched-supported instructional strategies for basic sequences of skills in the academic, social, and vocational curricular areas; including techniques for modifying instructional methods, curricular materials, and the environment to meet learners’ needs that are appropriate to those learners’ ages and skill levels.
• Uses instructional time effectively and efficiently; while facilitating the integration of related services into the instructional program.
• Chooses and implements instructional techniques and strategies that promote successful transitions for individuals with disabilities. Creates varied opportunities for all students to use effective written, verbal, nonverbal, and visual communication appropriate to each student.
• Understands assessment as an educational process including how to interpret information obtained from standardized and non-standardized assessment, analyze and use to develop instruction and goals for individual students.
• Implements a variety of procedures for identifying student's learning characteristics and needs, monitoring student progress, and evaluating learning strategies and instructional approaches.
• Implements accommodations and modification as identified for individual students on national, state, local and classroom assessments.
• Implements strategies for assessing students’ skills within curricular areas including academic, social and vocational.
• Implements classroom and individual behavioral management plans and actively participates in functional behavioral assessments and behavioral intervention plans for students.
• Understands and effectively utilizes computerized web-based systems for documentation procedures/communication, goal development and modification, progress monitoring, performance assessment, accommodations/modifications, program supports and overall IEP information.
Any other tasks as assigned by the ESY Coordinator, Director of Extended Day Programs or Director of Special Services. Applicants must possess all required certifications required by the Connecticut SDE for special education.
Qualifications: 165/265 Certification is required.
Salary: $40.00/hour.
Schedule: Dates: June 16th through July 24th, Monday-Thursday (No session 6/19). Hours: 8:15-11:45am Mandatory PD: June 12th, 8:00-10:00am Location: Prendergast School
Interested candidates please complete the internal application, attach certifications and email a letter of intent to Sherri Marquardt, Director of Extended Day (smarquardt@ansonia.org). Please indicate which position you are requesting to apply for in your letter of intent.