# Education Specialist K-5 (Special Education Teacher Mild/Moderate) 2026 -2027 School Year

**Company**: High Tech High
**Location**: San Diego, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: Contract Certificated
**Salary**: USD 67,525.48-120,342.2 per-year-salary
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

We are seeking an Education Specialist (Special Education Teacher Mild/Moderate) to serve as an essential support to meet the needs of students with disabilities in the general education setting.

The ideal candidate would possess the following competencies:

- Inform and communicate effectively with students, families and staff

- Ability to demonstrate content knowledge, including California Common Core Standards

- Exhibits knowledge of student cognitive development and various learning styles

- Organization skills

- Presentation and large group discussion skills

- Ability to provide strong emotional support to students and families

- Ability to manage diversity

- Speak and write succinctly using plain language

Responsibilities include:

- Providing individualized instruction and support to students with special needs in a general education setting

- Supporting general education teachers by developing related goals and objectives, planning, and implementation strategies to meet the needs of students with IEPs

- Providing accommodations for students with individual needs to encourage learning and success

- Identifying and supporting students' social, emotional and behavioral learning needs

- Implementing Project-based Learning techniques and strategies

- Facilitating and designing effective group work amongst students

- Fostering student growth through semi-annual Student-led Conferences (SLC) and Presentations of Learning (POL)

- Scaffolding instructional activities that facilitate engaging and appropriate learning opportunities

- Creating relevant and authentic learning experiences

- Providing opportunities for student engagement through 'Voice and Choice'

- Implementing backward design to align all lessons, activities and assessments

- Designing formal and informal assessments that measure student progress

Benefits include:

- Medical, dental and vision insurance (elective)

- AFLAC supplemental insurance (elective)

- Section 125 Flexible Spending Account (FSA) (elective)

- California State Teacher Retirement Plan (CalSTRS) (mandatory)

- 403(b) Plan and group life insurance (elective)

- No cost after-care for K-8 HTH students of staff members; and

- No cost Teacher Induction for certificated staff

## Skills

### Required
- Special Education
- IEP development
- Project-based Learning
- Classroom management
- Communication

### Nice to have
- English Learner Authorization
- CLAD
- California Common Core Standards

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