# Special Education Teacher

**Company**: The Menta Group
**Location**: Joliet, IL
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: Full-Time
**Salary**: USD 59,000-70,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

As a Special Education Teacher at The Menta Group, you will have the freedom and ability to educate a small classroom of students in a self-contained setting.

Our social-emotional learning environments offer engaged and inquiry-based academics combined with a P.B.I.S. structure.

### Responsibilities

- Teach all subjects in a classroom setting

- Provide a differentiated learning environment

- Work collaboratively with staff, including curriculum and clinical staff to yield positive results for the students

- Gain support on-campus from other teachers, administrators, curriculum staff, clinical staff, and various support staff that are Menta employees

- Have the freedom and ability to personalize learning

- Provide a social-emotional learning environment

- Have a classroom size of around 10 students with paraprofessional support in the classroom

### Qualifications

- IL PEL (Professional Educator's License; out-of-state applicants will need to apply for IL certification) with LBS1 Certification or Other Teacher Certification (Non-Substitute)

- Must be flexible in the ability to teach multiple grade levels as student populations change

- Ability to teach a classroom of students within all basic instructional areas

- Ability to work with youth with emotional/behavioral/academic difficulties

- Ability to be flexible, work in teams and creatively problem solve

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to speak and write clearly and persuasively

### Compensation & Benefits

- Salary: USD 59,000-70,000 per-year-salary

- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance

- Paid time off (PTO)

- 403(b) retirement plan with an employer match

- Negotiable Sign-On Bonus for Certified Special Education Teachers

### Additional Information

Menta's Thompson Instructional Center is anchored in the principle of the '3-C Ready' initiative, with a tailored approach to fostering readiness for College, Career, and Citizenship.

## Skills

### Required
- Special Education
- Teaching
- Social-Emotional Learning
- PBIS
- Classroom Management

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