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This position is open only to Colorado state residents.
Please note: This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies at the locations below.
This position will receive a short-staffing temporary pay differential of 3.17% from through June 30th 2024
Division of Youth Services – Platte Valley Youth Services Center
About the Division of Youth Services: The Division of Youth Services (DYS) provides a continuum of residential and non-residential services that encompass juvenile detention, commitment, and parole. DYS is the agency statutorily mandated to provide for the care and supervision of youth committed by the District Court to the custody of the Colorado Department of Human Services. The Division operates fifteen secure facilities that serve youth between the ages of 10 and 21, who are pre-adjudicated, sentenced, or committed. The Division also contracts with numerous private residential and non-residential service providers throughout the State. For pre-adjudicated youth, the Division is also responsible for the management and oversight of Colorado Youth Detention Continuum, a State-funded, locally administered program that provides services to youth at risk of further progressing into the juvenile justice system. In addition to residential programming, the Division administers juvenile parole services throughout the State.
We invite you to explore the DYS website and learn about the services provided to youth, families, and local communities in the State of Colorado at: https://www.colorado.gov/cdhs/dys
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Description of Job
About The Work Unit
This work unit exists to provide academic, vocational, and other education-related services to youth in institutional facilities, to provide professional consultation to community programs which serve DYS youth, and to establish and maintain collaboration with other state and community agencies that provide or monitor education services.
About The Position
This position exists to provide classroom instruction in English Language Arts and related subjects to include Social Emotional Learning topics to committed youth in a safe and trauma-informed environment. The teacher takes responsibility for knowledge of current state standards in the area of English Language Arts, in the area of technology instruction, and related subjects including best practice and research in teaching and learning.
Primary Job Duties
- Establishes and maintains an appropriate classroom setting through the use of effective classroom management skills and engagement strategies specific to student need.
- Assesses new and continuing students using multiple assessment methods and collecting multiple pieces of evidence of learning.
- Prepares daily and unit lesson plans that are aligned with state standards and the critical skills needed; designs and implements a variety of assessment tools to evaluate student progress that correlate to standards based education and with appropriate rigor.
- Implements a variety of research-based education strategies (including technology) to accommodate multi-age/multi-level students.
- Ensures that the DYS instructional framework is followed with daily learning objectives and relevant learning with appropriate assessments while meeting the needs of all youth.
- Selects behavior and classroom management techniques to apply within the framework of DYS.
- Ensuring effective accommodations are followed for special education students while also communicating growth and data needed for progress monitoring.
- Subbing in other classrooms as required.
- Use the technology appropriate and as expected to design, upload information and lessons while taking attendance daily and grading work appropriately.
Examples Of Regular Position Related Duties
- Determines the level of complexity and standards to use for the classroom instruction based on the needs of each student and highest priorities.
- Determines the information to communicate with necessary stakeholders within a limited time frame.
- Determines proactive positive behavioral interventions to implement within the classroom.
- Decides the themes and the topics used to engage youth.
- Determines how to integrate real-world career skills into all lessons.
- Assesses how to create and use rubrics for student work.
- Student skill levels within a classroom will range widely and there may be the need to plan various lessons within a period.
- Plan groups and use correct assessment information. The principal as instructional leader gives suggestions and additional curricular materials.
- Students may have interpersonal issues within a classroom that results in classroom disruption which is a challenge with classroom management and instruction. The instructor needs to determine which tools to use to address student behavior.
Additional Responsibilities
- Meets informally and in scheduled meetings with the Central Education Office members, principal, treatment providers and other teachers to review student and school progress.
- Develop comprehensive plans for implementation of the subject matter in line with the education goals and in alignment with school development plans and quality standards.
- Participate in professional and staff safety development and apply learning accordingly.
- Assure appropriate boundaries and effective presentation in the classroom and workplace.
- Use data effectively and with MTSS processes, progress monitoring, educational advocacy, and multidisciplinary team meetings (MDT).
- Monthly reviews of content to principal.
- Assist in the safety and security of the school and facility by supervising residents as needed and providing immediate assistance as necessary within the facility.
- Consistently knowing and following policy and procedures of the Division of Youth Services and the facility to include Implementation Procedures as well as safety procedures for classrooms and youth.
- Adhere to the trauma-informed culture and expectations.
- Know and use Motivational Interviewing, Sanctuary Model to include small group processes and Restorative Justice language and frameworks.
Essential Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Knowledge of effective research-based instructional strategies
- Understandings of classroom-based behavioral interventions
- Able to build rapport with students while maintaining boundaries
- Experience with urban and at-risk populations
- Secondary school experience
- Education and Training
- Interpersonal Skills
- Oral Communication
- Oral Comprehension
- Problem Sensitivity & Solving
- Safety and Security
- Technology enhance instruction
Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights
Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions Of Employment & Appeal Rights
Please attach transcripts and proof of qualified credentials
Education
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in the field education or a similar degree type.
AND
License Requirement
- Current, valid Initial or Professional Teacher license issued by the Colorado Department of Education.
Substitutions:
- Current, valid Interim Teacher license, or Temporary Educator Eligibility Authorization will substitute for the Colorado Initial or Professional Teacher license.
- For academic teaching assignments only: Current, valid Colorado Adult Basic Education Authorization, Initial Special Services, or Special Services license will substitute for the Colorado Initial or Professional Teacher license.
- For vocational teaching assignments only: The educational and experience requirements of the Colorado Community College System for the specific vocational credential related to the work assigned to the position will substitute for the degree and license requirements.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Dual endorsements or documentation of ability to be Highly Qualified in multiple content areas.
- Experience working with at-risk or adjudicated youth
- Experience with differentiated instruction; developing lessons/curriculum and providing differentiated instruction
- Proficient use of assessment data to inform instructional practice
Conditions of Employment:
- Must be 21 years old or older
- CDE teacher license or emergency authorization qualification
- Some travel may be required to attend a professional development or training within the state
- Continued employment is contingent upon successful completion of the DYS Pre-service Training Academy, Field Training Program (FTO) and mandatory annual training in all subject areas.
- Must pass a Colorado Bureau of Investigations and a Federal Bureau of Investigations background check as a condition of employment. Included in the background check is a current and/or previous employer check. Your current and/or previous employers within the past 10 years at a minimum must be listed on your job application (most recent in descending order), even if the job or duties are unrelated to the position for which you are applying. Incomplete employer information (address, phone number, and supervisor) or omission of former employers may result in a disqualification of your application.
- Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must disclose the information on the application and provide an explanation why the prior termination or resignation should not disqualify the applicant from the current position. Absent extraordinary circumstances, prior disciplinary termination or resignation in lieu of termination will disqualify the applicant from future State employment with CDHS.
Appeal Rights
If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for this position, you may file an appeal with the State Personnel Board or request a review by the State Personnel Director.
An appeal or review must be submitted on the official appeal form, signed by you or your representative. This form must be delivered to the State Personnel Board by email ([email protected]), postmarked in US Mail or hand delivered (1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver CO 80203), or faxed (303.866.5038) within ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgement of the department’s action.
For more information about the appeals process, the official appeal form, and how to deliver it to the State Personnel Board; go to spb.colorado.gov; contact the State Personnel Board for assistance at (303) 866-3300; or refer to 4 Colorado Code of Regulations (CCR) 801-1, State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director’s Administrative Procedures, Chapter 8, Resolution of Appeals and Disputes, at spb.colorado.gov under Rules.
