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Coollaborative / Team Teacher

The Coollaborative or Team Teacher:

  • Provides individual and direct services to young children with disabilities
  • Coordinates the implementation of IEPs.
  • Spends time in various groups with children with disabilities, each day or each week
  • Promotes a high quality, inclusive education where students with disabilities are able to access the general early childhood curriculum by introducing strategies like:
    • Modifications and adaptations to the general curricula
    • Coordination of children’s schedules and services
    • Provision of supports, special accommodations or supplementary aides
  • Offers indirect services to other service providers including general early childhood teacher

Academic & Experience Requirements are the same as for Early Childhood Special Education Teachers