Special Education Teacher , Great Oaks Academy MN for 2026-2027 (1.0 FTE)

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Special Education Teacher Job Posting
Title: Full-Time Special Education Teacher (1 FTE) Date Created/Updated: 2/022/2026
Classification: School Year Instructional Staff Reports to: Special Education Coordinator
The mission of Great Oaks Academy is to cultivate the minds and hearts of our students through a classical, liberal arts education, with instruction that is rigorous, literature-rich, wondrous, and virtuous in a disciplined and engaging environment.
Our vision is to graduate young adults who:
- Are fully prepared for the rigors of college and career
- Value truth, beauty, and goodness
- Possess a lifelong passion for learning
- Are active participants in their communities
- Recognize the value of their contributions
The four pillars of Great Oaks Academy are Rigor, Virtue, Literature and Wonder.
Great Oaks Academy is seeking individuals who are interested in providing an environment of learning that entails bringing a rich curriculum of language, literature, ancient history, world studies and physical activity to every student. The school aims to challenge each student with a classical education as a foundation for empowering and scaffolding inquiry. Great Oaks Academy is committed to raising up students to be strong, reflective thinkers and morally responsible citizens.
This particular job posting reflects the duties and responsibilities of a Special Education Teacher providing instruction and case management to students that have been identified as requiring special education services through an evaluation process.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Plans curriculum and prepares lessons and other instructional materials to meet individual needs of students while considering state and school requirements, and physical, emotional, and educational levels of development.
- Works collaboratively with classroom instructors to ensure continuity of curriculum adaptation to meet student needs.
- Confers with parents, administrators, testing coordinators, service providers, and others to develop an Individual Educational Program (IEP) for students.
- Conducts comprehensive assessments to determine eligibility for special education services.
- Instructs students in all identified academic subjects.
- Creates learning materials geared to each student’s ability and interest.
- Instructs students to improve sensory-motor and perceptual-motor development, perception, memory, language, cognition, and social and emotional development.
- Works with students to increase motivation, consistently reinforce learning, continually assess level of functioning, and provide continuous feedback to students for all learning activities.
- Works with parents/guardians to accept and develop skills in dealing with a student's disability.
- Observes and complies with due process timelines and documentation expectations.
- Participates in building leadership activities and being a team player.
- Normal and regular attendance.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
None
Required Education, License, Experience and Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree of related subject from accredited university.
- Valid MN teaching license (K-12 Special Education), ABS licensure or dual licensure that includes ASD
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with parents, students, teachers, staff, administrators, agency personnel and others.
- Must be self-motivated, self-directed, collaborative and flexible.
- Must clear pre-employment background check and substance abuse screening.
Desirable Qualifications:
- Previous special education experience.
- Classical Education teaching experience.
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to operate a computer, copier, printer, fax and phone.
- Must be able to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, balance, stoop, sit on the floor, kneel and lift 50 pounds.
Benefits:
- This is a full-time regular school year position that is eligible for the Great Oaks Academy’s benefit program. The benefit program includes health, dental, long-term care, long-term disability and life insurance, TRA retirement program, and PTO.
- Great Oaks Academy does not discriminate against any person based on “race,” color, ethnicity, sex, age, national origin, ancestry, religion or creed, status with regard to public assistance, sexual orientation, disability, intellectual ability, prior measures of achievement of aptitude, athletic ability, or for any other basis that would be unlawful for a public or charter school.
- Cover letter. (Please tell us how you learned about Great Oaks Academy and indicate your salary requirements.)
- Statement of your educational philosophy (in 500 words or fewer)
- Resume/curriculum vitae
- Three professional (or academic, if a recent graduate) references. Please include email address and phone number for each reference.
SCHOOL BACKGROUND: We are committed to building a small school community with rigorous academics, an emphasis on developing virtue while encouraging students’ natural sense of wonder. We believe that great stories are powerful teaching tools, that studying history chronologically can inspire wonder and lead to virtue, and that rigor means appropriate challenges for each student.
Great Oaks Academy opened in the fall of 2020 and currently serve nearly 800 students from Kindergarten to 10th grade between two campuses in Farmington and Eagan. We will add a grade each year until we are a full K-12 Academy.
For more information on Classical Education:
"The Lost Tools of Learning" by Dorothy Sayers
"What is Classical Education?” by Susan Wise Bauer