Teacher of Special Education
Hainesport, NJFull-time$58–77K/yrPosted 5mo agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
Legacy Treatment Services is hiring a Teacher of Special Education. Legacy Treatment Services is seeking a full-time Teacher of the Handicapped or Teacher of Students with Disabilities for a permanent placement in Hainesport, NJ. The teacher will provide direct instruction to students according to their Individual Education Plans and must hold a New Jersey State certification in the relevant area, being highly qualified in instruction.
Key focus areas include Actively participate in ongoing quality improvement activities, Maintain accurate daily attendance records and perform other record keeping functions, and Maintain appropriate classroom discipline and provision of an atmosphere conducive to learning.
Successful candidates bring New Jersey State Certification as Teacher of the Handicapped, New Jersey State Certification as Teacher of Students with Disabilities, and Highly Qualified in Instruction. Important skills include Quality Improvement Activities, Record Keeping, Classroom Discipline, Individual Education Plan Development, Instructional Equipment And Materials Selection, and Instructional Equipment And Materials Ordering.
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Full job description
Salary Range $57,500.00 - $76,500.00 Salary/year
Level Entry
Position Type Full Time
Job Shift Day
Education Level 4 Year Degree
Category Education
Description
We are currently seeking a Teacher of the Handicapped or Teacher of Students with Disabilities for a full-time permanent placement position in the Hainesport, NJ area. The teacher will provide direct instruction to students in accordance with each of their Individual Education Plans. Candidates must hold a New Jersey State certification as a Teacher of the Handicapped, Teacher of Students with Disabilities, and be highly qualified in the area of instruction.
Responsibilities:
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Actively participate in ongoing quality improvement activities including but not limited to: serving as a member of a quality improvement team, customer input, incident/accident and client grievance review, peer record review and program evaluation/quality improvement projects
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Maintain accurate daily attendance records and perform other record keeping functions
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Maintain appropriate classroom discipline and provision of an atmosphere conducive to learning
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Participate in the development of each child’s Individual Education Plan
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Selection and ordering of appropriate instructional equipment and materials
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Prepare quarterly evaluations, Progress Reports and Report Cards for each student in relation to his/her IEP goals and objectives
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Attend staff meetings and meetings with parents and/or school district personnel
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Maintain a neat, clean and orderly classroom and properly secure the classroom at the end of each school day
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Communicate students’ daily performance to residential and clinical staff
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Oversee Paraprofessionals assigned to their classroom and ensure that they comply with school policy and procedures
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Deliver curriculum to students utilizing a learning center model of instruction, whereby students are provided with individualized and small group instruction and remediation
Hours:
Full time; follows the school calendar Pay rate is determined by degree level. Extra pay based upon confirmed years of teaching.
This position also has the following benefits:
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Paid time off and holidays per the school contract
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Medical, vision, dental and life insurance
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403(b) employee participation and employer match
Qualifications
Qualifications:
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Must hold a New Jersey State certification as a Teacher of the Handicapped or Teacher of Students with Disabilities
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Must be highly qualified in the area of instruction
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Excellent interpersonal and child management skills
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Must maintain yearly 12 hour requirements in behavior management, suicide prevention, substance abuse, and HIV and sexuality
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Must have CARI-CHRI, physical and PPD test completed prior to or upon hire
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Must have physical repeated every three years
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Must attend cultural competence trainings when available and attend ongoing trainings related to population served
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Must possess a valid driver’s license
Legacy Treatment Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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How this job compares
Set against the 4,673 open Teacher jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 1, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$58–77K/yr
- US median$54–73K/yr675 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $67K, is 5% above the US median midpoint ($64K) — in the middle half of Teacher salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 106 open Teacher jobs in New Jersey and 4,673 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New Jersey
- Gateway Community Action Partnership24 open
- Goddard School12 open
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- Experience
- Teacher postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (805 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,737 of the 4,673 open Teacher jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 1, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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