Job Description:

Job ID: 4696 | Posted: 11/6/2026 | Position type: Special Education/Special Education (General) | Location: Freedom Elementary School | Full-time, Mon-Fri | Salary: follows the 2025-2027 Teacher Salary Schedule

Position Title: Elementary Special Education Teacher

Location: Freedom Elementary School

Department: Special Education

Reports To: Director of Special Education

Term: Ongoing 188-day contract beginning with the 2026-2027 school year (prorated depending on start date)

Schedule: Mon-Fri Full-time

Salary: Position follows the 2025-2027 Teacher Salary Schedule

SUMMARY: The Special Education Teacher provides instruction for learners who are enrolled in special education programs while creating an engaging, nurturing, and safe learning environment that allows learners to develop their physical, social, and emotional wellbeing. The teacher provides interventions and supports in academics, future ready skills, knowledge, and dispositions, follows the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) procedures, and completes compliant paperwork to support learners with disabilities.

WHY WEST FARGO? WFPS offers new special education teacher supports, including a support framework, training scope and sequence, and a pathway to SPED licensure.

To Apply: Please complete the application and provide a letter of interest, a resume, and three letters of recommendation. Please also include your transcripts and a copy of your licensure through ESPB, if available. Apply at: https://www.applitrack.com/westfargo/onlineapp/default.aspx?all=1

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (summary): collaborate with the special education team, grade-level educators, and paraprofessionals; communicate IEPs, assessment results, and eligibility following state and district guidelines; deliver direct instruction, guided practice, and independent practice; design standards-aligned assessments; plan individual and small group programming based on learner data; use specialized teaching techniques, interventions, and assessments; use district curriculum and behavioral plans; maintain accurate progress records; attend faculty meetings; uphold school rules and board policy. Other duties may be assigned.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

North Dakota Teaching License with qualifications in one or more areas of Special Education.

Bachelor's Degree in one or more areas of Special Education.

Master's Degree in Special Education is preferred.

Experience in a Special Education classroom, developing and implementing IEPs and positive behavior support plans, and working with learners with complex behaviors is preferred.

Prior teaching experience is preferred.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: may be required to lift up to ~30 pounds; regularly required to reach, stand, walk, bend, talk, and hear.

The West Fargo Public School District prohibits discrimination and harassment based on an individual's race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, or other protected status. External applicants are eligible for ND Veteran's Preference. (The district's PDF position description is not reproduced here.)