Paraeducator Instructional Assistant - FT/benefits 26/27 SY

Term of Employment: 180 Days / Ten Months with summers off, permanent position. Pay Rate: $20.25 per hour.

Benefits

• Sick and personal time
• Paid floating holidays
• Medical, Vision, Dental, and Prescription insurance

About the Role

To work under the direction of a certificated staff member to support and assist in providing instructional programs and services to students with disabilities in order to provide them with help and support needed to benefit from their Individualized Education Program (IEP). Services may be provided in a special education class, regular education class, or other instructional setting.

Responsibilities

• Abides by applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, guidelines, District policies, and administrative regulations.
• Familiarizes self with assigned student(s) IEPs including needed accommodations in area of responsibility.
• Provides one-on-one or group review of material taught by certificated staff, as assigned.
• Assists with classroom management and implementation of individual students' positive behavior support plans.
• Assists the student(s) to whom assigned in such physical tasks as managing materials and personal items and transitions within the building (such as travel to specials, office, nurse, restroom, fire drills, etc.).
• Provides information and assistance to substitute teachers regarding student(s).
• As directed, assists with student(s) assigned to other paraprofessionals in their absence.
• Assists students with self-care in accordance with their IEPs and as directed by teacher(s).
• Assists the student(s) in curriculum tasks, guiding, helping, and reinforcing/rephrasing instruction and providing assistance during testing as provided for in the student's IEP and as directed by teacher(s).
• Assists with morning and afternoon bus duty, morning and afternoon hall duty, morning cafeteria duty, and lunch duty and/or assists with students being dropped off by parents as directed by Building Principal.
• Assembles materials needed by teacher(s) for daily instruction or student homework and makes any adaptations, as necessary per individual student's needs (enlarge, modify number of problems, and/or adapt/modify work by color coding/enlarging in accordance with IEPs) as directed by teacher(s).
• Monitors and assists with student use of instructional equipment. Provides general maintenance of equipment including cleaning and disinfecting. Reports malfunctioning equipment to classroom teacher.
• Interacts, communicates, and cooperates with staff, faculty, students, and administration; communicates with parents as directed as well as serving as a resource person to confer with IEP team.
• Accompanies students on field trips and community-based instruction activities, upon request of District Administration.
• Attends training as required for performance of the job. Completes and provides evidence of twenty (20) hours per school year of staff development activities related to his/her assignment.
• Provides accommodations as set out in each student's IEP and as directed by teacher(s).
• Monitors student's progress, as deemed appropriate, during regular or special class performance and group work, prompting, assisting, or redirecting, as directed by a teacher, during teacher instruction or independent work periods.
• Prepares journals/assignment books and assists with organizational needs on a daily basis including monitoring assignment book and gathering homework materials.
• Collects and reports data related to behavior support plans and health issues as directed by teacher(s)/school nurse.
• Serves as a liaison between general and special education classrooms.
• Collects data and keeps daily communication information as directed to be reviewed by teacher(s) before being sent to parent(s).
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of classroom teachers.
• Reinforces/implements assigned students' behavior plans as instructed by the teacher.
• Performs reinforcement services and activities related to cognitive, visual, auditory, and motor skills as assigned by the teacher.
• Assists teachers with students who may need physical management of behavior using safe, legal, and acceptable procedures.
• May be reassigned to support individual students as needed.

Qualifications

• Associates Degree or meets a rigorous standard of quality as demonstrated through a state or local assessment.
• Successful previous experience with students with special needs in an educational setting.