Special Ed Instructional Assistant (IA) - Modified CDC Grades 4 - 8

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for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate like EEO, etc. The posting includes many details: role description, education, certificates, required testing, level/salary range, continuing education, HR contact, position type, job category, clearances, FLSA status, purpose, essential functions (list), work environment physical demands, temperament. We need to map to sections: About the role (purpose and overview), Responsibilities (essential functions), Requirements (education, certificates, testing, clearances), Qualifications maybe overlapping, Skills maybe from essential functions? Benefits, Pay, Schedule: we have Level/Salary Range: Support Salary Schedule (Inst. Asst. SPED IA II with or w/o cert.) That's pay info. Schedule: Position Type: Full Time. Benefits: Continuing Education/Training: None Specified (that's not a benefit). No explicit benefits like health insurance etc. So we should not create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It does not. So omit Benefits. Pay: we have salary schedule mention. So include Pay section with that info. Schedule: we have Position Type: Full Time. So include Schedule section. We also need to include maybe Qualifications section separate from Requirements? Could combine but we need to follow instruction: use headings for those categories if content exists. We have education, certificates, testing, clearances, etc. That's qualifications/requirements. Could put under Requirements. Qualifications maybe duplicate. Safer to have Requirements covering education, certificates, testing, clearances. Qualifications maybe not needed. Skills: we could extract from essential functions (skills like de-escalation, first aid, etc.) but we might put under Skills section. However we must not create thin sections; better to have a few substantive sections. Could combine Responsibilities and Skills? But we need to follow headings list: we can include About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Pay, Schedule. That's enough. We must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to preserve all substantive info: purpose paragraph, essential functions list (many items). Work environment physical demands and temperament also substantive; could be part of Responsibilities or a separate Working Conditions section but not in allowed headings. Could include under Responsibilities as part of duties. Or we could add a section "Working Conditions" but not in allowed list; better to stick to allowed headings. So we can include physical demands and temperament under Responsibilities as bullet points. We need to use

• for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So for essential functions we need a list. Also for requirements (education, certificates, testing, clearances) we can list. We need to use

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  About the role

  Purpose: The job of Special Education Instructional Assistant was established for the purpose/s of working with individual and/or small groups of students under the supervision of a professionally licensed teacher in the supervision and monitoring review: annually ... etc. Actually we need to copy the purpose paragraph exactly as given, but we can trim boilerplate? The purpose paragraph: "The job of Special Education Instructional Assistant was established for the purpose/s of working with individual and/or small groups of students under the supervision of a professionally licensed teacher in the supervision and Monitoring Review: Annually Descriptor Term Special Education - Special Education Instructional Assistant II (SPED IA II) instruction of students receiving support through an Individualized Education Plan (IEP). The SPED IA may provide support and services in the general education classroom, in a special education classroom, or during intervention. Employees in this classification will receive a variety of assignments including classroom support, intervention delivery, support services, data collection support, lunchroom, playground, and related arts support, etc. SLE Program Purposes: Specialized Learning Environments (SLEs) are class-based programs designed to serve students with multiple disabilities and significant academic, medical, social-emotional, behavior, and/or communication needs. Instruction in the SLE incorporates the use of federally mandated, evidence-based programs and is guided by the general education curriculum as defined through the state standards and district guiding tenants. This instruction is individualized to the student based on the content of their IEP. These programs are located in a number of elementary, middle, and high schools within Washington County School and include our Comprehensive Development Classrooms (CDC), Modified Academic Programs, and Behavior Intervention Programs; placement decisions are made by a student's IEP team." We need to preserve all substantive info; we can keep that as a paragraph. Then Responsibilities: list essential functions. There are many bullet-like sentences each starting with a verb. We'll put each as

• . We need to ensure we don't miss any. Let's extract list from the text after "Essential Functions". The list includes: - Adapts classroom activities, assignments, and/or materials under the direction of the supervising teacher. - Adapts classroom work in order to provide students with instructional materials that address individualized learning plans within established lesson plans. - Administers classroom assignments, tests, homework assignments, make-up work, etc. - Administers immediate first aid and medical assistance as instructed by a health care professional (e.g. diapering, tube feeding, colostomy bags, medication, etc). - Assists in completing all record-keeping requirements. - Assists in designing/utilizing appropriate materials for individual students in the regular or special education classrooms. - Assists in instructing children in health and personal habits, such as eating, resting, and toilet habits. (Specifically Early Intervention) - Assists in maintaining a safe work and play environment. - Assists regular and special education teachers in facilitating modifications and/or adaptations in the educational environment, instructional materials and/or equipment for special education students. - Assists students, individually or in small groups, with lessons to practice and/or reinforce learning concepts and assist students in reaching academic goals and grade-level standards. - Assists students, under supervision of special education and/or regular education teachers, in working toward meeting IEP objectives and goals. - Assists teacher in maintaining a positive, orderly, and academically focused learning condition in the instructional environment. - Assumes responsibility for knowing and following the safety rules and proper procedures associated with the responsibilities of the job. - Assumes the responsibility of having regular and timely attendance. - Collaborates with instructional staff, other school personnel, parents and a variety of community resources for the benefit of and in the best interest of students in the academic areas, athletics, special programs, extra-curricular activities, etc. - Communicate with teachers as may be required to assist in evaluating progress and/or implement IEP objectives (where applicable). - Discusses assigned duties with classroom teachers to coordinate instructional efforts. - Dresses children and changes diapers as necessary. - Employs and implements de-escalation/restraint strategies. Restraint training and certification is required. - Employs special education strategies or techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, or memory as directed by supervising teacher. - Follows all board policies, school system rules and administrative regulations. - Fosters cooperative social behavior through activities and group projects to assist students in forming satisfying relationships with other students and adults. - Implements IEPs that focus on improving areas of skill deficits. - Implements self-care programs, including providing direct assistance to students (e.g., toileting, positioning, lifting feeding, etc.) as needed and under the direction of the supervising teacher. - Implements, under the supervision of assigned teacher, instructional programs and lesson plans. - Instructs and monitors students in the use and care of equipment and materials to prevent injuries and damage. - Maintains a high level of personal integrity and a strong work ethic. - Maintains classroom equipment, work areas, and manual and electronic files and records to ensure availability of items, provide written reference; and provide a safe learning environment. - Maintains confidentiality relative to employee, student, and parent records/information and procedures according to legal and system guidelines such as the Employee Handbook or Washington County Schools Policy Manual. - May be required to ride the school bus with students to monitor the health and safety needs of students, provide medical care of students as needed, monitor conduct of students, maintain discipline and safety, and prevent altercations between students and damage to the bus. - Participates in school bus safety drills. - Monitors and supervises individual and/or groups of students in a variety of settings (e.g. classroom, playground, field trips, library, cafeteria, bus loading/unloading, etc.). - Observe students and/or parents to detect signs of ill health, problem situations, and other concerns that should be reported to the teacher. - Participates in and completes required hours of professional learning/training. (e.g. child development, early childhood education, health/safety, De-escalation and restraint, CPR, intervention, etc.) - Prepares lesson materials, exhibits, equipment, and demonstrations. - Provides direct academic and social skills instruction and support within the classroom or in a small group. - Reports immediately, as required by law or school policy, to the appropriate agency(ies) and/or the principal or other persons designated by the school system, incidents involving unlawful student possession of weapons or drugs or fighting on school property. - Reports immediately, as required by law, to the appropriate agency(ies) and the principal or other persons designated by the school system, incidents of actual or suspected child abuse, actual or suspected child sexual abuse. - Responds in a prompt and professional manner to inquiries from a variety of sources (e.g. teachers, students, parents, administrators, boosters, etc.). - Responds to emergency situations and safety concerns as necessary and direct to appropriate personnel for resolution. - Supports implementation of a classroom management/discipline and individual student discipline plan ensuring safety at all times. - Supports implementation of and continuously monitors behavioral intervention plans as relates to student needs. - Utilizes positive behavioral supports as appropriate. - Utilizes special education teaching tools, techniques, and equipment as directed by supervising teacher. - Works directly with students within regular education and special education classrooms providing special assistance and/or instruction. - Performs other job-related duties as assigned. That's a lot. We'll include them. Then Requirements: list education, certificates & licenses, required testing, clearances, etc. Education: "Targeted job-related education that meets the organization's requirements" plus specifics: Must have two years of college credit (48 semester credit hours from an accredited university, excluding remedial courses); an Associate's Degree from an accredited university; or a passing score on the Para-Pro exam. Certificates & Licenses: Must have or be willing to obtain First Aid and CPR certification and De-escalation and Restraint certification. Required Testing: Pre-employment Physical Exam Clearances: Criminal Justice Fingerprint/Background Clearance. Passing score on the Para-Pro exam in lieu of college credit Also FLSA Status: Non-Exempt (maybe not required but could be included under Requirements? It's metadata but we can include as part of Requirements or maybe as a separate note. Since we have no specific heading for FLSA, we could include in Requirements paragraph. Position Type: Full Time (Schedule). Level/Salary Range: Support Salary Schedule (Inst. Asst. SPED IA II with or w/o cert.) (Pay). Continuing Education/Training: None Specified (we can ignore as not benefit). HR Contact etc we can drop as minor metadata. We'll put Requirements as list. Pay:

  Support Salary Schedule (Inst. Asst. SPED IA II with or w/o cert.)

  Schedule:

  Full Time

  We need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. Not using. Now produce HTML fragment. Let's craft:

  About the role

  [purpose paragraph]

  Responsibilities

  • ... each essential function ...
  ...

  Requirements

  • Education