Special Education Aide - Westwood Junior High

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent
• Experience working with children
• Ability to work with children from diverse ethnic and economic backgrounds
• Demonstrate organizational and interpersonal skills
• Responsible, able to work independently, and multitask
• Maintain confidentiality regarding students, staff and parents at all times

Responsibilities

• Assist teacher with instructional materials and classroom displays
• Help to maintain a safe and orderly classroom environment
• Assist the teacher as needed with lesson plans, make instructional presentations, conduct discussions, encourage practice, and correct students' work in a manner that promotes competence
• Establish a positive rapport with students, parents and school personnel
• Work with individual students or small groups so that they may attain grade-level proficiency, and to remediate diagnosed weaknesses
• Assist students with physical needs and personal care, including feeding, bathroom needs and personal hygiene, cafeteria, bus and playground monitoring
• Help manage behavior of students which includes intervening in crisis situations and restraining disruptive or dangerous student behavior as needed
• Assume responsibility for learning and adapting to each student's special medical, physical, communicative and emotional needs
• Attend appropriate and required staff development to enhance instruction
• Other duties as assigned