Special Education Instructional Aide 2026-2027

Performance Responsibilities

• Implements instructional techniques and learning activities as directed.
• Participates as an integral member of the remediation instructional team.
• Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
• Prepares and organizes materials and equipment for instruction and instructs pupils individually or in small groups in the classroom or in the computer lab.
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
• Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction.
• Affords supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
• Works with individual students or small groups of students in the classroom or the computer lab to reinforce learning of material or skills.
• Checks lab work and notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and makeup work as assigned by the teacher and assists with the documentation of pupil progress on a continuous basis.
• Duties may include performance of health services, for which training will be provided.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Teacher and/or Principal or school center head.

Physical Demands

• The work is primarily sedentary.
• The work requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision and hearing.
• The work requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations.
• The work at times requires bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, reaching, with the ability to lift, carry, push or pull light weights.

Minimum Qualifications

• A High School Diploma or G.E.D.
• Passing Score on the Kentucky Paraeducator Assessment or 48 college hours.
• Demonstrated competent language skills.
• Successful experience working with children, individually or in groups, including ability to read and understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them and to use them effectively.
• Participated in program training as specified by the Kentucky Department of Education and local district.
• Program specific certifications/training.