Special Education Instructional Assistant (IA) - Modified CDC Grades 3 - 5

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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 need to parse the posting. We have role: SPED Instructional Assistant II (SPED IA II). Education: Targeted job-related education that meets the organization's requirements. Department/Group: Student Supports - Special Education. Certificates & Licenses: 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. Must have or be willing to obtain First Aid and CPR certification and De-escalation and Restraint certification. Required Testing: Pre-employment Physical Exam. Level/Salary Range: Support Salary Schedule (Inst. Asst. SPED IA II with or w/o cert.). Continuing Education/Training: None Specified. HR Contact: HR Director or HR Generalist. Position Type: Full Time. Job Category: Classified. Clearances: Criminal Justice Fingerprint/Background Clearance. Passing score on the Para-Pro exam in lieu of college credit. FLSA Status: Non-Exempt. Purpose paragraph. Then Essential Functions list (many bullet-like sentences). Then WORK ENVIRONMENT Physical Demands Required etc. Then Temperament (Personal Traits). Then other notes. We need to produce sections: maybe About the role (purpose), Responsibilities (essential functions), Requirements (education, certificates, testing, clearances, etc.), Qualifications (maybe same as requirements?), Skills (maybe from essential functions?), Benefits (none specified, so we should NOT include Benefits unless present). Pay (Level/Salary Range present: "Support Salary Schedule (Inst. Asst. SPED IA II with or w/o cert.)" That's specific enough? It mentions salary schedule but not actual numbers. The rule: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It does state Level/Salary Range: Support Salary Schedule (Inst. Asst. SPED IA II with or w/o cert.). That's a statement about pay range, albeit generic. Should we include Pay section? It says "Level/Salary Range: Support Salary Schedule (Inst. Asst. SPED IA II with or w/o cert.)". That's specific content, albeit not numbers. I'd include a Pay section with that sentence. Schedule: Position Type: Full Time. That's schedule info. So we can include Schedule section with "Full Time". Benefits: None specified, so omit. We need to avoid repeating job title as heading. So no heading for role. We need to use

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  . We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate etc. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. Thus sections: About the role (purpose paragraph), Responsibilities (essential functions), Requirements (education, certificates, licenses, testing, clearances, etc.), Qualifications maybe overlapping; but we could combine Requirements and Qualifications? The instruction says use headings for those categories if content exists. We have content for Requirements (education, certificates, etc.) and also maybe Qualifications (like "Must have two years of college credit..." etc). Could treat that as Requirements. Also we have "Level/Salary Range" for Pay. "Position Type" for Schedule. "Temperament (Personal Traits)" maybe could be Skills? But we could put under Skills or maybe under Requirements? The temperament is personal traits, could be considered Skills/Attributes. We'll create a Skills section for those traits. Also we have "Continuing Education/Training: None Specified" - we should not include a section for that because it's placeholder. We have "HR Contact" - maybe minor metadata, we can fold into a short

  or drop. Probably drop as minor metadata. We have "Job Category: Classified" - minor metadata, drop. We have "FLSA Status: Non-Exempt" - minor metadata, drop. We have "Clearances: Criminal Justice Fingerprint/Background Clearance. Passing score on the Para-Pro exam in lieu of college credit" - that's part of Requirements. We have "Required Testing: Pre-employment Physical Exam" - part of Requirements. We have "Education: Targeted job-related education that meets the organization's requirements" - vague; but we also have more specific certificates & licenses. We'll include education specifics from Certificates & Licenses. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include the education requirement exactly as stated: "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." Also "Must have or be willing to obtain First Aid and CPR certification and De-escalation and Restraint certification." We also need to include the purpose paragraph exactly. We need to include essential functions list as

  • items. We need to include physical demands and temperament maybe as separate sections? Could be under "Work Environment" and "Skills". The instruction says use headings for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we can create sections: About the role (purpose), Responsibilities (essential functions), Requirements (education, certificates, testing, clearances), Skills (physical demands, temperament, maybe other abilities), Pay, Schedule. We need to ensure we don't create empty sections. Let's extract content. 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." That's a bit messy but we keep as is. Now Essential Functions list: many sentences starting with "Adapts classroom activities..." etc. We'll turn each sentence into
  • . We need to preserve all substantive information; do not summarize away detail. So we need to include each bullet exactly as in the posting. Let's copy the essential functions sentences: - 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,