Special Education Paraeducator 1:1 Aide 3 CLS HQ (30 hrs./wk., 180 days)
About the role
The Paraeducator Aide 3 position at Picollo Special Education School is highly qualified, requiring a high school diploma or equivalent, and completion of specific educational requirements or ParaPro Assessment.
Responsibilities
- Aid in boarding and de-boarding students from buses before and after school.
- Assist students in reaching proper locations in school.
- Accompany students into general education classrooms.
- Provide attendant services such as diapering, toileting, washing faces, etc., as needed.
- Support instruction in proper health and hygiene habits.
- Perform delegated procedures like clean intermittent catheterization and provide emergency and first aid care.
- Move students weighing 50-80 pounds, daily and repetitively, following proper safety procedures.
- Prepare and help feed students as needed.
- Support instruction in functional life skills.
- Realize individual needs of students with intellectual, physical, and/or behavioral disabilities and modify general education classroom assignments.
- Follow behavior plans outlined in students' IEPs and use positive behavior management techniques.
- Assist with lesson assignments and reinforce learning concepts to students.
- Maintain discipline and order on the playground, lunchroom, library, and classrooms.
- Accompany students on field trips.
- Arrange and adjust wheelchairs, oxygen hoses, and other equipment as needed.
- Communicate with special education teachers about concerns and/or observations of students.
- Assist in maintaining bulletin boards in the classroom.
- May assist children with medication when trained.
- Assist in the operation of classroom equipment or students' assistive technology devices.
- Assist in recording student progress towards goals and developing instructional materials.
- Assist in modifying the general education curriculum.
- Participate in district training programs and receive training in non-violent behavioral intervention procedures.
Qualifications
Works in a special education classroom assisting teaching staff in a variety of instructional activities. Assists teachers in special education classrooms and provides individual or group assistance depending on student or class's functional living and academic skills and/or behavioral support needed. Incumbent can also provide attendant services to students with various intellectual and/or physical disabilities.
Skills
Knowledge of students with intellectual, physical, and/or behavioral disabilities, ability to perform attendant services, and proficiency in health and hygiene practices.
Benefits
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