Special Education Paraeducator Aide 2 1:1 (20 hrs./wk., 180 days)

About the role

The Paraeducator Aide II works in a special education classroom assisting the teacher and/or a special education student within the general and/or special education classroom, in specific specialized programs such as: CLS (Comprehensive Life Skills), EC (Early Childhood), MA (Multi-Age), SIP (Social Intervention Programs), Strategies (Autism Spectrum Disorders), Social Resource and/or Resource classrooms as well as one-on-one assistance.

Additionally, a Paraeducator Aide II working at a Title I school must be highly qualified.

Responsibilities

• Assist students with intellectual, physical, or behavioral disabilities in boarding and de-boarding buses before and after school;
• Accompany students into general education classrooms;
• Provide attendant services (diapering, toileting, washing faces, etc.) to students as needed;
• Supports instruction in proper health and hygiene habits;
• Performs delegated procedures such as clean intermittent catheterization, provide emergency and first aid care as necessary;
• Move students weighing 50-80 pounds, daily and repetitively;
• Follows proper safety procedures;
• Prepares and helps feed students as needed;
• Supports instruction in functional life skills;
• Realizes individual needs of students with intellectual, physical and/or behavioral disabilities and modifies general education classroom assignments occasionally;
• Follows behavior plans as outlined in students' IEP's;
• Uses positive behavior management techniques;
• Assists with lesson assignments;
• Reinforces learning concepts to students;
• Maintains discipline and order on the playground, lunchroom, library and classrooms;
• Accompanies students on field trips;
• Arranges and adjusts wheelchairs, oxygen hoses and other equipment as needed;
• Communicates with special education teachers about concerns and/or observations of students;
• Assists in maintaining bulletin boards in the classroom;
• May assist children with medication when trained;
• Assists in the operation of classroom equipment or students' assistive technology devices;
• Assists in recording student progress towards goals and developing instructional materials and preparing graphs and charts;
• Assists in modification of the general education curriculum;
• Participates in district training programs when requested and receives training in and implements non-violent behavioral intervention procedures;
• Maintains confidentiality regarding student information and records.

Qualifications

May act as liaison between general education teachers, resource teachers; previews instructional information when possible and may attend seminars and conferences.

Skills

Knowledge of characteristics of students who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing; assists students with Hearing Impairments to access curriculum; utilizes appropriate questioning and discussion techniques based on student's modality of learning; demonstrates skill and knowledge of current technology practices relative to students who have hearing impairments; knowledge of and ability to effectively utilize, access and maintain necessary technology and equipment needed, and assist students with hearing impairments within classroom instruction and activities as well as other curricular access.

Benefits

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Pay

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Schedule

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