Special Education Paraeducator Aide 2 1:1 (32.5 hrs./wk., 180 days)
About the role
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.
Responsibilities
- Aid in boarding and de-boarding buses before and after school.
- Assist students in reaching proper locations in school.
- Accompany students into general education classrooms.
- Provide attendant services (diapering, toileting, washing faces, etc.) to students as needed.
- Support instruction in proper health and hygiene habits.
- Perform delegated procedures such as clean intermittent catheterization, provide emergency and first aid care as necessary.
- Move students weighing 50-80 pounds, daily and repetitively.
- Follow 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 occasionally.
- Follow behavior plans as outlined in students' IEP's.
- Use positive behavior management techniques.
- Assist with lesson assignments.
- 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 and preparing graphs and charts.
- Assist in modifying the general education curriculum.
- Participate in district training programs when requested and receive training in and implement non-violent behavioral intervention procedures.
- Maintain confidentiality regarding student information and records.
Requirements
Highly qualified, under supervision, 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.
Qualifications
Highly qualified, under supervision, 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 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, ability and/or knowledge to use all technologies and modalities which may be required to perform requirements of the position, and be capable of providing the type of communication services required for the person who is deaf or whose hearing is impaired.
Benefits
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Pay
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Schedule
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