Special Education Paraeducator Aide 3 1:1 HQ CLS (32.5 hrs./wk., 180 days)

Summary Description

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. Incumbent performs related work as required.

Distinguishing Characteristics

The Teacher Aide III 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 Teacher Aide III working at a Title I school must be highly qualified.

Exemplary Duties/Responsibilities

• Aid students with intellectual, physical, or behavioral disabilities in boarding and de-boarding buses before and after school.
• Aid students in reaching proper location 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.

When Assigned to SPED Programs

• EC - Early Childhood/Pre-K: Provides services to three, four and five year olds with disabilities with a developmentally appropriate curriculum addressing all areas of child development including literacy and math readiness skills, gross and fine motor skills, self-help skills, communications skills, and social skills.
• EC SIP - Early Childhood/SIP: Provides developmentally appropriate curriculum that addresses all areas of child development including literacy and math readiness skills, gross and fine motor skills, self-help skills, communications skills, and social skills. Focuses primarily on social emotional development and primarily serves students with behavioral challenges in a small group setting.
• EC STRAT - Early Childhood/Strategies: Provides developmentally appropriate curriculum that addresses all areas of child development including literacy and math readiness skills, gross and fine motor skills, self-help skills, communications skills, and social skills. Focuses primarily on the development of communication and social emotional skills using a variety of strategies.
• IEC - Early Childhood/PreK: Provides services to three, four and five year olds who are receiving specialized instruction with typically developing peers in a developmentally appropriate classroom.
• SPED IK - Integrated Kindergarten: Provides developmentally appropriate curriculum in a co-teaching model that addresses all areas of child development including literacy and math readiness skills, gross and fine motor skills, self-help skills, communications skills, and social skills along with kindergarten standards and curriculum.
• CLS - Comprehensive Life Skills: Focuses on building a foundation to success in life while maintaining an academically rich environment that promotes student success with the specific development of critical social, emotional, and cognitive skills.
• SIP - Social Intervention Program: Provides a system of support - both academic and emotional/behavioral - for students with significant emotional/behavioral needs within the regular school setting.
• SOCIAL RESOURCE: Provides special designed social skills curriculum emphasizing development of social thinking and social coping skills through systematic, coordinated, methods including visual supports, modeling, role-playing, and a considerate environment for sensory needs.
• AH - Hearing Impaired: Demonstrates 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 assistive technology.