Special Education Teacher Aide - Life Skills Classroom

About the role

Part‑time Special Education Teacher Aide supporting a life skills classroom at Eagle View Elementary, providing instructional and personal‑care assistance to students with special needs.

Responsibilities

• Provides instructional support to the special education teacher.
• Assists in teaching daily living skills, social skills, leisure‑time activity skills, specific self‑help skills, community access and mobility skills.
• Ability to lift 45 pounds.
• Encourages and reinforces students, building self‑image and helping them to be responsible.
• Assists the teacher with student behavior management.
• Provides instruction to students under the direction of the special education teacher.
• Assists the teacher with clerical duties.
• Accompanies students to mainstream classes, supervising and assisting during class and times between classes.
• Assists students with feeding, personal hygiene, toileting, diapering, changing clothes, etc.
• May require lifting, positioning, and carrying of students.
• Assists students with group and club participation during school hours.
• Assists in planning and supervising field trips and other off‑campus activities.
• Follows the teacher's program when working with students.
• Tracks student progress and collects behavioral data.
• Consistently follows the behavior system and classroom management program.
• Tutors students in small groups with basic reading and math skills.
• Maintains positive working relationships with students and staff.
• Maintains confidentiality.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• Associate Degree, 48 semester hours of college credit, or must have passed the Para‑Pro Test (or be willing to take and pass it immediately upon hire).
• Successful experience working with children at risk.
• Successful experience as an at‑risk teaching assistant.
• Applicants must be 18 years of age or older.

Skills

• Ability to lift 45 pounds and to lift, position, and carry students.
• Skill in assisting with feeding, personal hygiene, toileting, diapering, and clothing changes.
• Ability to tutor small groups in basic reading and math.
• Capacity to track student progress and collect behavioral data.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and build positive relationships with students and staff.

Benefits

No benefits are offered for this voucher position.

Schedule

Up to 29.5 hours per week.