SpEd. TEACHER AIDE

About the Role

Part-time Special Education Teacher Aide position in a Life Skills classroom at Maeser Elementary. This is a voucher position with up to 29.5 hours per week and no benefits.

Responsibilities

• Provides instructional support to 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 teacher with clerical duties
• Accompanies students to mainstream classes, supervising and assisting during class and between classes
• Assists students with feeding, personal hygiene, toileting, diapering, changing clothes, and other tasks requiring 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 student behavioral data
• Consistently follows 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
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor

Requirements

• Must be 18 years of age or older
• 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 the Para-Pro Test immediately upon hire)
• Successful experience working with children at risk
• Successful experience as an at-risk teaching assistant

Schedule

Up to 29.5 hours per week