Special Education Assistant (SPED Paraprofessional)
Posted 5 days ago
Position Areas
Special Education
Description
Job Title: Special Education Teacher Assistant (FLSA: Non-Exempt)
Job Objectives: Germantown Municipal School District’s Special Education Teacher Assistant staff members are expected to provide best instructional practices in ensuring that students have a quality educational experience evident by socio-emotional growth and academic achievement.
Minimum Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or GED required. Some experience working with students with disabilities, preferred
- A comparable amount of training and experience may be substituted for the minimum qualifications
- Perform responsible human support and paraprofessional work assisting classroom teachers or other professionals to achieve instructional objectives; assisting students with disabilities with achieving established goals and with personal care and mobility
- Assist classroom teacher in performing specific duties as assigned or undertaking specialized tasks to achieve and enhance instructional and behavioral objectives
- Work with individuals, small groups, or large groups as assigned teacher
- Assist with behavior modification as assigned by teacher
- Lift, move, and operate adaptive equipment
- Assist students with personal care tasks, including but not limited to, lavatory, clothing, hygiene, diapering, toileting, and wash-up routines
- Escort students as assigned by teacher or administrator
- Assist students with mobility needs such as, lifting and positioning students, lifting in and out of wheelchairs; loading and unloading on the bus; transporting students in and around the school and on field trips
- Monitor students during assigned periods within a variety of school environments for the purpose of maintaining a safe and positive learning environment
- Provide programmed practice activities and repetitions as developed by teacher, therapist, or pathologist
- Report student concerns directly and expeditiously to teacher and assist with student resolution
- Assist with breakfast, lunch, snack, including cleanup
- Maintain various records and files
- Perform related work as required
- Be prepared to perform the job in accordance with the GMSD Classified Staff Evaluation Plan
- General knowledge of the practices, methods and techniques used in the teaching of special education population
- Ability to maintain files and information
- Skilled in the use of classroom and instructional equipment
- Ability to operate audio visual, standard office, word and data processing equipment
- Ability to operate adaptive equipment
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with teachers, parents, students, and administrators.
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Exposure to the following situations may range from remote to frequent based on circumstances and factors that may not be predictable
- Standard classroom environment
- The noise level in the work environment is moderate
- Significant standing; some walking, moving, climbing, carrying, bending, kneeling, crawling, reaching, handling, pushing, and pulling
- Must have the ability to lift 60 lbs
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential tasks