Instructional Assistant Special Education

Job Description

York School District One

Instructional Services          

SPECIAL EDUCATION INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT

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Qualifications:

• High school diploma with a successful passing grade on the Para Pro exam or two-year degree, or 60 hours of college credit from an accredited college or university
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Prior work with children
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable

Reports To:  Principal/Director

Job Goal

To assist the teacher to achieve teaching objectives by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole.

Performance Responsibilities

• Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
• Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on an understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
• Helps students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher.
• Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction.
• Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
• Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, field trips, and at all other times.
• Assists student with bathroom needs and provides assistance with mobility in a wheelchair.
• Reads to students listen to students read and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
• Assists students in the library or media center.
• Checks notebooks, and correct papers, and supervises testing and make-up work, as assigned by the teacher.
• Helps students with their clothing.
• Assists with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines.
• Assists with wash-up and toilet routines.
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• Serves as a source of information and helps any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
• Participates in in-service training programs, as assigned.

 Specific Job Requirements

• Possess and utilize excellent team-building skills
• Able to lift 75 lbs. or more
• Accept delegated responsibilities willingly
• Able to work under occasional stress
• Demonstrate a high level of initiative in job performance

Terms of Employment:

182 days per school year and needs of the student based on IEP; salary and work year to be established by the Board

Evaluation:

Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Support Services Personnel.

EEO Statement: 

York School District One does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, handicap, sex, age, alienage, or national origin as required by applicable state and federal laws. 

DISCLAIMER STATEMENT: 
This job description is not intended as a complete listing of job duties. The incumbent is responsible for the performance of other related duties as assigned/required.