What are the responsibilities and job description for the Special Education Learning Support Instructional Assistant position at Community Academy of Philadelphia?
OVERVIEW OF POSITION:
To assist, support, and work closely with teachers and other team members in providing educational benefits for students.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Earn an associates degree or higher from a college or university
- Pass a state or local assessment that demonstrates knowledge of, and ability to assist in, reading, writing, and mathematics.
ABILITY TO:
- Willing and committed to helping others
- Empathetic, nonjudgmental, and supportive.
- Open-minded, flexible, and adaptable to change.
- Ability to work under pressure and appropriately handle difficult situations.
- Willing to learn and to accept training, supervision and evaluation.
- Ability to walk and stand over a long period of time.
- Able to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.
- Possess a caring nature while teaching the students with autism and intellectual disabilities.
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of materials or skills initially introduced and outlined by faculty.
- Assists the faculty in devising special strategies for reinforcing learning materials and skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
- Collaborate with classroom teachers to implement modifications and specially designed instruction as per IEP/504.
- Monitors work, corrects papers, and supervises curriculum-based testing and makeup work as assigned.
- Coordination of individualized academic, behavioral and social programming.
- Implement appropriate and engaging lessons designed to meet the individual needs of students.
- Performs clerical, classroom maintenance, and instructional duties as assigned by faculty.
- Alerts faculty of any problem or special information about an individual student.
- Assists with progress monitoring Special Education students utilizing reading, writing, transition, and math tools.
- Communicates with teachers and specialists.
- Demonstrates ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students in the school environment and community.
- Participates in in-service training programs as approved.
- Maintains a safe working environment and encourages colleagues to be safety minded in the performance of all school-related duties.
- Performs other such duties/assignments as directed.
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:
- Ten (10) month working period
- Work hours are from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Salary determined by salary scale updated annually
- Position constitutes an employee at will of the Board, with a contract length and salaried wage to be established annually by the Board
- Fulfills the requirements of the Pennsylvania Paraprofessional Standards
EVALUATION:
Performance of this job will be evaluated annually in accordance with provisions of the School’s Personnel Policy.
Salary : $40,000 - $50,000