Special Education Learning Support Instructional Assistant

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