What are the responsibilities and job description for the Behavior Intervention Specialist/Special Education Assistant - Valley Charter Elementary School position at Valley Charter School?
Special Education Assistant
Job Description
Definition: A Special Education Assistant assists teachers by caring for the academic, behavioral, and/or physical needs of students with disabilities and helping in their training and education through the presentation of educational materials or exercises.
Typical Duties:
- Performs a variety of activities pertinent to training, physical care, disciplining, and tutoring, in order to inculcate habits, knowledge, and skills in students with disabilities.
- Assists teachers in implementing lessons or portions of lessons to a student or a group of students, checks accuracy of work, and presents additional assignments as directed by a certificated teacher.
- Helps students to use books, classroom materials and equipment.
- Adjusts or re-phrases portions of texts and classroom instructions.
- Keeps routine records related to attendance, grades and test scores.
- Operates audio-visual equipment and prepares or uses other materials and methods to assist teachers in presenting lessons to students.
- Assists teachers in directing activities or assigned groups of students.
- Assists teachers in maintaining discipline and encouraging acceptable behavior by the students, and may work as a member of a team to implement the behavior support plan.
- Under the teacher’s direction, participates in data collection on behaviors as part of behavior support plan development and implementation.
- Assists teachers in maintaining an environment conducive for learning and encouraging appropriate behavior by the students using a consistent team approach.
- Assists teachers in carrying out positive reinforcement procedures and reactive strategies identified in a behavior support plan, such as prompting student to switch to functionally equivalent replacement behavior and debriefing during the school day.
- Assists teachers on field trips by helping students with physical needs, maintaining discipline and reinforcing learning situations.
- May take notes for a student or students where designated in an IEP.
- Assists students with organizational support including recording assignments, documenting due dates, and providing prompts for upcoming quizzes and tests.
- Moves around in the classroom amongst the students, prompting students to attend to class activities, and checking behavior that may otherwise interfere with the learning process.
- May manage communication logs between the classroom and home -including faxing such documents.
- Performs related duties as assigned.