Assistant, Special Education​/IMPACT

Position: Assistant, Special Education / IMPACT (35 Hrs)

• Position Type:
  Student Support/Instructional Assistants/ Asst-Special Ed /Emotional Disability (IMPACT)
• Date Posted: 12/29/2025
• Location:
  
  Avon Middle School West
• Date Available:
  
  01/06/2026
• Closing Date:
  Until Filled

Educational Requirements

High school diploma or GED required. Advanced work in special education preferred.

Skills and Knowledge

Must have ability to relate well and communicate effectively with a variety of individuals including students, staff, parents, and classroom volunteers.

Experience

None is required. Experience in a classroom setting preferred.

Certification

None is required.

Primary Job Functions

Provides support to the classroom and assists the classroom or resource teacher in achieving student learning objectives per Individualized Education Plan (IEP). Specific duties will include working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve and maintain the skill levels of the class as a whole. Will also assist with classroom management and implement student specific behavior plans as appropriate as well as providing for special health care needs.

Salary

Lane

ASST-F + Impact Add-on - Hourly pay starting at $19.25.

Assigned Workdays Per Year

181 days (School Year Days)

Status

Full-Time (35 Hours per Week)

Schedule

Monday – Friday, 8:50am

Benefits

Full-time positions are eligible for medical, dental insurance as well as supplemental benefits such as vision, life insurance, disability, etc. Eligible for PERF Retirement.

Paid Time Off Benefits

Eligible

Holiday Pay

Not Eligible

Qualifications

• Educational Requirements:
  
  High school diploma or GED required. Advanced work in special education preferred.
• Skills and Knowledge:
  Must have ability to relate well and communicate effectively with a variety of individuals including students, staff, parents, and classroom volunteers.
• Experience:
  
  None is required. Experience in a classroom setting preferred.
• Certification:
  None is required.

Essential Functions

• Maintains schedule as developed by supervising teacher.
• Works with individual or small groups of students to reinforce learning of materials or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Utilizes de-escalation techniques when behaviors and emotions are escalated, at the direction of the teacher.
• Prepares classroom or learning environment with needed supplies and materials.
• Accompanies students to general education and special area classes and supports them in those areas.
• Participates in in-service training program directed at supporting behavior, such as Nonviolent Crisis Intervention.
• Assists with supervision of students during emergency drills.
• Maintains records and collects data as directed by the teacher.
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
• Performs other such tasks and assumes such other responsibilities as the principal may assign.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand and use hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to walk, reach with hands and arms, climb, balance and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance, vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Avon Community School Corporation does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, or veteran status in admission to its programs, services, or activities, in access to them, in treatment of individuals, or in any aspect of its operations. The Avon Community School Corporation also does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices.

EEO

Notice

This notice is provided as required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Questions, complaints, or requests for additional information regarding these laws may be forwarded to the designated compliance coordinator.

Human

Resources Contact

Ms. Kristin Williams
Director of Human Resources
7203

E. US Highway 36
Avon, IN 46123

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