Building Substitute - Instructional Asst. - 7 hrs. per day

Building Substitute
- Instructional Assistant

Position:
Building Substitute
- Instructional Assistant

Location:

C.O Harrison Elementary School

Hours:

7 hrs. per day/5 days per week

Filing Deadline:
Until Filled

Qualifications:

High School Diploma

Terms of Employment:
Student school year. Salary as per substitute instructional assistant salary schedule.

Job Title:

Aide (Braille, Classroom, Intervention, S.I.T. & Special Education)

Reports To:

Assigned administrator/supervisor

Job Objective:
Provides support services that help students benefit from the educational program.

Minimum Qualifications:

Valid state department of education license/permit as determined at the time of appointment. Meets all mandated state/federal criteria (i.e., approved degree, completion of requisite higher education credit hours/courses, or acceptable score on an authorized professional standards test). Behavioral management skills substantiated by training/work experience. Duties may require agility, physical strength, and stamina to address the needs of students with problem behavior and/or students requiring physical assistance (e.g., mobility, transferring, positioning, etc.).

Complies with drug-free workplace rules, board policies and administrative guidelines/procedures. Demonstrates dependability/flexibility. Reacts to interruptions/emerging priorities effectively. Embodies high ethical standards/integrity. Accepts personal responsibility for decisions/conduct. Exhibits consistent, impartial and resourceful critical-thinking skills. Maintains a record free of criminal violations that would prohibit public school employment.

Note:

Position may require successful completion of communicable disease, child abuse/neglect, CPR, and/or first aid training as a condition of employment.

Essential Functions:

• Performs duties that facilitate the effective delivery/advancement of program services.
• Works effectively with minimal supervision.
• Performs tasks efficiently to meet deadlines.
• Performs support services that may include student assistance with daily living activities, behavior management, discrete trial training, instructional support, social skills training, task redirection, etc.

Braille:

• Uses a variety of techniques (e.g., recorded texts, tactile graphics, Braille, etc.) to adapt materials as needed by the student and teacher.
• Ensures that adapted materials are accurate/appropriate.
• Provides Braille output using a variety of systems (e.g., Braille translation software or comparable electronic rapid Braille production system, braille writers, etc.).
• Operates and/or assists assigned students in the use of specialized equipment (e.g., braillers, keyboarding equipment, electronic scanners, personal computers, etc.).
• Performs basic Braille formatting for literacy, foreign language and Nemeth Code Rules except as requested by the teacher to address student reading ability.
• Translates student brailled materials.

Classroom:

• Performs non-teaching classroom and ancillary duties under the direct supervision of an assigned teacher.
• Helps individuals or small groups of students with remedial or enrichment activities.
• Helps students with disabilities participate in appropriate classroom activities as directed.

Intervention:

• Helps individuals or small groups of students with remedial or enrichment activities.
• Reinforces instructional objectives introduced by the teacher.
• Helps implement intervention strategies identified in individualized educational plans (IEP).
• Prepares/distributes program materials.
• Sets up classroom equipment for use (e.g., computers, media resources, etc.).
• Keeps program areas orderly.
• Cleans/maintains equipment as directed.

Special

Education:

• Performs student support services that may include assistance with daily living activities, behavior management, discrete trial training, instructional support, social skills training, task redirection, etc.
• Supports an inclusive educational environment.
• Helps students with disabilities participate in appropriate learning activities.
• Assists with behavior management plans when required.
• Facilitates student mobility.
• Helps students use assistive and/or augmentative devices.
• Assists students with personal care (e.g.,…