SPED SAS Aide

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Wage/Hour Status: Nonexempt

Reports to: Principal and teacher(s)

Pay Grade: Para 3

Dept./School: Assigned Campus

Date Revised: 04/24/2025

Help special education teachers provide for the physical and instructional needs of students with disabilities in a special education setting. Assist in implementing classroom programs, including self-help, behavior management, social skills, communication skills, and instruction programs. Work under the general supervision of the principal and the immediate direction of the certified special education teacher. The Social Academic Structured (SAS) classroom is a special education setting where students may spend all or a portion of their day in the most restrictive environment.

The goal is to provide the students with the social and academic support they need to integrate them into the general education setting as appropriate based on their unique disability-based needs.

• Education/Certification: High school diploma or GED;
  Valid Texas educational aide certificate
• Special Knowledge/Skills: Ability to work with children with disabilities (preferably social, communication, and structured teaching experience);
  Ability to follow verbal and written instructions;
  Ability to communicate effectively;
  Knowledge of general office equipment
• Experience: Some experience working with children

• Help teachers prepare instructional materials and classroom displays.
• Help maintain a neat and orderly classroom.
• Help with inventory, care, and maintenance of equipment.
• Help teachers keep administrative records and prepare required reports.
• Provide orientation and assistance to substitute teachers.

• Assist students with physical disabilities according to their needs, including transferring to and from wheelchairs, lifting, or positioning.
• Assist students with physical needs and personal care, including feeding, bathroom needs, and personal hygiene.
• Help manage students' behavior, including intervening in crisis situations and restraining disruptive or dangerous behavior as needed.
• Adapt to each student’s medical, physical, communicative, and emotional needs.
• Work with students or small groups to develop motor skills and conduct instructional exercises.
• Supervise students throughout the school day, inside and outside the classroom, including lunchroom, bus, and playground duty.
• Keep teachers informed of students' needs or problems.

• Maintain confidentiality.
• Participate in staff development, faculty meetings, and events as assigned.

None.

Wheelchair lift, ramp, personal computer, copier, audiovisual equipment.

Maintain emotional control under stress. Frequent standing, stooping, bending, kneeling, pushing, and pulling; heavy lifting of students. Exposure to bacteria and communicable diseases.

Note:

This document describes the general purpose and responsibilities and is not exhaustive.