Special Education Aide - Westwood Junior High

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Qualifications:

• High School diploma or equivalent

• Experience working with children

• Ability to work with children from diverse ethnic and economic backgrounds

• Demonstrate organizational and interpersonal skills

• Responsible, able to work independently, and multitask

• Maintain confidentiality regarding students, staff and parents at all times

Major Responsibilities:

• Assist teacher with instructional materials and classroom displays

• Help to maintain a safe and orderly classroom environment

• Assist the teacher as needed with lesson plans, make instructional presentations, conduct discussions, encourage practice, and correct students' work in a manner that promotes competence

• Establish a positive rapport with students, parents and school personnel

• Work with individual students or small groups so that they may attain grade-level proficiency, and to remediate diagnosed weaknesses

• Assist students with physical needs and personal care, including feeding, bathroom needs and personal hygiene, cafeteria, bus and playground monitoring

• Help manage behavior of students which includes intervening in crisis situations and restraining disruptive or dangerous student behavior as needed

• Assume responsibility for learning and adapting to each student's special medical, physical, communicative and emotional needs

• Attend appropriate and required staff development to enhance instruction

• Other duties as assigned