Education Assistant - Cognitive Impairment

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Openings as of 7/14/2026

Education Assistant
- Cognitive Impairment

• Position Type:
  Support Staff/ Special Education Assistant
• Date Posted: 4/14/2026
• Location:
  
  High School North Building
• Date Available:
  
  Immediately

Notice of Support Staff Posting

-West Ottawa High School
- North

Reports To:

Principal

Beginning:
Immediately

Hours:

35 hours per week

7:35 a.m. to 2:53 p.m.

Full Time / School Year

• Assistance with students with various disabilities in categorical classrooms
• Knowledge of behavioral strategies
• Work closely with teachers to collaborate on accommodations and IEP requirements
• Assist classroom teachers with individual's instruction in core subjects
• Successfully work in a team environment
• Other duties as assigned

• CPI trained or willing to be trained in CPI
• Must meet Federal Standards of Every Student Succeeds Act re
• Good communications/collaboration skills with staff and studentsquirement:
  • 60 credit hours
  • Associates degree or higher
  • Pass a competency test (ETS Parapro Assessment)

• Reaching
  :
  Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Lifting
  :
  Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
• Grasping
  :
  Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Talking
  :
  Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken work; those activities where detailed or import spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing
  :
  Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motions
  :
  Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• The worker is subject to environmental conditions.
• The worker should provide consistent and reliable in person attendance.