Special Education Teacher Aide

Special Education Teacher Aide

Bruce Guadalupe Elementary - Milwaukee, WI

The Special Education Teacher Assistant supports students with disabilities by assisting the special education teacher in implementing individualized education plans (IEPs) and providing academic, behavioral, and social-emotional support. This role ensures students can access and participate meaningfully in the school environment. The assistant works closely with teachers, service providers, and families to promote student independence, safety, and learning. This role works under the direction of the School Principal, Director of Special Education, and assigned Special Education Teacher, and requires collaboration with the Special Education Teacher and classroom teachers.

UCC School staff are dedicated, compassionate, highly effective, reflective, collaborative, culturally responsive, and committed to the academic and social-emotional development of all students.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Works collaboratively with Special Education Teacher assist students towards goals in IEP
• Teach students to think through problems in Mathematics, Reading and other areas identified in IEP
• Administers test, and records results while collaborating with Special Education and classroom teachers
• Assigns lessons corrects paper, and hears oral presentations
• Teaches rules of conduct
• Maintains order in classroom
• Counsel's pupil's when adjustment and academic problems arise
• Discusses pupil's academic and behavioral attitudes and achievements with parents
• Keeps attendance and records as required by school and IEPs
• Participates in class field trips with identified students as needed
• Attends meetings, conferences, and in-service, and participates in special events of the school and the agency

CHILD GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT:

• Uses knowledge of the principles of child growth and development to work with children and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Implements a child-centered curriculum and learning environment that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation to promote development in all domains for children of all abilities.
• Addresses challenging behaviors by observing to determine possible causes of the behavior, implementing preventive measures, teaching the child new social and communication skills and partnering with families to support the child at home.
• Uses observations of children and anecdotal notes to document children's progress and individualize curriculum.
• Creates partnerships with families to establish positive interaction patterns in program, school, and home.

The Special Education Teacher Assistants' responsibilities also fall within the following core functions, although s/he may perform other tasks as needed:

• Planning
• Program Implementation
• Family Partnerships
• Communication and Service Coordination
• Record Keeping and Reporting
• On-going Monitoring and Self-Assessment
• Supervision and Human Resources
• Planning and implementing learning experiences that advance the intellectual and physical development of children, including improving the readiness of children for school by developing their literacy and phonemic, print, and numeracy awareness, their understanding and use of language, their understanding and use of increasingly complex and varied vocabulary, their appreciation of books, and their problem-solving abilities.
• Establishing and maintaining a safe, healthy learning environment.
• Supporting the social and emotional development of children.
• Encouraging the involvement of the families of the children in a Head Start program and supporting the development of relationships between children and their families.

PLANNING:

• Will assist in ensuring that the written curriculum includes:
• goals for children's development and learning;
• the experiences through which children will achieve these goals;
• what staff and parents can do to help children achieve these goals;
• the materials needed to support the implementation of the curriculum towards achieving the stated goals
• Responsible for collaborating with the teacher in the preparation of daily lesson plans. Post them for parents, volunteers and visitors in the classroom
• Will assist in the development of individual plans for each child including goal-setting based on identified needs and prescriptions for objectives and activities to meet established child outcomes.

PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION:

• Follow program curriculum providing developmentally and linguistically appropriate experiences appropriate to age, language and culture of children served.
• Provide positive guidance and discipline supporting children as they acquire readiness skills for kindergarten and beyond.
• Implement daily lesson plans in response to children's needs and interests incorporating observations, anecdotal record keeping, knowledge of early childhood development and the key experiences.
• Implement Individual Family Services Plans (IFSPs) for children with disabilities.
• Provide children with a consistent…