Special Education Assistant

Special Education Assistant

Giles County School District, TN – Southside Elementary School, Pulaski, Tennessee

Position Type: Full-Time

• Not less than a high school diploma or general equivalency diploma (copy of diploma or transcript must be submitted upon employment), and proof of additional training:
  Associates Degree or a minimum of 48 semester hours of higher level education, or pass a state‑mandated equivalency test.
• Meets health and physical requirements.

To assist teachers in providing specialized academic and physical training to students with disabilities.

• Attend to the student’s personal needs (including, but not limited to, the changing of diapers) of the qualifying student.
• Help students to walk, board buses, put on prosthetic appliances, eat, dress, and perform other physical activities as needed.
• Provide clerical assistance to teachers and others.
• Assist with student management.
• Set up and operate learning/development equipment and materials.
• Tutor students.
• Assume responsibility for knowing and following the safety rules and proper procedures associated with the responsibilities of the job.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Lifting objects that may exceed fifty (50) pounds or the average weight of a student.
• Pushing and/or pulling.
• Climbing.
• Stooping, kneeling and/or crawling.
• Reaching.
• Talking.
• Hearing.
• Seeing.

• Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure.
• Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an activity.
• Adaptability to dealing with students.
• Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria.

• Intelligence:
  Ability to understand instructions and underlying principles; ability to reason and make judgments.
• Verbal:
  Ability to understand meanings of words and the ideas associated with them.
• Form Perception:
  Ability to make visual comparisons and discriminations, see slight differences in shapes and shading of figures, widths, and lengths of lines.
• Manual Dexterity:
  Ability to move hands easily and manipulate small objects with the fingers.
• Color Discrimination:
  Ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color.

Normal working environment – usually 180 school days from 7:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Identified special need(s) of student(s) may require the normal work hours to change.

Non‑Exempt from the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act in regard to earning (and being appropriately paid) time and a half for all work over forty hours in the defined work week (defined as Sunday 12:00 a.m. to the following Saturday at 11:59 p.m.).

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be a complete list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so assigned.