Special Education Aide - Yale Elementary

Job Title

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