CDHS - Contract Assistant

Overview

Teaching assistant working with a special needs student.

• Score and record such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual student(s).
• Work with individual student(s) to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Assist the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on systematic understanding of individual student(s), their needs, interests and abilities.
• Guide independent study and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
• Check notebooks, correct papers and supervise testing and makeup work, as assigned by the teacher.
• Assist with activities such as drill work, reading aloud and story telling.
• Alert the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• Maintain the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about student(s) as is expected of a fully licensed teacher.
• Participate in in-service training programs, as assigned.
• Provide IEP service for student(s) with IQs below 40 under the supervision of a Special Education teacher.
• Feed student(s) or supervise meal time.
• Provide physical contact as necessary to move the non-ambulatory and to restrain aggressive, hostile, physically threatening behavior.
• Provide custodial care involving contact with urine, feces and blood.
• Assist with other duties as directed.
• Be available for transporting (example: driver, attendant) student(s) on IEP mandated community training.
• Assist in behavioral management and data collection of student(s) as instructed by the IEP team.