Behavior Technician Early Childhood Special Education

Overview

Position Title:

Behavior Technician

Location:

Early Childhood Center
Department:
Special Education

Reports To:

Building-level Principal
Term:
Ongoing position beginning with the 2025-26 School Year

Schedule:

Mon-Fri Full-time. Roughly 6.5 hours/day.
Salary:
Position follows the  Classified Salary Schedule

The Behavior Technician (BT) assists educators at the preschool level within the district’s specialized programs. The BT assists learners with daily instructional and non-instructional activities and also provides skills instruction and behavior reduction protocols to learners with disabilities under the supervision of the classroom teacher and special programs principal.

• Develops positive, effective working relationships with learners and staff.
• Assists educators in routine classroom operation, daily activities and assignments.
• Maintains classroom by assisting educator with daily organization.
• Acts as a liaison between resource and content area classroom.
• Assists paraprofessionals in other programs when needed.
• Prompts safe and socially acceptable replacement behaviors to build communication, social interaction, and problem-solving skills.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with learners by pairing self as a reinforcer.
• Connects and shares ideas through appropriate formats to express thoughts and ideas with integrity.
• Fosters learner independence and works toward reducing reliance on paraprofessional support.
• Demonstrates understanding of learner’s disability, is courteous, respectful, and fair.
• Acts as a communication liaison between learner and educator.
• Understands cultural and global issues and how they relate to employee and learners’ experiences.
• Partners with others to resolve potential controversy and conflict through respectful discussion.
• Proactively seeks to understand the ideas, opinions, and skills of others.
• Demonstrates initiative and creativity with learners and their program(s).
• Connects with team members and shares ideas to improve the learner and employee experience.
• Fades prompts appropriately to promote both successful and independent responding.
• Increases the frequency or duration of safe and appropriate replacement behaviors by providing access to reinforcers.
• Regulates behavior management of learner at the direction of the special education educator and in accordance with the learner’s behavioral plan.
• Reasons, interprets, and analyzes information to generate new knowledge and understanding.
• Maintains communication with supervisor regarding feedback, career advancement opportunities, and growth opportunities.
• Completes required trainings and passes competency assessments to maintain technical knowledge.
• Maintains composure in stressful situations and proactively seeks resolutions to knowledge gaps.
• Implements learners’ positive behavior support plans with fidelity as specified by educator and support staff.
• Provides skills instruction and behavior reduction protocols under supervision of classroom educator and behavior specialist.
• Accurately collects observable behavior data (Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence, count, frequency, duration, latency, inter-response time, event, and interval-based recording).
• Provides structure by conducting daily lesson plans set up by educator.
• Provides playground and noon duty supervision as directed by the building principal.

• High School Diploma or GED. Associate’s Degree is preferred. Experience in a preschool setting and with complex learner behaviors is preferred.
• Ability to read, write, and comprehend simple instructions and short correspondences in English; effective verbal communication.
• Exercise confidentiality, discretion, and good judgment; adhere to regular attendance.
• Ability to work with diverse learners and understanding of cultural and global considerations related to learners and staff.

• Regularly required to reach with hands and arms; stand, walk, bend, talk, and hear.
• Vision abilities include close and peripheral vision.
• May lift up to 25 pounds regularly and up to 50 pounds occasionally; may push/pull up to 120 pounds with training.
• Two-person transport, restraint, or lift may…