2026-2027 Behavior Technician for Early Childhood Special Education

Behavior Technician

Location:

Early Childhood Center

Department:
Special Education

Reports To:

Building Principal

Term:
Ongoing position beginning with 2026-27 school year.

Schedule:

Mon-Fri Full-time. Approx. 6.5 hours/day

Salary:
Position follows the Classified Salary Schedule  rting salary begins at $19.95-$22.95/hour, based on experience.

Date of last review:
June 2026

Summary:

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.

Qualification Requirements:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and requirement satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required for the role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaboration:
  
  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.
• Communication:
  Prompts safe and socially acceptable replacement behaviors in order to build a repertoire of communication, social interaction, and problem-solving skills. Establishes & maintains relationship with learners by pairing self as a reinforcer. Connects and shares ideas through appropriate/applicable formats to express thoughts and ideas with integrity.
• Compassion:
  Fosters learner independence and works toward reducing and/or eliminating 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 the complexities of 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.
• Creativity:
  Demonstrates initiative and creativity with learners and their program(s). Connects with team members and shares ideas in an effort to improve the overall learner and employee experience.
• Critical Thinking:
  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 (desired items/actions, attention, or removal of demands/aversive situations). Consistently regulates behavior management of learner at the direction of the special education educator and in accordance with learner's behavioral plan. Reasons, interprets, and analyzes information to generate new knowledge and understanding.
• Reflection:
  Maintains communication with supervisor and director regarding general feedback, career advancement opportunities, and areas of growth opportunities.
• Resilience:
  Maintains composure while dealing with stressful situations. Proactively seeks out resolutions and takes initiative to resolve knowledge gaps.
• Responsibility:
  Implements learners positive behavior support plans with fidelity as specified by educator and support staff. Provides skills instruction and behavior reduction protocols to learners with disabilities under the supervision of the classroom educator and behavior specialist within the district's specialized programs. Accurately collects observable behavior data including Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence, count, frequency, duration, latency, inter-response time, event, and interval-based recording. Provides structure by consistently conducting daily lesson plans set up by educator.
  
  Provides playground and noon duty supervision as directed by the building principal.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:
The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the essential duties and responsibilities of this role, the employee is regularly required to reach with hands and arms.

While performing the essential duties and responsibilities of this role, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, bend, talk, and hear. The specific vision abilities required for this role include close and peripheral vision. The employee may frequently lift up to ~25 pounds without assistance. The employee may…