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Education Assistant - Cognitive Impairment JobID: 3955
Position Type:
Support Staff/Special Education Assistant
Date Posted:
4/14/2026
Location:
High School North Building
Date Available:
Immediately
Closing Date:
Open until filled
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Notice of Support Staff Posting
Position: Education Assistant Cognitive Impairment Posting # 3955
- West Ottawa High School - North
Posting Dates: April 14, 2026 Until Filled
Reports To: Principal
Beginning: Immediately
Hours: 35 hours per week
7:35 a.m. to 2:53 p.m.
Full Time / School Year
Job Responsibilities:
- Assistance with students with various disabilities in categorical classrooms
- Knowledge of behavioral strategies
- Work closely with teachers to collaborate on accommodations and IEP requirements
- Assist classroom teachers with individual's instruction in core subjects
- Successfully work in a team environment
- Other duties as assigned
Other Information:
- CPI trained or willing to be trained in CPI
- Must meet Federal Standards of Every Student Succeeds Act re
- Good communications/collaboration skills with staff and studentsquirement:
- 60 credit hours
- Associates degree or higher
- Pass a competency test (ETS Parapro Assessment)
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
- Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
- Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken work; those activities where detailed or import spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
- Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
- The worker is subject to environmental conditions.
- The worker should provide consistent and reliable in person attendance.