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Exceptional Children Services Instructional Assistant
Exceptional Children Services Instructional Assistant - Highly Structured Classroom
Job Goal: To implement the educational programs developed by the Special Education teacher.
Job Type: Classified
Class Code: 7318
Position Type: Salary
Reports to: Building Principal/Special Education Classroom Teacher/Director of Exceptional Children Services
Terms of Employment: Compensation will be determined based on 185 contract days on the board approved 105 salary schedule. This position requires a 7-hour workday.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Ability to work with children.
- Ability to work collaboratively with others.
- High school diploma.
- Passing Paraeducator exam or 48 college credit hours required.
- Experience with children in a group setting.
- Must be able to lift, push or pull 40 pounds and also be able to bend at the waist, kneel and reach above your head.
Performance Responsibilities:
- Provides assistance for the special education classroom teacher of exceptional students in the highly structured setting and general education setting.
- Assists the teacher in carrying out specially designed instructional programs for individual students.
- Complies with all Federal and State IDEA guidelines.
- Assists in classroom assessments, IEP data collection, grading, creating materials, individual and group instruction, and filing activities.
- Attend all required professional development and other meetings directly assigned to this position.
- Maintains classroom management and academics in the absence of the teacher.
- Assists students with technology used in the classroom and across school settings.
- Performs and documents necessary medically related services (such as feeding, meal prep, hygiene assistance, medication administration, toileting, etc.) for all students who receive nursing services.
- Other duties assigned by school administrators and/or supervising teacher(s).
Adopted: January 22, 1991 Revised: August 24, 1998, July 9, 2023, October 30, 2014, June 3, 2016, September 28, 2018, March 1, 2021, July 1, 2021, July 1, 2023, April 2026