Job Title: Special Education Aide-RESET

Wage/Hour Status: Non-Exempt

Reports to: Principal Pay Grade:  CP3

Dept./School: Assigned Campus 

Annual Work Days Scheduled:  187

Primary Purpose:

ISET (Intensive Social Emotional Teaching) is designed to support students who have significant social, emotional, and behavioral needs. Students require specialized and intensive academic and behavioral instruction in self-contained special education settings with a continued focus on supporting student skill development to enable them to successfully transition into general education settings. 

Qualifications:

Education/Certification:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Valid Texas Education Aide Certification Preferred

Special Knowledge/Skills:

• Ability to work well with children with disabilities
• Ability to follow verbal and written directives
• Ability to  communicate effectively

Experience:

• Two years experience working with children

Major Responsibilities and Duties:

Student Management

1. Help meet the individual needs of students, including transferring them to and from wheelchairs, lifting and positioning them, and signing or interpreting instructions for them, etc.
2.  Help students take care of physical needs and personal care including feeding, bathroom needs, and personal hygiene.
3. Help manage the behavior of assigned students.  This includes intervening in crisis situations and restraining disruptive or dangerous student behavior as needed.
4. Assume responsibility for learning and adapting to each student’s special medical, physical, communicative, and emotional needs.
5. Work with assigned students or small groups to develop motor skills and conduct instructional exercises assigned by the teacher.
6. Assist assigned students throughout the school day, inside and outside the classroom.  This includes lunchroom, bus, and playground duty.
7. Keep teachers informed of special needs or problems of assigned students.

Instructional Support

1. Assist teacher in preparing instructional materials and classroom displays.
2. Help maintain a neat and orderly classroom.
3. Help with inventory, care and maintenance of equipment.
4. Help teacher keep administrative records and prepared required reports
5. Provide orientation and assistance to substitute teachers. 

  Other

1. Maintain confidentiality.                                                                           

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None.

Working Conditions:

Tools/Equipment Used: Personal computer and peripherals; wheelchair lift, ramp, and other instructional equipment that may be required by student need

Posture: Prolonged standing; frequent kneeling/squatting, bending/stooping, pushing/pulling, and twisting

Motion: Frequent walking

Lifting: May require regular heavy lifting (45 pounds or more) and positioning of students with physical disabilities, control behavior through physical restraint, assist non ambulatory students, and lift and move adaptive and other classroom equipment; may work prolonged or irregular hours

Environment: Exposure to biological hazards

Mental Demands: Maintain emotional control under stress