Job Description
Exceptional Children Services Instructional Assistant - Highly Structured Classroom
Job Goal: To implement the educational programs developed by the Special Education teacher.
Job Type: Classified Job Class Code: 7318Position Type: SalaryReports to: Building Principal/Special Education Classroom Teacher/Director of Exceptional Children ServicesTerms of Employment: Compensation will be determined based on 185 contract days on the board approved 109 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, May 2026