Extra Care Assistant - 7 hours/day
About The Position
This role involves providing support to students, working individually or with small groups under the direction of a supervising teacher. Responsibilities include preparing materials, collecting data on student performance, assisting in student supervision, reinforcing rules, and supporting students' specific learning needs. The role also involves assisting with students' physical care, including feeding, toileting, and self-help tasks, and potentially dealing with physical impairments, mobility, and positioning. Additional duties include supervising students in various school settings and assisting with their integration into general education classes.
Requirements
- Paraprofessional Approval issued by ISBE
- Basic knowledge in appropriate academic areas
- Basic knowledge of students’ physical condition, if applicable
- Promptness and excellent attendance
- Positive attitude
- High level of personal fitness
- Sound judgment
- Ability to work well with administration, faculty, students and parents
Nice To Haves
- Practice superior work habits and ethics
- Produce excellent quality of work
- Adaptable when necessary
- With appropriate training, be prepared to deal with students’ physical impairments as directed
Responsibilities
- Work individually or with small groups under the direction of the supervising teacher
- Help prepare teacher-made materials
- Collect classroom data/information on student performance
- Assist in the supervision of students
- Reinforce classroom/building rules as specified by the teacher/building administrator
- Accompany students to other instructional areas as directed
- Support students’ specific learning needs and/or requests for assistance with academic tasks
- Reinforce good personal and social habits
- Assist in maintaining health and safety of all students
- Perform clerical duties, including learning to operate any necessary equipment
- Operate or learn to operate audio-visual equipment as needed
- Demonstrate positive interpersonal relations with students
- Supervise students at breakfast, lunch, recess, in bus lines, and other unstructured school environment settings
- Provide direct service for feeding
- Provide assistant getting on and off the bus
- Assist in integration of students into general education classes
- Attend in-services as provided through Special Education regulations
- Correct disruptive behavior constructively and consistently as identified in individualized behavior plan
- Provide for students’ individual needs as prescribed in IEP and directed by teacher
- Assist with students’ physical care as needed
- Assist with toileting
- Assist with self-help tasks
- Assist with mobility
- Assist with assistive technology
- Assist with positioning and repositioning of wheelchair
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
