Cleveland High School Instructional Assistant (Special Populations)

Cleveland City Schools•Cleveland, TN

21h•Onsite

About The Position

Assists with the implementation of strategies to meet the needs of students with disabilities. This role involves supporting students with their instruction, personal needs, and classroom activities under the guidance of a special education teacher. The assistant will help reinforce learning, manage student behavior, and ensure student confidentiality.

Requirements

Associate Degree or passing score on paraprofessional test
Ability to communicate effectively with students and school personnel
Ability to maintain a cooperative, harmonious relationship within the school setting which fosters recognition and respect for every individual
Ability to understand instructions and underlying principles and ability to reason and make judgments
Ability to understand meanings of words and the ideas associated with them
Ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately
Ability to move hands easily and manipulate small objects with the fingers rapidly and accurately
Ability to make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures

Responsibilities

Assists with student instruction to meet the goals/objectives of the IEP
Provides support for the special education and general education teachers
Attends to the personal needs of special education students such as eating, dressing, toileting and/or diapering, walking, getting on and off buses, putting on or adjusting prosthetic appliances, physical and occupational therapy exercises (as instructed by an occupational or physical therapist), and other tasks and activities as assigned by the supervising special education teacher
Maintains student confidentiality, as mandated by both State and Federal law, at all times
Defers all inquiries or concerns from parents, teachers or other staff members regarding student(s) to the school administrator or supervising special education teacher
Assists with student management
Works with small groups of special education students to reinforce material initially introduced by the teacher
Assists student(s) in math, reading, and other curricular tasks, as directed by the supervising teacher, guiding and helping, but never assuming the role of the teacher
Assists special education students who participate in general education classes for all or any portion of the day, as directed by the supervising special education teacher
Accompanies the student(s) to whom assigned to various points about the school and campus as directed by supervising special education teacher
Operates and cares for equipment and materials used in the classroom for instructional purposes
Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, play periods, field trips, and other school-related activities
Performs other duties as assigned by the supervising special education teacher or appropriate administrator