Special Education Assistant - Resource/General Education

Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation•Evansville, IN

2d•$16 - $23•Onsite

About The Position

Special Education Assistants work throughout the school year, beginning one day before school begins and ending on the last day of school. Enjoy your summers off! The schedule is 5 days per week at 7.25 hours per day and follows the EVSC School Board of Trustees approved school calendar. This includes 27+paid holidays throughout the school year! Additionally, Special Ed Assistants follow a salary schedule that provides an annual increase every year! This position is a Resource/General Education position. While employees will work in an assigned category, employees shall be required to support the needs of all students when necessary.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED required.
Additionally, all new employees are required to complete required online professional development within 60 days of employment.
Ability to work with special needs students.
Ability to maintain composure under stressful conditions.
Ability to develop effective working relationships with students, staff and the school community.
Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
Ability to perform duties with awareness of all district requirements and board of school trustees policies.
Ability to read, analyze and interpret technical procedures, textbooks, and government regulations (Article 7).
Ability to write reports and general correspondence.
Ability, both orally and in writing, to present information effectively and respond appropriately to questions and concerns from individuals and groups of educators, administrators, parents, students, and the general public.
Ability always to communicate using correct grammar.
Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability, and statistical inference.
Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
Ability to define problems, collect and analyze data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form and to understand abstract and concrete variables.
Ability to use available information and develop realistic long-term and short-term plans for curricular goals.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be required to lift students and reach with hands and arms.
Frequently is required to stand, walk, sit, see, talk or hear.
Occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
Frequently required to bend at the trunk more than the average person.
Depending upon the class assignment, the employee may be required to lift or move up to 100 pounds such as to move students and equipment on wheels.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and peripheral vision.
Needs to be able to tell where a sound is coming from and hear in a noisy environment.
In positions including interpreting, use of the hands is a constant activity.

Nice To Haves

In specific program areas, other skills may be required, i.e., brailling skills in vision area, interpreting skills in hearing area.

Responsibilities

Assist teacher in routine classroom operation by working with students.
Prepare planned instructional materials, attendance reports and class reports.
Supervise students involved in non classroom activities; recess, lunch, room transitions, etc.
Implement/follow teacher instructions of classroom procedures.
Make appropriate referrals when teacher is not readily available.
Assist with clerical duties such as inventory, bulletin boards, collecting money, etc.
Demonstrate an understanding of students' unique needs.
Keep records, write lessons on the board, support students' work.
Assist with loading and unloading of students on buses.
In specific classes, will feed, toilet, and manage self-care needs.
Responsibilities may include non-medical procedures concerning personal hygiene of the students in addition to g-tube feedings.
While employees will work in an assigned category, employees shall be required to support the needs of all students when necessary.
Maintain regular attendance.

Benefits

Summers off
Holidays
Predictable hours
Competitive salaries
Excellent health coverage
Robust retirement plans
Generous paid time off
Single medical, dental and vision insurance are provided
Employees may pay the additional cost to add family members.
EVSC Health & Wellness Centers provide primary care services, generic prescription medications, physicals, health screenings, and labs; all at NO COST to the employee or covered family member.
12 Sick days are provided annually and accumulate each year
27+ Holidays!
3 Personal Business Days are provided annually and accumulate each year
Snow Days: Stay at home on a snow day and receive pay!
EVSC Wee Care Learning Centers provide a quality early learning experience for employees' children as young as six weeks through age five at a special employee rate.
Public Employees' Retirement Fund (PERF) through the state of Indiana, which includes a defined benefit (Pension) as well as an Annuity Savings Account (ASA).
403(b) Plan
EVSC group life insurance
Long term disability plans
Voluntary insurance products through American Fidelity
Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)