Bridgeton Public Schools
Job Description
POSITION:
Instructional Aide – Special Education
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Associates Degree required;
- Experience with educationally disabled pupils preferred;
- Knowledge of child growth and development;
- Appropriate classroom practices;
- Good oral and written communication skills.
- Required criminal history background check and proof of U.S. citizenship or legal resident alien status.
REPORTS TO:
Principal/Classroom Teacher
JOB GOAL:
To aid the teacher in carrying out the educational program with identified students.
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Is responsible for assuming a tutorial role for individual special education students or small groups of special education children.
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Carries out the instructional program as outlined by the teacher. Non-instructional tasks directly related to the instructional aide’s instructional responsibility shall be his/her duty to execute.
- Clarifies teacher’s directions to individuals.
- Assures that assigned work is completed.
- Helps with seat work after the teacher has taught the class or group a specific skill.
- Assists a student in a specific area of study, individually or in a small group.
- Communicates with students to help them discover how to apply learned skills to real-life situations outside the classroom.
- Prepares teaching aids and other instructional material as required.
- Assists in the execution of the daily lessons as prescribed by the teacher.
- Performs special assignments as prescribed by the building principal.
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Attends meetings and conferences regarding pupils when deemed appropriate by the building principal.
- Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work assigned by the teacher.
- Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
- Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students as prescribed by the teacher.
- Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and make-up work, as assigned by the teacher.
- Helps very young students with their clothing, snack time routine, and toileting activities.
- Participates in in-service training as assigned.
- Reinforce skills taught in classrooms by teachers.
- Provide support to students and teachers when students go to the community for the purpose of community based instructions when required.
- Performs other duties as prescribed by the Board of Education.
TERM OF EMPLOYMENT:
10 MONTHS. Salary to be determined by the Board of Education.
EVALUATION:
Performance will be evaluated in accordance with Board of policies and procedures on the evaluation of paraprofessional staff.
Et 4-24-03
Revised on 07/31/2019.EA.
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