Elementary Special Education Associate - Grades 3-5

Denison Community School District; Denison (IA); Sur place; USD 17 000 - 25 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Denison Community School District is seeking an Elementary Special Education Instructional Associate for Broadway Elementary (3rd–5th grades) in Denison, Iowa. The role focuses on supporting one or a few students with disabilities, providing physical and emotional support to help them participate in the district’s program.

Under the supervision of the special education teacher, you will reinforce material, assist with activities, and help maintain a safe, respectful classroom environment on a

Qualifications

• High school diploma required.
• Ability to work with administration, teachers, staff and students.
• Act as liaison between the public and the school to promote the image of the district.
• Assist students with physical tasks such as putting on/taking off outerwear, moving, toileting, etc.
• Hears students in recitation, reading, and other tasks with guidance but not teaching.
• Perform simple errands for students (pencils, lunch trays, etc.).
• Work under supervision of the special education teacher with small groups to reinforce material.
• Accompany students to the office or nurse as needed.
• Maintain supportive, non-intrusive relationship with students.
• Serve as resource to substitute teachers and participate in evaluation teams.
• Supervise playground and organize group activities.

Responsabilités

• Assists with the supervision of students during drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
• Keeps bulletin boards and classroom displays up to date.
• Reads to students and assists with reading activities.
• Assists with lunch, snack, cleanup, and wash-up routines.
• Guides independent study and enrichment work assigned by the teacher.
• Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and materials for instruction.
• Assists with testing and makes up work as assigned by the teacher.
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about a student.
• Maintains ethical behavior and confidentiality about students.

Connaissances

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Technology skills

Formation

High school diploma

Description du poste

Elementary Special Education Associate - Grades 3-5

Denison Community School District Broadway Elementary School - Denison, Iowa Open in Google Maps

Job Details

Job ID: 5969975

Application Deadline: Posted until filled

Posted: Oct 23, 2026 5:06 PM (UTC)

Job Description

Broadway Elementary Special Education Instructional Associate
3rd - 5th Grades

Position Goal
To work closely with one or a few handicapped pupils on a regular basis in an effort to provide them with the physical help and emotional support they need to gain as full benefits from the district's special education program as possible.

Reports to
Building Principal

Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education &/or Experience
High School diploma.

• Ability to work with the administration, teachers, staff and students.
• To act as a liaison between the public and the school, and in so doing promote the general image of the total school system.
• Assists the student(s) to whom assigned in such physical tasks as putting on and taking off of outerwear, moving from room to room, using the lavatory, and so on.
• Hears the student(s) in recitation, reading, and other curriculum tasks, guiding and helping them but not teaching them.
• Performs simple errands and tasks for student(s) such as sharpening pencils, carrying lunch trays, and the like.
• Under supervision of the special education teacher, works with small groups of students to reinforce material initially introduced by the teacher.
• Accompanies the student(s) to whom assigned when trips to the office or to the school nurse are necessary.
• Establishes as fully as possible a supportive and sympathetic relationship with the
• student(s) without fostering or encouraging intense emotional involvement.
• Serves as a resource person, if and when requested, to the student personnel evaluation team conferring about one of the students to whom assigned.
• Supervises students at playtime and maintains a harmonious atmosphere on the playground.
• Organizes group games and activities.
• Assumes responsibility for play equipment.
• Takes part in inservice training program.
• Directs movement of groups to and from the playground.
• Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
• Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
• Helps students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by teacher.
• Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction.
• Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
• Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
• Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up to date.
• Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and story telling.
• Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
• Assists students in the library or media center.
• Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and make up work, as assigned by the teacher.
• Assists with lunch, snack and cleanup routines.
• Assists with wash up and toilet routines.
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.

Communication Skills
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, lesson plans, and classroom materials. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to communicate with coworkers in a professional and courteous manner.

Analytical and Reasoning Skills
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to be flexible in coping with any situation that may arise.

Technology Skills
Must be able to operate a personal computer, use standard office applications. Must be able to use the computer to use email, complete required trainings, and enter time tracking information.

Physical Demands and Work Environment
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is occasionally loud.

Other Duties as Assigned
Will perform other duties as may be assigned by the superintendent or designee, necessary and appropriate to achievement of the program and/or District goals and objectives.

Terms of Employment
Salary and benefits to be determined by the Board of Education.

Evaluation
Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with the provisions of the Board's policy on evaluation of support services personnel.

Position Type: Full-time

Job Categories:
Special Education > General Special Education

Contact Information

• Human Resources
• 819 North 16th Street
• Denison, Iowa 51442
• Phone: [phone]
• Email: [e-mail]

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