IEP-Focused Special Education Assistant

Dickson County Schools; Tennessee; On-site; USD 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Dickson County Schools is seeking a Special Education Assistant to support students under the direction of certified staff. The role involves delivering instructional interventions, assisting with IEP goals, and managing daily student health and safety tasks.

The position requires flexibility for various activities within a 200-day contract and 10-month calendar. Collaboration with teachers, administrators, and families is essential to support educational outcomes.

Qualifications

• Delivers educational instruction and interventions designed by general and special education teachers to help students meet goals.
• Ability to be flexible and adapt to changing situations.
• Attend to health and physical needs of students as outlined in each IEP.

Responsibilities

• Delivers educational instruction and interventions designed by general and special education teachers to help students meet educational, academic, life skill, behavioral, physical, social, and emotional goals.
• Ability to be flexible and adapt to changing situations.
• Ability to organize materials and use time effectively.
• Ability to remain calm while working with students in crisis.
• Ability to utilize district-approved de-escalation strategies when working with students in crisis.
• Attend to the unique health and physical needs of students, which may include feeding, dressing, self-care, toileting, diapering, and other activities of daily living.
• May conduct classes in the teacher's absence or during emergencies, focusing on re-teaching rather than introducing new material.
• Escort students to and from designated areas for lunch, recess, activities, work programs, arrival and dismissal, as well as field trips.
• Ability to lift, carry, push, or pull up to 45 pounds, and perform tasks such as standing, sitting, walking, bending, stooping, or kneeling.
• Ability to navigate the school facility.
• Ability to operate standard office equipment and relevant technology and applications.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including reading and understanding documentation, instructions, policies, and procedures, and communicating effectively with students, and parents/guardians, co-workers, and supervisors.
• Capacity to make informed and autonomous decisions in the absence of supervision.
• Other duties as assigned by the supervising teacher, principal, or Director of Special Education.

Skills

Instructional support

Behavioral interventions

IEP knowledge

Crisis de-escalation

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Dickson County Schools is seeking a Special Education Assistant to support students under the direction of certified staff. The role involves delivering instructional interventions, assisting with IEP goals, and managing daily student health and safety tasks.

The position requires flexibility for various activities within a 200-day contract and 10-month calendar. Collaboration with teachers, administrators, and families is essential to support educational outcomes.