Impactful Special Education Paraeducator - Level 2/3

Young World Physical Education; Glenwood (IA); On-site; USD 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Glenwood Community School District in Glenwood, Iowa, is accepting applications for a Special Education Paraeducator Level 2/3 to support students with special needs within the district. The role focuses on assisting teachers, maintaining a positive learning environment, and facilitating developmentally appropriate activities.

The position requires a high school diploma or equivalent, with a preference for prior experience with students who have special needs.

Qualifications

• Prefer previous experience working with children who have special needs.
• High school diploma or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Attendance is necessary to be successful in this position.
• Demonstrates respect for the dignity of the sensitivity to the needs of students with disabilities.
• Ability to develop effective working relationships with students, staff, and the school community.
• Attends training/inservice opportunities as required.
• Keeps information related to individual children and families confidential.
• Check e-mail daily. E-mail teacher progress reports three times per week, for the students you assist in general education classes.
• Performs errands and tasks for students only if they cannot do it themselves.
• Under supervision of the special education teacher, works with individuals or small groups to work on lessons initially introduced by the special education teacher.
• Accompanies the student(s) as needed 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 child's staffing team conferring about one of the students to whom assigned.
• Ability to regularly lift 40 pounds and push/pull up to 100 pounds.
• Assists the student(s) to whom assigned in such physical tasks as putting on and taking off outerwear, moving from room to room, and using the lavatory.
• Assists with loading and unloading of buses.
• Lifts or assists with lifting students from wheelchairs to changing table, beds, or other designated areas.
• Collects and records data according to established criteria determined by the classroom teacher.
• Accompanies students individually or in groups on mobility functions to reinforce life and work skills.
• Takes all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, materials and facilities.
• Sanitizes classrooms and equipment using approved materials and methods.
• Provides personal hygiene activities with students, including appropriate response to various body fluids.
• Assists teacher in maintaining discipline and follows through on prescribed behavioral management programs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Glenwood Community School District in Glenwood, Iowa, is accepting applications for a Special Education Paraeducator Level 2/3 to support students with special needs within the district. The role focuses on assisting teachers, maintaining a positive learning environment, and facilitating developmentally appropriate activities.

The position requires a high school diploma or equivalent, with a preference for prior experience with students who have special needs.