Special Education Aide – PALS (Autism) – Site-Based, 7h

Grants-Pass-Sd-7; Grants Pass (OR); On-site; USD 28,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Continuing Education Funds

Insurance contributions toward medical

Paid holidays

Personal days

Sick leave

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Grants Pass School District No. 7 is seeking a Special Education Educational Assistant for Riverside Elementary's site-based PALS program, 7 hours per day, 182 days per year.

Knowledge of autism preferred; bilingual Spanish a plus. The role involves applying ABA-informed strategies, supporting students with significant challenges, and collaborating with teachers to design engaging learning experiences.

Qualifications

• Equivalent to completion of the twelfth grade. Also, one of the following three options: Two years of college study; An associate's (or higher) degree; A passing score on the District's reading, writing and math assessment.
• Preferred: supplemented by college level work or special vocational training in Special Education principles and practices, behavior management, and/or procedures related to basic physical/medical needs and personal hygiene.
• Two years of responsible instructional assistance experience, preferably involving contact with students who have some form of learning or physical disability or special cultural, social/behavioral needs.
• Assists in the planning and implementing of specialized learning experiences of students enrolled in the program: confers with teacher.
• Duties may involve clerical work and other duties as assigned.
• Bilingual and biliterate in Spanish preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assists in the planning and implementing of specialized learning experiences of students enrolled in the program: confers with teacher.
• Other duties may be ordering, preparing, record keeping, monitoring, typing filing, duplicating, evaluation, correcting, other clerical work and other duties as assigned.
• Duties may involve working with students who need feeding, support with toileting challenges, as well as social/communication/sensory differences that may lead to challenging behaviors.
• Establish and maintain cooperative relationships with fellow employees and ability to get along well with students.
• Upon selection, employees will be required to pay fingerprinting fees.

Skills

Bilingual (Spanish)

Autism experience

Instructional assistant experience

Education

Equivalent to completion of the twelfth grade

Two years of college study

An associate's (or higher) degree

A passing score on the District's reading, writing and math assessment

Job description

Grants Pass School District No. 7 is seeking a Special Education Educational Assistant for Riverside Elementary's site-based PALS program, 7 hours per day, 182 days per year.

Knowledge of autism preferred; bilingual Spanish a plus. The role involves applying ABA-informed strategies, supporting students with significant challenges, and collaborating with teachers to design engaging learning experiences.