Teacher's Assistant

Mykidsunlimited; Town of Farmington (WI); On-site; USD 24,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Miracle Kids Success Academy (MKSA) / Kids Unlimited Learning Academy (KULA) seeks enthusiastic educators to deliver an exciting, challenging experience for children with special needs. You will foster cognitive, social-emotional, and motor growth throughout the day in a nurturing, patient-centered environment.

Our team includes licensed therapists and nurses, and we provide comprehensive developmental screening and evaluations to support each child.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent is required.
• CDA preferred.
• Prefer at least one year of successful classroom experience with developmentally at-risk children.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of people.
• Must work with children birth to age 18 and families at risk.

Responsibilities

• Assist in classroom activities and prepare materials.
• Support cognitive, social-emotional and motor skill development.
• Maintain organized, safe, clean learning spaces.
• Collaborate with licensed therapists and staff to meet needs.

Skills

Effective communication

Multitasking

Professionalism

Team collaboration

Reading/comprehension

Problem solving

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

CDA preferred

Tools

Database

Word processing

Spreadsheet

Internet software

Job description

We are seeking enthusiastic educators to create an exciting & challenging experience for children with special needs. Help prepare young children for meaningful lives by teaching cognitive, social-emotional and motor skills throughout the day. Join our culture of patient-centered care.

Miracle Kids Success Academy (MKSA) & Kids Unlimited Learning Academy (KULA) is an early intervention day treatment clinic for children with special needs. Once children are referred to MKSA/KULA by their primary care physicians, they must receive a developmental screening. Then, they may be scheduled for therapy evaluations at MKSA/KULA or bring recent therapy evaluation reports done elsewhere. To receive Early Intervention Day Treatment habilitation services, a child must have a documented developmental disability or delay, as shown on the results of an annual comprehensive developmental evaluation and qualify for at least one therapy service. Those services include (but are not limited to) fine motor delays, sensory disorders, gross motor delays, speech-language delays, hearing disorders, feeding disorders, developmental delays, cognitive delays and medical needs.

Children are placed in treatment rooms based on their developmental needs and ages. Our treatment rooms are adequately staffed with teachers and teachers' assistants and are designed to celebrate the cultural differences of the children and families we serve. MKSA/KULA has many licensed occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech-language pathologists on staff to provide needed care to the children who qualify for therapy services. And, MKSA/KULA has nurses on staff to serve children with medical needs.

MKSA/KULA's services also include developmental/psychological testing by a licensed psychologist, nutritional evaluations and consultations, and audiological evaluations. Our whole treatment team works together and with our patients' families to make sure each child's needs are met.

MKSA/KULA typically treats children from birth to Kindergarten. However, we try to expand our services during the summer months to include elementary school-aged children with special needs.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education/ Certification:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• CDA preferred.

Experience/ Knowledge required:

• Prefer at least one year of successful experience in a classroom setting working with developmentally at-risk children or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Skills/ Abilities:

• Ability to communicate effectively and professionally with a wide variety of people.
• Must be able to work with children birth to age 18 and families who are at risk.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Basic computer skills which includes a working knowledge of database, word processing, spreadsheet, and Internet software.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a very busy environment.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide, in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Miracle Kids Success Academy/Kids Unlimited Learning Academy provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.