Teaching Associate: Special Education

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Primary Function:

To assist in establishing a well-organized, smoothly functioning educational environment in which students with and without disabilities can take full advantage of the instructional program, extra-curricular and co-curricular activities and other District resources.

Reports To:

• Assigned Teacher(s)
• Building Administrator(s)
• Director of Special Education
• Executive Director for Teaching and Learning

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

Salary:

$18.38 per hour

Qualifications:

• Professional Educator License OR Substitute License from ROE OR
• Paraprofessional License through the Illinois State Board of Education by:

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• Successful completion of sixty(60) semester hours of college or university coursework; or
• Hold an Associate's (or higher) college degree; or successfully pass the ACT WorkKeys Assessment Test or the ETS Paraprofessional Assessment Test along with a high school diploma or its equivalent.
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board of Education may find appropriate and acceptable.
• Pre-employment medical examination, including tuberculosis clearance
• Pass a Regional Office of Education Fingerprint/Background Clearance including Federal Bureau of Investigation

Physical Requirements:

• Appropriate strength to move and transport children, classroom furniture, instructional materials, and equipment from place to place.
• Ability to travel with children from place to place within a classroom, a building and outside on school grounds, or at school activities/functions at various locations.
• Endurance within a classroom setting; teaching students while standing, sitting, or walking throughout the classroom, building or outside activities with the ability to maneuver in tight spaces between desks, etc.
• Working with the students in an instructional setting may entail kneeling or squatting, stooping, and bending from the waist on an occasional to frequent basis on a given day.
• Ability to see, hear and comprehend directions provided in the English language.
• Ability to speak and write in the English language, to communicate to children and others in the school community.
• Ability to sit with children in chairs, or next to tables and desks.
• Ability to travel on student transportation.
• Use of aids such as whiteboards, posters, bulletin boards, overhead projector, television, VCR/DVD, computer, and technological equipment.
• Retrieval, use, lifting and storage of teaching material, including books, equipment, assignments, etc.

Physical Environment:

Typically, the assignment is inside, in a school environment, including classrooms, hallways and other common areas of a school building. The work also requires the Interventionist to work outdoors for student supervision, or for activities that are away from the school.

Term of Employment:

• 178 days
• 11 paid holiday
• Completion of mandated training through Global Compliance Network.
• FLSA Non Exempt Status

Evaluation:

Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with the provisions of the Board's policy on evaluation of Educational Support Personnel.