Behavior Intervention Specialist/Special Education Assistant - Valley Charter Elementary School

Behavioral Interventionist

Valley Charter Schools' student population reflects the rich diversity of the San Fernando Valley, with families and community members providing invaluable and consistent support to the school. We are proud of the high degree of connection between the rhetoric of our mission statement and the actual classroom practice in our schools. Through our intentionally diverse design, Valley Charter School is becoming a national model for urban public education. Position Summary: Valley Charter Elementary School is looking for a behavioral interventionist to support students with social emotional and behavioral needs. We are seeking a candidate who has experience working as a BII, who is patient, resourceful, good at establishing positive relationships and who has good communication skills. Candidates must be able to work from 8:00am - 2:40pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday and from 8:00am - 1:00pm on Thursdays.

Responsibilities: - Work with the student directly during the school day by providing behavioral support based on goals identified in his IEP - Track and report on the student's behavior as directed by the Behavior Intervention Development Specialist (BID) - Support the student during recess time - Collaborate with the general education teacher and the BID to ensure that the needs of the student are being met - Communicate regularly with BID and teacher to discuss successes and challenges SALARY AND BENEFITS: Pay is $24-$26/hour depending on experience. Health benefits available.

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Special Education Assistant

Job Description

Definition: A Special Education Assistant assists teachers by caring for the academic, behavioral, and/or physical needs of students with disabilities and helping in their training and education through the presentation of educational materials or exercises.

Typical Duties:

• Performs a variety of activities pertinent to training, physical care, disciplining, and tutoring, in order to inculcate habits, knowledge, and skills in students with disabilities.
• Assists teachers in implementing lessons or portions of lessons to a student or a group of students, checks accuracy of work, and presents additional assignments as directed by a certificated teacher.
• Helps students to use books, classroom materials and equipment.
• Adjusts or re-phrases portions of texts and classroom instructions.
• Keeps routine records related to attendance, grades and test scores.
• Operates audio-visual equipment and prepares or uses other materials and methods to assist teachers in presenting lessons to students.
• Assists teachers in directing activities or assigned groups of students.
• Assists teachers in maintaining discipline and encouraging acceptable behavior by the students, and may work as a member of a team to implement the behavior support plan.
• Under the teacher's direction, participates in data collection on behaviors as part of behavior support plan development and implementation.
• Assists teachers in maintaining an environment conducive for learning and encouraging appropriate behavior by the students using a consistent team approach.
• Assists teachers in carrying out positive reinforcement procedures and reactive strategies identified in a behavior support plan, such as prompting student to switch to functionally equivalent replacement behavior and debriefing during the school day.
• Assists teachers on field trips by helping students with physical needs, maintaining discipline and reinforcing learning situations.
• May take notes for a student or students where designated in an IEP.
• Assists students with organizational support including recording assignments, documenting due dates, and providing prompts for upcoming quizzes and tests.
• Moves around in the classroom amongst the students, prompting students to attend to class activities, and checking behavior that may otherwise interfere with the learning process.
• May manage communication logs between the classroom and home -including faxing such documents.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

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