SPECIAL EDUCATION ASSISTANT

I. ACCOUNTABILITY OBJECTIVES:

Instructional: Under supervision of professional staff (teacher, therapist, speech clinician, etc.) may assist in teaching related activities which include, but are not limited to, record keeping, material processing, set-up, student assistance, tutoring and other related tasks which allow the teachers to increase the efficiency within the instructional program. Medical/physical: May provide assistance to specific individual students with medical/physical and/or personal needs which may include, but are not limited to, toileting, feeding, dressing, transferring/lifting and carrying students.

II. POSITION CHARACTERISTICS:

Salary: On schedule
Length of contract:  As assigned, specific to the position

III. POSITION RELATIONSHIPS:

Reports to: Building principal
Coordinates with: Building staff, students
Type of coordination:  As directed by administrator or others with coordination responsibilities

IV. POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:

  1. Desired training and experience: graduation from high school; possession or eligibility for a Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Certificate as a Special Education Aide.
  2. Special requirements of the position: 
    1. Ability to manage and relate to children with behavioral, learning, physical and medical problems. 
    2. Ability to communicate effectively.
    3. Ability to deal with confidentiality.
  3. Environmental/Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to fulfill responsibilities in all types of environmental conditions throughout the contractual year (i.e., recess/playground supervision, field trips, work sites). The employee will frequently be required to stand, walk, and occasionally run in most weather conditions. The employee may occasionally be required to fulfill responsibilities in extreme climate and temperatures (i.e., bus/transportation assistance and supervision). Occasionally, the position requires the employees to work in difficult environmental conditions in order to respond to the direct safety and well being of students. The information contained in the environmental requirements of the position are essential functions of the positions but do not represent an exhaustive list of duties; they are only suggestive of the qualifications necessary to fulfill this position.

Successful candidates for positions in this classification will be required to undergo a physical examination to determine ability to perform the environmental and physical requirements.

V. POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

  1. Carries out small group and tutorial instruction.
  2. Supervises students in a small group setting; administers classroom rules.
  3. Attends to medical/physical needs of students. May include feeding of students, toileting and diapering, dealing with seizures, handling of equipment such as prone standards (muscle inactivity so student is changed manually), wheel chairs and braces (how to refit once removed, how to use properly, and the physical lifting).
  4. Performs basic clerical duties such as operating of word processing program, record keeping, typing, etc.
  5. Assists in preparation of materials needed for classrooms, including duplication, lamination, etc.
  6. Performs general classroom duties as assigned in a special situation classroom
  7. Dispenses medications as assigned.
  8. Supervises students both in school and outside in a variety of situations during, before school, noon hour, playground and after school.
  9. Attends staffings, meetings, trainings when requested.
  10. Performs physical/medical procedures as required, which may include any of the following:
    • catheterization
    • tube feeding
    • Credeing (physically emptying the bladder for the student by applying pressure in the proper area.
    • Urostomy (changing bag from incision on side of body).
    • Cleaning of trachea tube (a compressor is inserted into the trachea tube and the body substance(s) is removed).
    • Adult hygiene especially for female care during menstruation.
    • Any others which may be required.
  11. Performs other duties as assigned.

New: 4/91
Revised: 2/96
Revised: 1/97
Revised: 10/98 (Changed title from Exceptional Education Assistant)