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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:
- Desired training and experience: graduation from high school;
possession or eligibility for a Wisconsin Department of Public
Instruction Certificate as a Special Education Aide.
- Special requirements of the position:
- Ability to manage and relate to children with behavioral,
learning, physical and medical problems.
- Ability to communicate effectively.
- Ability to deal with confidentiality.
- 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:
- Carries out small group and tutorial instruction.
- Supervises students in a small group setting; administers classroom
rules.
- 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).
- Performs basic clerical duties such as operating of word processing
program, record keeping, typing, etc.
- Assists in preparation of materials needed for classrooms, including
duplication, lamination, etc.
- Performs general classroom duties as assigned in a special situation
classroom
- Dispenses medications as assigned.
- Supervises students both in school and outside in a variety of
situations during, before school, noon hour, playground and after
school.
- Attends staffings, meetings, trainings when requested.
- 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.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
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