Job Summary

Mountain Brook Schools

Job Description

Title: Special Education Instructional Aide

Reports To: Principal and Assigned Teacher(s)

Job Qualifications: 2 years of college or college diploma. General concepts of child growth, development and child behavior characteristics. Techniques used in controlling and motivating students. English usage, punctuation, spelling & grammar. Routine record keeping. General purposes & goals of public education. Specific subject area content as required in job assignment.

Job Goal: To increase the effectiveness of the teacher and assist with individual students or small groups to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Assists instructional personnel with the development and presentation of learning materials and instructional exercises.
• Tutors students individually or in small groups to reinforce and follow-up learning activity as directed.
• Oversees and supervises students during classroom activities, in the library, bathroom, PE, lunch and on field trips. Assists teacher with emergency drills.
• Assists in the development of a variety of instructional materials.
• Operates and cares for equipment used in classroom instruction and informs teacher if equipment is not working properly.
• Assists teacher in collecting & distributing books and materials for the classroom. Works with bulletin boards and other classroom displays.
• Performs a variety of regular clerical duties, such as filing, typing or duplicating materials.
• Manages classroom behavior in the absence of the teacher. Assists any substitute teacher in the absence of the regular teacher.
• Alerts the teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior & confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
• Follows a daily schedule as assigned by the teacher(s) and approved by the principal.
• Performs other related tasks as needed.
• Must be able to lift 50 pounds.

Terms of Employment: Nine months per school year, 184 days.