Teacher Aide, Personal (3 Vacancies) 0922-0008

Location: Erie 1 BOCES Special Education Northtowns Academy Tonawanda, NY
Hourly Salary: $14.50/hour plus comphrensive benefits package Employment - Erie 1 BOCES (https://www.e1b.org/en/about-us/employment.aspx#Great-Benefits) Hours: 7:30 AM – 2:45 PM
This position involves working with a student with disabilities. Personal Aides are assigned to individual students and assist them under the direction of the classroom teacher. Teacher Aides are paired with a teacher and classroom. Applicants should have a positive outlook, strong work ethic and be compassionate. Kind and caring individuals are encouraged to apply.
General Duties: 1. Assists with classroom activities as directed by teacher.
ALC AIDE ONLY- The following description applies to those aides who work in the Alternative Learning Center (ALC):

• Helps keep supplies and materials in order.
• Cleans up and puts away materials after use.
• Works with individual children as directed by teacher.
• Assists and supervises games and free play, both indoors and outdoors.
• Assists teacher in implementing the classroom and/or individual student'sbehavior management program.
• SPECIAL NOTE: Ability to lift/move students either independently orwith assistance is a condition of employment for teacher aides whowork with non-ambulatory students. Initial and periodic physicalexaminations will test this ability. Teacher aides should not attempt to liftmore than one-third of their body weight without assistance fromanother adult or appropriate lifting devices.
• Students are placed in the ALC room in one of two ways. The first way is teacher directed wherein the teacher initiates the student's removal from the classroom. The ALC aide assists the teacher in escorting a student from the classroom to the ALC room. It is also assumed that the classroom aide will assist in transporting a student to the ALC room, if necessary.? NOTE: In a crisis situation, the ALC aide and the classroom aide receive directions from the classroom teacher. The second method of placement is student directed, wherein a student requests to leave the classroom (for a calming down period).
• Maintains confidentiality of student information.
• Helps prepare materials for their use.
• Be an active part of the classroom education team as demonstrated by following teacher directions, being cooperative, showing support for other team members and focusing on student needs and outcomes.
• Assists in restraining students who may exhibit behaviors that are injurious toself or others.
• The ALC Aide is an important member of the educational team in the academic strand program. Typically, the ALC aide is found in buildings that have a cluster of two or three 6:1+A or 8:1+A academic classrooms. The primary responsibility of the ALC Aide is to monitor students in the ALC room. This involves remaining with the student at ALL times, maintaining a log/anecdotal record of student behavior, and utilizing a checklist of prescribed steps that a student must follow to terminate their time in the ALC room.
• Assists children with arrival and departure involving coats, boots, and lunches.
• Teacher Aides working with non-ambulatory students are expected tolift 40- pound loads independently and may be required to lift/movestudents weighing more than 40 pounds with assistance fromanother adult and/or with the use of appropriate lifting devices.
• Assists teacher in the implementation of activities that include but are notlimited to: feeding, toileting, and other activities of daily living(e.g. grooming,hygiene, leisure/recreation, etc.).
• Changes children's clothing and cleanses children, if necessary.
• Accompanies a child when removal from a classroom is necessary orwhen the child must go to another part of the building.
• When there are no students in the ALC room, the ALC aide spends quality time with the students within the classroom environment and should perform other general classroom aide duties. This time is very positive and may consist of private time with the students such as remediation and tutoring.
• Discuss parental requests for information with the teacher before responding.
• Lifts and transports students in conjunction with daily living activities.

Job Qualifications
Minimun Qualifications:

• Graduation from high school or possession of a high school equivalency diploma;

OR

• Four (4) years of experience and knowledge in a particular field where specialized duties are involved;

OR

• An equivalent combination of training and experience as defined by the limits of (A) and (B).

Civil Service Title: Teacher Aide
Job Number: 0922-0008