• Maintains confidentiality in verbal, written, and electronic communication.
• Refers confidential information to the appropriate person.
• Follows safe practices and adheres to safety standards.
• Assists with classroom management and monitoring of student behavior;
• Prepares classroom materials, projects, demonstrations and visual displays;
• Assists with clerical duties, such as keeping attendance records.
• Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
• Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction.
• Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
• Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
• Assists students in the library or media center.
• Helps students with their clothing, wash-up, and toilet routines, as necessary.
• Assists with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines, as necessary.
• Adheres and follows work-related health, safety, and emergency procedures and practices.
• Provides instructional support by working individually or in small groups of students with learning, cognitive, emotional, or physical disabilities, to reinforce learning of materials or skills initially introduced and outlined by the Special Education Teacher.
• Provides behavioral support by assisting teachers in maintaining discipline and encouraging acceptable behavior of students.
• Transfers students in and out of holding and on/off buses, vans, etc.
• Facilitates student’s use of mobility equipment such as leg braces, walkers, mobile standers, and tricycles.
• Supports teachers on field trips by helping students with physical and behavioral needs, and reinforcing learning situations.
• Uses physical restraint or seclusion in compliance with state and federal law and District policies and procedures in instances where there is danger to the student or other students.
• Responds to the physical and behavioral needs of students in cooperation with the bus driver, during transportation to/from school.
• Administers first aid and provide basic nursing care as directed or authorized by a school nurse.
