Education Assistant Ii - Spruce Grove, Canada - Parkland School Division No. 70
Description
As an Education Assistant II in The Parkland School Division, you will be part of enacting our vision, mission and foundational statements.
VisionOur students possess the confidence, resilience, insight and skills required to thrive in and positively impact the world.
Mission
We assure supportive learning environments, meaningful experiences and healthy relationships that create opportunities to develop resilience, to gain diversity in perspectives and to achieve enduring success.
The Parkland School Division has a TEMPORARY Full-time (1.0 FTE) Education Assistant II position available at Woodhaven School in Spruce Grove, Alberta.
In the STEPS program, you will support student social/emotional and academic needs, support IEP goals and strategies, maintain student regulation, and work closely with classroom Teacher.
Educational Assistants II (EA II) assist teachers with many instructional and non-instructional tasks in the classroom and with other school activities.
EA II's may:
- Work under the supervision of one teacher or several different teachers
- Work independently with students or in the classroom with the teacher
- Work with a particular special needs student or a group of students within a class or in a special program
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Perform clerical tasks in the classroom or school
Under the direction of the teacher, the EA assists the student in acquiring the education and skills necessary for advancement in the educational setting.
To reach this objective, the EA II follows an individually prescribed learning program, through team planning and working one-on-one with the student(s).
This involves routine recording, basic charting and logging of observations on anecdotal record sheets or data sheets. EA II does provide personal care to students.Instructional Support
- Provide assistance in all curriculum areas/one on one or in small groups as directed by teacher.
- Help with organizing notebooks, timetables, agendas, and lockers.
- Scribe notes from board, scribe and read exams for students as required.
- Modify and adapt the program for individual students as directed by the classroom teacher.
- Assist in the implementation of Individual Program Plan (IPP) goals and adaptive devices.
- Assist students with computer access.
- Provide support to students utilizing various educational software packages.
- Providing assistance to communicate with peers and adults in the school (e.g. American Sign Language, assistive tech. devices).
- Under direction of the teacher, observe, chart and monitor individual student progress and behavior.
- Provide behavioural management assistance for students with behavioural disorders (implementing predetermined nonaversive disciplinary methods and nonviolent crisis intervention techniques to diffuse escalating negative behaviour patterns).
- Deal with student behaviour and assists with classroom discipline.
- Assist student with walking (e.g. holding their hand, stabilizing them, guiding on stairs).
- Assist student with personal care and hygiene, which may include food preparation, dressing, grooming, and toileting.
- Feeding assistance (can include spoon or tube feeding), lifting and handling of medically fragile students.
- Ability to manipulate assistive devices (e.g. insulin pumps, braces, dressing fasteners, fasten seat belts, etc.).
- Catheterization.
- Respiratory therapy interventions, physiotherapy interventions and other medically related tasks.
- Administer medication as required.
- Toileting and diapering for students who are physically dependent.
- Assist and or participate in exercising, implementing adaptive physical education, range of motion programs, fine and gross motor skills development, individualized or group communication techniques and life skills management.
- Monitor feeding, tube feeding and breathing apparatuses, seizure management (e.g. monitor and assess severity of seizure through the use of medical equipment and administer oxygen if required), and catheterization.
- Operate specialized equipment to support instruction for students with physical care needs (e.g. wheelchairs, mechanical lifts, walkers, transfer belt, FM and/or communications systems and hearing aid equipment).
- Lifting and carrying students into and out of specialized equipment (i.e., gym equipment, sensory equipment, walkers, wheelchairs, toilets, commodes) to carry out program requirements as well as personal hygiene care.
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