Primary Purpose:
Provide academic and behavior support to students participating in the behavior intervention classroom (BIC). Create and maintain a structured, individualized program with an emphasis on instruction, for students with mild to moderate behaviors, potentially related to Autism, Emotional Disability, Other Health Impairments, and/or mild intellectual disabilities. Provide opportunities for reintegration in the general education and/or resource classroom settings to provide maximum learning in the least restrictive environment, based on the individual needs of the student.
Qualifications:
Education/Certification:
- Bachelor's Degree
- EC-6 / EC-4 Generalist Certification (Preferred)
- EC-12 Special Education Certification
Special Knowledge/Skills:
- Ability to work effectively with administrators, peers, students, parents, and others
- Strong organizational, communication, interpersonal skills
- Strong understanding of Least Restrictive Environment and Continuum of special education services and supports
Experience:
- Experience working with students with disabilities and behavior challenges in a structured setting.
Major Responsibilities and Duties:
- Implement instructional activities and behavioral techniques, including accommodations and/or modifications designed in the student's Individualized Education Plan (IEP) and Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP).
- Implement curriculum at the appropriate grade level, based on student needs, as designated in the IEP.
- Provide clear, structured, and engaging instruction to students.
- Develop a daily schedule for all students to ensure appropriate academic and behavioral needs are met for each student on an individualized basis.
- Use appropriate technology and curriculum in the delivery of instruction.
- Use appropriate special education technology to input data for progress reporting on goals, present levels, and recommendations for services within the special education continuum.
- Ensure fidelity of data collection related to academic and behavioral needs.
- Provide support and training to campus teachers/personnel interacting/working with the student.
- Provide case management to students in the Behavioral Intervention Classroom, and students who are re-integrating to other settings based on the continuum of services.
- Provide any necessary behavior training on techniques that are beneficial for the student, based on research-based practices.
- Maintain accurate, complete, and up-to-date records as required by law, district policy, and administrative regulation, which includes, but is not limited to, data collection, support services logs, documentation of accommodations, etc.
- Provide social skills training to students with an emphasis on social communication, as well as positive replacement behaviors.
- Provide plans for re-integration to the least restrictive environment based on the student''s individualized level of need.
- Provide a system of positive reinforcement (i.e. token economy, point systems, rewards) that are conducive to the improvement of student behavior, and based on research based practices.
- Provide inclusion and transition support to students participating in the Behavior Intervention Classroom.
- Create and manage a schedule for paraprofessionals (including inclusion and transition support) to ensure they provide necessary support to students, as provided in the IEP.
- Maintain and update Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) annually.