Communication Skills, Data Collection, Organizational Development/Management, Physical Demands, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Special Education, Staff Training, Team Player
id='p4049_'>Education Assistant - Special Education JobID: 4049
Position Type:
Support Staff/Education Assistant
Date Posted:
7/9/2026
Location:
Harbor Lights Middle School
Date Available:
08/24/2026
Closing Date:
Until filled
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Notice of Support Staff Posting
Position: Education Assistant -Special Education Posting # 4049
- Harbor Lights Middle School (6-8)
Posting Dates: July 9, 2026 Until Filled
Reports To: Principal
Beginning: August 24, 2026
Hours: 29.5 hours per week
Monday Friday
School-Year/Part-Time
Training/Experience/Endorsements required:
- Assist students with academic tasks in individual, small-group, and classroom settings.
- Reinforce lessons and instructional strategies developed by the special education teacher.
- Provide accommodations and modifications outlined in students' IEPs.
- Support students in developing organizational, study, and self-advocacy skills.
- Assist with classroom assessments and collect student performance data.
Qualifications:
- Knowledge of positive interventions, support and good-problem solving skills
- Good collaboration/communication skills
- Experience in working with disabilities preferred
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
- Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
- Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken work; those activities where detailed or import spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
- Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
- The worker is subject to environmental conditions.
- The worker should provide consistent and reliable in person attendance.