Teacher Assistant for Students with Severe Disabilities Arlington High School
Teacher Assistant for Students with Severe Disabilities Arlington High School
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$ 43475 - 59892
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About UsLABBB Collaborative provides educational programming and support services for over 300 special needs students from over 65 districts. LABBB serves students ages 3 to 22 years old with a variety of special needs including students on the autism spectrum students with multihandicaps pervasive development disorders developmental delays language deficits and social/emotional challenges. The LABBB community has a vision of skillbased instruction that considers the whole student from early childhood to adult living. Our staff is committed to creating a professional working environment through teamwork communication and respect. We are very excited for you to join us!
About the role:LABBB is hiring a High School Special Education Teacher Assistant to educate students with significant disabilities including intellectual communication and behavior challenges. The classroom is a multigrade substantially separate classroom located at Arlington High School in Arlington. Teacher Assistants support the implementation of lessons and activities to further students skill development associated with educational functional and therapeutic needs; provide individual and small group instruction under the supervision of the teacher; utilize and maintain a wide variety of technology and assistive communication devices for students; implement sensory mobility behavior equipment and selfcare plans (including toileting feeding etc. and facilitate interactions among students that provide opportunities for emotional social and cognitive growth. The person in this role is responsible for providing specialized support to help students engage in learning activities in a substantially separate classroom setting general education inclusion settings and within the community as well as assisting special education teachers and specialists throughout each school day.
Job Requirements:
- High School Diploma or GED required; Associate or Bachelors Degree Preferred
- Experience working with children young adults or in human services related field special education experience highly desirable.
- Ability to work with students with a variety of disabilities including but not limited to social emotional behavioral nonverbal nonambulatory etc.
- Valid drivers license and ability to commute between buildings/programs during the day.
- Ability and willingness to drive LABBB van (as required by program)
- Working full time 35 hours per week) 11 months (school calendar) plus required 4 weeks in summer.
Responsibilities:Assist with arrival and departure of the supervision of licensed staff assist in the implementation of appropriate data driven culturally responsive instruction and implementation of individual education plans and behavior intervention schedule as assigned including reassignments to different program locations as instructional materials as requested/directed by the students development of independence social awareness language academic skills and appropriate student data and provides it to members of the students team (teacher transition counselor related service provider)Effectively utilize any recommended adaptive equipment for individual all significant occurrences to the appropriate supervisor in a respectful and timely LABBBs mission and core values as well as adhere to laws policies procedures and ethical standards of the field and contribute to a positive and safe school students personal care needs which may include activities of daily living (ADLs) such as communication toileting feeding transferring selfcare and assistance with mobility including lifting Supervise students across educational settings including at lunch and in the community.
Salary Range: $43475 to $59892 commensurate with experience and education. *Salary range is for school year and includes compensation for required 4week summer program
Benefits:Fulltime employees at LABBB Collaborative enjoy lowcost benefit offerings that includes medical dental & vision insurance plans partial employerpaid basic life insurance optional employee and dependent life insurance voluntary medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts 403(b) retirement plan and Massachusetts state employees pension plan paid timeoff tuition reimbursement employee assistance program and much more!
Employment Type
Full-Time
