Behavior Specialist
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Job Description
Job Title: Behavior Specialist Special Education
Reports to: Special Education Director
Primary Purpose:
Collaborate with staff to plan and provide behavior-related services for students with disabilities. Provide intervention to eliminate or reduce behavior problems resulting from impairments that interfere with students ability to derive benefit from the educational program.
Terms of Employment:
Salary: In accordance with the annual salary schedule approved by the Management Board of the Freestone-Navarro Bi-County Co-Op. 10 months / 187 days per year term or probationary contract as applicable.
Minimum Qualifications:
Education/Certification:
- Bachelors degree
- Valid Special Education Teaching Certificate or Behavior-related major
Special Knowledge/Skills:
- Knowledge of intervention strategies for students with behavioral/emotional disorders/oppositional defiant
- Ability to work positively with students and parents within the parameters of the educational setting
- Excellent organizational communication and interpersonal skills
Experience:
- Minimum of three years teaching in a classroom for students with behavioral/emotional disabilities or
- Minimum of three years working in a setting with students with behavioral/emotional disabilities
Major Responsibilities and Duties:
- Provide support interventions and strategies to classroom teachers.
- Assist with functional behavior assessments for designated students.
- Assist with BIP development and teacher implementation thereof for designated students.
- Assist parents and teachers to implement strategies both in the home and at school.
- Collaborate with diagnosticians to recommend appropriate placement and services for eligible students.
Consultation:
- Serve as a consultant to parents teachers administrators school counselors and transportation concerning students emotional/behavioral issues.
- Serve as a member of the ARD committee as needed.
Program Management:
- Provide Crisis Prevention and Intervention Boys Town T.B.S.I. Applied Behavior Analysis or other behavior management training.
- Provide intervention program for designated students as appropriate.
- Assist with social skills training to designated students.
- Provide parent training to parents of students with emotional/behavioral difficulties.
- Practice punctuality and work within required timelines.
- Make appropriate use of available technology.
- Demonstrate knowledge and skills essential to effective job performance.
- Participate in appropriate continuing education for professional growth.
- Maintain confidentiality of student information in accordance with state federal and local guidelines.
- Perform other tasks and assume other responsibilities as may be assigned by the Director of Special Education or other Co-Op administrators.
Communication:
- Form good interpersonal and working relationships with district personnel.
- Demonstrate sensitivity to individual and cultural differences.
- Demonstrate positive interaction and rapport with students and their families.
Other:
- Perform any and all duties as assigned.
- Successfully advances Co-Op initiatives.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
None
Equipment Used:
None
Working Conditions:
Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors:
Maintain emotional control under stress. Regular Co-Op wide travel to multiple work locations as assigned; moderate lifting and carrying.
The foregoing statements describe the general purpose and responsibilities assigned to this job and are not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties that may be assigned or skills that may be required.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
