Education Assistant Ii

2 months ago

Stony Plain, Canada Parkland School Division Full time

Are you interested in working with our dynamic and progressive school division to pursue excellence in education for students, professional learning opportunities, a flexible health benefits package, and a workplace that embraces diversity? Then we are the place for you
Who we are and what we value:
Parkland School Division (PSD) is a large progressive school jurisdiction serving Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, Fort Chipewyan and Parkland County. PSD meets the diverse educational needs of over 12,000 rural and urban students among 23 sites, including outreach schools and alternative education programs.

Our values are what guide us. 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 for both staff and students.

The Parkland School Division has a Permanent Full-Time (1.0 FTE) Education Assistant II position available at Memorial Composite High School, in Stony Plain, Alberta.

Function and Purpose of Position

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 work as members of the school and as members of a student support team. EA II’s have met PSD’s mandatory educational requirements. The minimum mandatory educational requirement is an Educational Assistant Certificate or comparable education.

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

The EA II provides routine and repetitive instructional support. 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).

Behaviour
- Under direction of the teacher, observe, chart and monitor individual student progress and behavior.
- violent physical intervention techniques.
- Provide behavioural management assistance for students with behavioural disorders (implementing predetermined non-aversive disciplinary methods and nonviolent crisis intervention techniques to diffuse escalating negative behaviour patterns).
- Deal with student behaviour and assists with classroom discipline.

Student Assistance and Personal Care
- 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

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