Soaring Eagle Academy Hiring for Special Education Teacher Assistant-AUTISM 3-21 Therapeutic Day School Job at Lombard, IL Full Time

Full Time TEACHER ASSISTANT-Paraprofessional/Substitute Teacher -Autism Day School

• Fantastic hours 8:30-3:00 (32.5 hours/week) full time.
• $500 Sign on BONUS through October 2022 for full time hires.
• Great hourly rate $18.00 per hour.
• Qualify with a High School diploma or greater.
• Opportunity to grow, gain knowledge in our teaching model and be considered for higher positions within our school.
• Amazing benefits.
• Great team collaboration with colleagues passionate about supporting students and each other!
• Act as a student’s one on one player in a variety of settings, (including interaction on the floor, at student’s work station, during academics, while walking/running in hallways, outside or at community outings) facilitating and supporting capacities for shared attention, regulation, engagement, forming ideas, problem-solving and thinking during one to one and small group teaching, within a hands-off/ non-physical restraint trauma informed child-centered collaborative environment.
• Upon hire, requires a Paraprofessional license( Short Term or Permanent ELS Para) or a valid teacher/substitute teacher license. Easy to acquire with a High School diploma OR 60 or more college credit hours.

Make a difference in the life of a child with Autism! $500 Sign on BONUS through October 2022 for full time hires!!

Patience and compassion for individual differences of students with special needs in a one-of-a-kind therapeutic day school in Lombard, IL serving students with Autism, ages 3 to 21 years old.

Join a comprehensive team of dedicated, child-centered professionals supporting our students and their families, in a calm/nurturing but fast paced and dynamic environment, working together to harness each student’s joy for interaction, play, communication and learning. We believe that the “behaviors” others see as impacting education for these students are a result of their lack of comprehension and challenges to process sensory and social/emotional information from their environment and communication partners. With our appropriate interpretation of their intentions, our hands-off/ non-physical restraint, language-based strategies and emotional and sensory supports- our students are soaring!

Our Teacher Assistants have a central role, the heart of our model, in the support of our students. Requires a Paraprofessional license( Short Term or Permanent ELS Para) or a valid teacher/substitute teacher license. Easy to acquire with a High School diploma OR 60 or more college credit hours.

Work 44.4 weeks of the year, 222 days. 6 weeks of student non-attendance and holidays.

Benefits Include for Full Time:

• BCBS medical, dental and vision.
• Short-term/long-term disability and a life insurance at no cost to employee.
• 7 PTO days per school year.
• 2 paid holidays of Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• 403B retirement plan.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Reflective processing to support you in your work serving our student population.

Compensation: Hourly rate $18.00. $500 Sign on BONUS (details provided upon full time offer of employment).

SEA is the only school in the world to utilize a developmental language approach and developmental thinking, implementing DIR® Floortime principles, to understand and support students’ social and academic development. Join our team with all staff working in our school building 5 full days per week providing in person teaching, following strict IDPH, CDC, ISBE and local public health department COVID-19 guidelines including handwashing/cleaning and sanitizing measures to the best of our ability within a mask optional environment.

For more information, please visit our website at www.soaringeagleacademy.org

Essential Functions:

• Act as the student’s one on one player in a variety of settings, (including interaction on the floor or at student’s work station, during academics, while walking/running in hallways, outside or at community outings) facilitating and supporting capacities for shared attention, regulation, engagement, forming ideas, problem-solving and thinking.
• Attune and respond to the student’s intentions providing meaning to their actions.
• Be the student’s voice, verbally acknowledging their actions/intentions to them and others.
• Support the student’s comprehension by interpreting verbalizations and actions of others and stimuli within the environment.
• Build a relationship with the student, always working to expand the relationship, critical for supporting the student’s ability to be engaged and available for learning throughout the day.
• Support and facilitate student capacities for language development, comprehension and communication, including using appropriate language levels according to your student’s profile.
• Read, prepare and follow a complex daily/weekly lesson developed by your Classroom Teacher.
• Recognize student’s interests and follow the student’s lead to engage in interactions allowing for elaboration and challenge of the student’s capacities.
• Support and lead individual and small group social and educational activities under direction of the classroom teacher.
• Assist a student with their physical needs (including self-help, feeding, hygeine, toileting) when needed in accordance with Privacy and Dignity Policy.
• If assigned to the Transition 18-21 year old classroom, will work in the community supporting students during recreational activities and serving as a job coach during vocational experiences.
• Ability to wear a face mask at all times in the school building as needed, even when social distance is maintained, except while drinking or eating.
• Ability to kneel, sit (on a chair or the floor) and stand moving easily and quickly from kneel to stand, sit to stand and stand to walk positions.
• Ability to walk up to a mile in distance.
• Ability to lift up to 50 pounds easily.
• Ability to engage in and support physical activities initiated by your assigned student including but not limited to, jumping, running, climbing, rolling, sitting/lying on the floor, swinging.
• Ability to act and respond to a student’s (yours and others’) dysregulation/behavior/combative and aggressive actions (which may include unpredictable physical conduct by the student against you) according to the strategies developed in the student’s Individualized Regulatory Support Plan and Safety Plan.
• Ability to quickly move away from and avoid combative/aggressive actions or behaviors of students.
• Ability to physically follow in close proximity and support your assigned student when he/she flees (runs) from an activity, an interaction or the learning environment.
• Ability to physically support students on indoor/outdoor therapeutic equipment.’

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $18.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• No nights
• No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

• Signing bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Lombard, IL 60148: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

• Are you currently employed?

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Required)

Work Location: One location