<p>Position Type:</p> <p>Support Staff/Special Education Assistant</p> <p>Date Posted:</p> <p>5/30/2025</p> <p>Location:</p> <p>High School South Building</p> <p>Date Available:</p> <p>August 2025</p> <p>Closing Date:</p> <p>Open until filled</p> <p>&nbsp&nbspAdditional Information: Show/Hide</p> <p>Notice of Support Staff Posting</p> <p>Position: Special Education Assistant - IRR Posting # 3747</p> <ul> <li>West Ottawa High School </li></ul> <p>Posting Dates: May 30, 2025 - Until Filled</p> <p>Reports To: Principal</p> <p>Beginning: August 2025</p> <p>Hours: 40 hours per week</p> <p>7:35 a.m. to 2:53 p.m.</p> <p>Full Time / School Year</p> <p>Job Responsibilities:</p> <ul> <li>Assistance with students with various disabilities in categorical classrooms </li><li>Knowledge of behavioral strategies </li><li>Work closely with teachers to collaborate on accommodations and IEP requirements </li><li>Assist classroom teachers with individual's instruction in core subjects </li><li>Successfully work in a team environment </li><li>Other duties as assigned </li></ul> <p>Other Information:</p> <ul> <li>CPI trained or willing to be trained in CPI </li><li>Good communications/collaboration skills with staff and students </li></ul> <p>Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:</p> <ul> <li>Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction. </li><li>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. </li><li>Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm. </li><li>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. </li><li>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. </li><li>Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers. </li><li>The worker is subject to environmental conditions. </li><li>The worker should provide consistent and reliable attendance. </li></ul>