Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a temporary Educational Assistant in various schools.
Qualifications:
· Educational Assistant Certificate or Diploma
Requirements:
· Support students’ growth in the areas of cognition, communication, physical and social development
· Support and/or implement teacher directed programming
· Work collaborative under guidance of teacher, CST and members of a multi-disciplinary team
· Implement specialist (OT, PT, SLP, etc) strategies to achieve required goals
· Implement behaviour management and educational strategies that facilitate student learning
· Communicate effectively with students using age appropriate positive reinforcements and/or school specific behaviour strategies
· Observe student behaviour with focus on achieving positive behavioural/educational outcomes and mitigate/prevent negative ones
· Provide high level of structure to facilitate completion of required learning outcomes
· Work and play at student’s physical level of their activities
· Provide support in use of adaptive and learning technologies using a variety of devices and associated programs
· Successfully implement the Positive Behaviour Plan(PBP), if required
· Able to understand, implement and support modified curriculum
· Able to work with and support students with Autism or complex medical needs
· Physically handle and transfer students when unsafe
· Physical ability to lift and move students
· Provide school directed indoor and outdoor student supervision
Employee is expected to work with behaviours related/associated with conduct, obsessive/compulsive, trauma and stress related, severe chronic depressive, feeding and/or eating disorders etc. Other behaviours related to ADHD, emotional/behavioural, learning and speech & language-related disabilities, etc may be encountered.
The successful candidate will be required to provide a Criminal Reference Check and a Vulnerable Sector Check. FMCSD will contact past and present employers for references. All FMCSD employees are expected to be computer literate; this includes fluency with e-mail, Internet and MS Office.
Only those applications submitted and received by 4:00pm on the closing date will be considered for this position. We thank all applicants for their interest.