Essential Job Functions (duties listed are typical but not exclusive):

 Assists teachers and staff by modeling instructional practices and behavior management strategies based on the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis and interventions based on a functional analysis of behavior

Facilitate team meetings that: design Behavior interventions Plans; effective instruction, social skills instruction, and ethical issues; School-wide Positive Behavioral Support

Work with individual teachers, groups of teachers and/or the entire staff on issues such as: PBIS, Restorative Practices learning and collaboration issues, and factors that can affect development and implementation of interventions.

Promote highly specialized positive behavior interventions in which “at risk” students thrive: behavior instruction that is explicit, intensive, accelerated and provides ample practice.

Use ongoing assessments to maintain a record of student progress.

Model good assessment processes that assist students in assessing their own work and behavior.  Provide recognition of a variety of student accomplishments and positive behaviors.

Work cooperatively with administrators to promote positive student behavior by providing professional development that targets research, strategies and modeling of instructional practices to support teachers in their implementation of positive behavior support in their classrooms.

Continually supervise students to ensure a safe, non-threatening, nurturing environment where students can thrive.

Engage in on-going professional development to increase knowledge and skills of positive student behavior support for all students, targeted students and students who represent sub-group populations.

Engage parents in the “student behavior intervention plan” process and empower parents by providing them with skills and techniques to support the positive behavior development of their child.

Conduct conflict resolution and peer mediation circles