What are the responsibilities and job description for the Paraprofessional position at Gardner Elementary School?
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Previous experience working in an educational setting.
- Must be highly qualified with a minimum of 2 years of college or have passed the Para Pro Test.
REPORTS TO: Building Principal
JOB GOAL: To assist the teacher achieve teaching objectives by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole.
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
- Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests and abilities.
- Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
- Helps students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher.
- Distributes and collects workbooks, papers and other materials for instruction.
- Guides independent study, enrichment work and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
- Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods and field trips.
- Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up-to-date.
- Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud and story-telling.
- Reads to students, listens to students read and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
- Assists students in the library or media center.
- Checks notebooks, corrects papers and supervises testing and make-up work, as assigned by the teacher.
- Checks and records student attendance.
- Collects and records collection of money.
- Helps students with their clothing.
- Performs all other duties and responsibilities as assigned by teachers and/or the building principal.
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: Per Contract.
SALARY AND BENEFITS: Per Contract.
EVALUATION: Building Principal and Director of Pupil Personnel
Salary : $19 - $26