Paraprofessional

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