What are the responsibilities and job description for the Special Education Paraprofessional position at Searcy High School?
POSITION TITLE: Special Education Paraprofessional
High School
QUALIFICATIONS:
- High School diploma and required special training.
- Prior job experience.
Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.
REPORTS TO: Teacher or Designated Supervisor
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
- 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 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.
- Helps students with their clothing.
- Assists with lunch, snack and cleanup routines.
- Assists with wash-up and toilet routines.
- Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
- Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
- Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
- Participates in inservice training programs, as assigned.
- Performs specialized services to students as required by specific responsibilities.
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