Paraeducator - Early Childhood Program

Description

POSITION TITLE:
Para educator - Early Learning

SUMMARY: With supervision, coordinates educational programs for a designated group of academic students with multiple disabilities aged 3-5 years.

Essential Functions:

• 1. Teaches young children with typical development and those with disabilities, including blindness and multiple disabilities, on an individual and group basis.
• 2. Provides direct care to assigned students which may require the ability to stand and walk frequently with little opportunity to sit during the course of a standard work day.
• 3. Implements established daily student schedules, as assigned under the directive of lead teacher which may require the ability to physically handle and assist other persons in the performance of daily activities and an involve bending, stooping, kneeling, crawling, etc.
• 4. Coordinating service:
  • Manages classroom resources.
  • Coordinates data collection and recording.

Marginal Functions:

• 1. Performs additional duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: 38.5 or 40 daytime hours, Monday through Friday with a 1/2 hour unpaid lunch break scheduled each day; flextime within the workweek is occasionally required, and additional work hours are infrequently assigned. This position follows an 11 month school schedule.

Qualifications:

Other applicable trainings/certifications that may be required include, but are not limited to:

• Gastrostomy tube (G-tube)/Medication Management Certification
• Braille
• Sign Language
• Lifting, Transfers & Positioning/Mechanical Lift
• Computer Skills
• Driving Certification to transport students
• First Aid/CPR Certification
• Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) Training