Para Educator; s), Special Education Self Contained-In District
Listed on 2026-05-31
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Education / Teaching
Special Needs / Learning Disabilities, Child Development/Support
Job Details
- Job : 5722555
- Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled
- Posted: May 18, 2026 7:00 AM (UTC)
- Starting Date: Aug 20, 2026
School Year
Must be 21 years of age or older.
Required:
Must upload a copy of High School diploma, High School transcript, or G.E.D.
POSITION TITLE: Para Educator(s), Special Education Self Contained - IN DISTRICT ONLY
LOCATION: Sierra Vista Middle School
DATE POSTED: 05/18/2026
JOB NUMBER: CL
HOURS/DAYS: 6.5/190
BENEFITS: PSE Para Educator Benefits
Job Description (Detailed)JOB TITLE:
Para Educator – Special Education LAC & Developmental Preschool
REPORTS TO:
Building Principal and Assigned Teacher
UNIT CLASSIFICATION: PSE Para Educators
PRIMARY
PURPOSE:
Employees in this job classification are directly involved in helping students achieve their maximum potential through the instructional program.
Responsibilities include:
1) One-to-one instruction of students
2) Small group instruction
3) In and out of classroom supervision of students
4) General assistance to the teacher.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Tutors students individually or in small groups in a variety of learning activities assigned by the teacher; promotes student understanding of materials presented. Adjusts tasks to suit needs of students if necessary.
- Incorporate IEP requirements within students’ daily lesson plan.
- Maintain records and charts indicating students’ progress.
- Provide students with practice on identified skill areas.
- Assist students in their understanding of instruction concepts.
- Guide independent work.
- Inform classroom teacher of students’ progress or concerns.
- Assist and carry out directions provided by other staff members (e.g. SLP, SLPA, OT, COTA, Behavior Specialist, Autism Specialist, Teacher of the Visually Impaired, etc)
- Regular sanitation of classroom manipulatives, tables, etc.
- Serve as the chief source of information and help to substitute teacher.
- Mainstream students in regular classroom settings as requested.
- Provide positive behavioral support.
- Assists teacher in monitoring student behavior and disciplines students as authorized.
- Restrain a student from harming self or others.
- May be required to provide detailed one-to-one assistance with changing, diapering, wiping and personal hygiene, etc.
- May be required to assist students with feeding and administer tube feeding.
- Attend meetings and trainings as required.
- Fulfill other related duties as assigned.
OTHER FUNCTIONS:
- Maintain high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality.
- Observe and utilize reasonable and professional medical/safety precautions to include positioning children in a safe and secure manner in adaptive equipment and transferring orthopedically disabled children to and from different equipment including toilets.
WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:
Communicates regularly and in a positive manner with students, parents/guardians, instructional and support staff. Required to deal with a wide range of student behaviors; required to deal with a wide range of physical and emotional disabilities; may occasionally deal with distraught or difficult students.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
The daily work is performed in a classroom setting. May be required to work outdoors in inclement weather. Potentially exposed to ordinary infectious diseases carried by students; exposed to student noise levels; required to lift, move and position students and equipment; playground supervision and bus loading requires working outdoors in inclement weather; required to attend to students’ personal hygiene; may be exposed to biting behavior;
may need to take precautions to avoid exposure to student bodily fluids and cleaning or disinfecting compounds; required to work in non-routine positions for extended periods.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education and Experience
Must provide proof of high school diploma or G.E.D.
Pass State Assessment for Para Educators or
AA Degree or
72-quarter college credits or 48-semester credits at the one hundred level or higher or
Completed an apprenticeship as a para educator, in a program
registered with the Washington State Apprenticeship and Training
Council.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Ability to identify and adjust to the individual student’s needs
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