Special Education Paraprofessional

Position Information

Job Title:

SpEd Paraprofessional

Reports to:

Designated Principal

Location:

Ridgeview Elementary
Date of Availability:
August 2026

A paraprofessional-Teaching Assistant will assist the classroom teacher in helping students learn and/or stay safe.

Salary: $17.68 - $27.40 per hour, dependent upon experience.

Data collection skills, ability to follow direction, flexible, positive, works well with kids and a team, professional.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Assists in teaching students how to become independent and responsible at school
• Assists with specialized needs that may include behavior, learning, self-help skills and/or communication.
• Assures that students learn at their own level and have their specialized needs met
• Collect or gather data
• Run small learning groups
• Prepare or set up activities and materials for the next rotation, period or day, help students with self-care tasks
• Monitor students during class, transitions, lunch or breaks
• Providing instructional support individually or in small groups
• Providing one-on-one instruction
• Meet with teachers
• Provide accommodations for students to have access to classroom instruction
• Other duties as assigned

Student or Students as assigned and needed by teacher.

PERA retirement, paid time off, short and long term disability, other optional benefit elections. Employees who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the district's health insurance.

Salary/pay rate is determined based on position classification and employee's qualifications and experience relevant to the job description requirements. Full pay range may be found on the appropriate salary schedule.

Ability to read, write and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in a one‑on‑one and small groups situation to students, staff, parents and administrators.

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, peers, parents and community; ability to speak clear and concisely in written or oral communication.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to run; stoop and kneel. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50lbs. The employee must occasionally push items of 75lbs. or more, such as pushing children on a bike or moving/rearranging furniture. Specific vision abilities required by this include close vision, distance vision, and depth perception.

The work environment characteristics described below are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. These employees spend most of their coaching time inside. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud and is a standard acceptable level for this environment.

In compliance with Title VI & VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972;
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Americans with…