SPED ARI Job Brandon area,Mississippi USA,Education / Teaching

Position Type:
Assistant Teacher/ARI Para Professional Special Services

Date Posted:
1/13/2026

Location:
Northshore Elementary School

Date Available:
01/20/2026

Job title:

ARI Paraprofessional Special Services

Reports to:

Supervising Teacher, Principal, Assistant Principal, Director

Receives guidance from:

Director, District Administration and Support Staff, Assistant Superintendent

Overtime status:

Compliant with position, salary and FLSA regulations

Job purpose:

In keeping a tradition of excellence, the purpose of the ARI Paraprofessional Special Services is to assist the teacher in maintaining appropriate classroom activities and environment so that students may learn effectively. 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.

Duties and responsibilities:

Participates in daily and long-range lesson and classroom activity planning
Conducts learning exercises with small groups of children
Guides children in working and playing harmoniously with other children
Alters the teacher to special needs of individual children
Provides escort and assistance to children as necessary
Helps maintain individuals records for each child
Fosters good eating habits and table manners in children
Assists teacher in maintaining neat work and study areas
Assists with the supervision of children during regular play periods
Collects and displays suitable material for educational displays
Participates in staff development to be equipped to assist teachers in carrying out district initiatives
Assist students with personal needs due to accidents
Clean before and after the students enter the room
Accompany students to regular education classes and assist them with assignments
Maintain health status on all children
Take all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment, materials, and facilities
Lead and attend staff meetings/trainings as applicable; serve on staff committees
Maintain and accept responsibility for any district owned fixed asset item assigned to employee and ensure appropriate use by following district policies for acceptable use
Undergo periodic evaluations according to state and board policy procedures
Maintain confidentiality
Regular, dependable, in person, and punctual attendance is an essential function of this position
Perform such other and not specifically enumerated duties as may be requested by the Board of Education, superintendent, administrator, director or established by district policy
Read, understand, and abide by Employee Conduct Policy, GAB, all other District, State and Federal policies, and procedures and protocols as established by RCSD and the Mississippi Educator Code of Conduct

Qualifications:

Education Level: Early Childhood Associate's degree OR
Associate's Degree or 60 College Credit Hours AND 12 early childhood college credit hours or completion of an early childhood training program OR
HIgh School Diploma/GED AND Verification of Work Keys Test AND 12 early childhood college credit hours OR completion of an early childhood training program
Certification:
Other Requirements: CDL, any additional qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands for fine manipulation, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms using equipment such as a keyboard and video display terminal.

The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, reach, crouch or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and move up to 35 pounds and occasionally up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by…


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