Bilingual Paraprofessional

Dual Language/Bilingual Classroom Paraprofessional

School District 170 Chicago Heights, Illinois

Job Summary:

To assist the teacher achieve teaching objectives by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve the objectives of the instructional program.

Reports to:

Classroom Teacher, Principal, and other administrators.

Terms of Employment:
Salary, benefits, and work year as established in the Support Staff Contract. Pension System: IMRF

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, interest, 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, assembly, play periods, and field trips.
• Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up to date.
• Assists with such large groups activities as drill work, reading aloud, and storytelling.
• 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.
• Collects and records collection of money.
• Helps students with their clothing.
• Helps with lunch, snack and cleanup routines.
• Assists with wash-up and toilet routines.
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problems 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 in-service training programs as assigned.
• Carries out other appropriate activities as assigned by the teacher and/or administrator.