Paraeducator Moderate Severe

Para educator – Moderate/Severe Job Description

Under the supervision of an administrator and general direction of a classroom teacher, the Para educator assists students with severe disabilities to meet their physical and emotional requirements throughout the instructional day; assists the teacher with record keeping and performs a variety of instructional support duties in developing life skills and/or physical care activities. The work need not be performed in the presence of the teacher, but the teacher retains responsibility for instruction and supervision.

Paraeducators work in special education settings where students have behavior, emotional, physical, language/communication, or learning disabilities. They may spend a substantial portion of their time providing intervention to students who exhibit disruptive, aggressive, depressive, and/or self-injurious behaviors.

Education: High School Diploma or equivalent; courses and/or in-service training in psychology, behavior modification, and other related fields desirable but not required. Willingness to complete such training courses, in-service, or otherwise, as may be required upon employment.

A.A. degree, 48 units beyond the high school diploma, or successful completion of the District Instructional Assistant Proficiency Test in reading, math, and per the Federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Experience: Prefer experience in the care of children with learning disabilities and/or emotional disturbances. Training in crisis intervention is highly desirable.

• DOJ and FBI Criminal Background Check
• TB Test within the last 60 days (Education Code 49406, Assembly Bill 1667)
• Must obtain and maintain a First Aid/CPR Certificate (In-Person Training ONLY)
• Pre-Employment Physical Evaluation conducted through the District (Minimum 50 pounds)

• Develop and maintain effective communication with students, teachers, school staff, and parents.
• Implement lessons initiated by the teacher.
• Under teacher direction, assess student needs and progress.
• Implement instructional strategies which have been developed by the teacher.
• Assist the teacher with accommodating and modifying methods for students with special needs.
• Implement student behavioral policies as directed by certificated staff.
• Implement effective methods to deal with verbal outbursts and other forms of resisting authority.
• Correct student behavior as instructed by certificated and licensed staff.
• Enforce school and class rules.
• Share relevant information about students with teachers to facilitate problem solving and to improve student academic progress.
• Review and reinforce learning activities initiated by the teacher to assist with student’s ability to master academic concepts and skills.
• Following training by appropriate personnel, assist medical professionals with medical procedures by comforting, stabilizing and/or positioning the student.
• Following training by appropriate personnel (nurse, physical therapist, occupational therapist or other licensed professional), assist students with independent living skills (e.g. eating/feeding, restroom skills, and personal hygiene) excluding specialized health care procedures.
• Toileting
• Assist the teacher and other licensed staff with individual learning activities whenever requested.
• Perform routine clerical duties and record keeping such as taking roll, collecting monies, completing forms and correcting papers. Use copy machines, computers, and other equipment to prepare learning materials and resources.
• Requisition, store, and maintain an appropriate inventory of textbooks, instructional materials, supplies, and equipment.
• Assist students with building self-esteem by providing proper examples, emotional support, a friendly attitude and general guidance.
• Oversee groups of students during playground activities as assigned; assure safe outdoor play; accompany students on a school bus as assigned.
• Clean work areas (e.g. changing pillow cover, disposing of body fluids, wiping counters) to maintain a sanitary environment.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

With or without the use of aids, the ability to lift up to 50 pounds, sufficient strength to lift non-ambulatory students, lift and move adaptive equipment, and physically restrain and control a student up to 200 pounds with assistance, sufficient body movement and mobility to demonstrate gross motor activities, climb in and out of cars, vans, and buses, to walk and run with students, climb well enough to go up and down stairs, to maneuver students into and out of vehicles, wheelchairs, and toilets, sufficient vision to read printed material, with or without aids, sufficient hearing to hear normal and telephone conversations with or without aids, ability to speak in an understandable voice with sufficient volume to be heard in normal conversation, manual dexterity to write and use telephone and other…