General Paraeducator

Gilroy Unified School District Glen View Elementary School - Gilroy, California

General Para- TK Program

Must have 48 college units or an AA degree or higher.

Description of Basic Functions and Responsibilities: To assist the teacher to achieve teaching objectives by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole.

• 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, interests 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, assemblies, play periods and field trips.
• Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud and story telling.
• Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communications with students.
• Assists students in the library or media center.
• Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and make-up work, as assigned by teacher.
• Checks and records student attendance.
• Collects and records collection of money.
• Helps students with their clothing.
• Assists with lunch, snack and clear-up routines.
• Assists with toilet routines.
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• Serves as 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 program, as assigned.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships with those contacted in the performance of required duties.

• Knowledge of English usage, vocabulary, grammar and spelling.
• Ability to perform moderately difficult clerical work.
• Give oral and written direction.
• Ability to speak, read, and write in English.
• Ability to compute basic math calculations.
• Have 48 college units or an AA degree or higher.

• Citizenship, residency or work visa required.

• Lee Anne Vallejos, Supervisor, Human Resources
• District Office
• Phone:
• Email: leeanne.vallejos