Paraprofessional, Special Services

Paraprofessional Job Post

Qualifications:

• 60 college credit hours
• Associate's degree or higher
• Missouri Para Pro Assessment passing score (before September 23, 2013)
• Missouri Paraprofessional Assessment passing score (after September 23, 2013), Or
• Completed Missouri's 20-hour online substitute training program.

Terms of Employment:

7 hours/day; 187 days/school term

Performance Responsibilities:

• Administer, score and record such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
• Work with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Assist the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
• Operate and care for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
• Assist students to master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher.
• Distribute and collect workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction.
• Guide independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
• Assist with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
• Assist with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and story-telling.
• Read to students, listen to students read, and participate in other forms of oral communication with students.
• Assists students in the library media center.
• Check notebooks, correct papers, and supervise testing and make-up work as assigned by the teacher.
• Check and record student attendance.
• Help students with their clothing.
• Assist student with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines.
• Assist student with wash-up and toilet routines.
• Alert the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• Serve as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
• Maintain the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of a fully licensed teacher.
• Participate in in-service training programs as assigned.
• Other related duties as assigned by Building administrator.

FLSA:
Non-Exempt

Clearances:
Criminal Justice Fingerprint/Background Clearance