Caregiver, Teacher Assistant​/ Paraprofessional, Special Education Assistant

CAREGIVER

Western Line School District O'Bannon Elementary - Greenville, Mississippi Open in Google Maps

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Job : 5914829

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Posted: Sep 03, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

Qualifications:

• Successfully passed 48 college course hours or Associate’s Degree
• Understanding of children

Reports To: Principal

Job Goal: To assist the teacher, achieve teaching objectives by working with individual or small groups of students to help them achieve the skill level of the class as a whole.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Assist the teacher in administering, scoring, and recording 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 the 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.
• Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up-to-date.
• 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 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.
• Assist with lunch, snack, and clean-up routines.
• Assists with wash-up and toilet routines.
• Alerts the regular teacher of nay problem or special information about an individual student.
• Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute.
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of the certified teacher.
• Participates in professional development activities as assigned.
• Performs such other tasks and assumes such other responsibility as the teacher may from time to time assign.

Terms of employment: 187 days a year. Salary to be established by the Board.

Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board’s policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.

Position Type: Full-Time