Paraeducators

The Glenwood Community School District is currently accepting applications for a Special Education Para educator L 2/3 for the district.

PARA EDUCATOR-Level 2/3

GLENWOOD COMMUNITY SCHOOLS CLASSIFIED STAFF JOB DESCRIPTION

Position:
Para educator–Level 2/3

• Prefer previous experience working with children who have special needs
• High school diploma or equivalent

Essential Function:
Depends on specific position

Reports To:

Principal, special education teacher, general education teacher, and support staff

Consults With:
Special education teacher, and general education teacher

Position Goal:
To assist the teacher in maintaining developmentally appropriate classroom activities and learning environment so that children with special needs may learn effectively and reach their maximum potential.

• Attendance is necessary to be successful in this position.
• Demonstrates respect for the dignity of the sensitivity to the needs of students with disabilities.
• Ability to develop effective working relationships with students, staff, and the school community.
• Attends training/inservice opportunities as required.
• Keeps information related to individual children and families confidential.
• Check e-mail daily. E-mail teacher progress reports three times per week, for those students you assist in general education classes.
• Performs errands and tasks for students, only if they cannot do it themselves.
• Under supervision of the special education teacher, works with individuals or small groups to work on lessons initially introduced by the special education teacher.
• Accompanies the student(s) as needed when trips to the office or to the schoolnurseare necessary.
• Establishes as fully as possible a supportive and sympathetic relationship with the student(s) without fostering or encouraging intense emotional involvement.
• Serves as a resource person, if and when requested, to the child’s staffing team conferring about one of the students to whom assigned.
• Ability to regularly lift 40 pounds and push/pull up to 100 pounds.
• Assists the student(s) to whom assigned in such physical tasks as putting on andtaking off outerwear, moving from room to room, and using the lavatory.
• Assists with loading and unloading of buses.
• Lifts or assists with lifting students from wheelchairs to changing table, beds, orother designated areas.
• Collects and records data according to established criteria determined by the classroom teacher.
• Accompanies students individually or in-groups on mobility functions to reinforce lifeand work skills.
• Takes all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment,materials and facilities.
• Sanitizes classrooms and equipment using approved materials and methods.
• Provides personal hygiene activities with students, including appropriate response tovarious body fluids.
• Assists teacher in maintaining discipline and follows through on prescribed behavioral management programs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Terms of Employment:

Days students are in school. Wage schedules shall be subject to annual review and modification by the Glenwood Board of Education or through the collective bargaining process, where oneexists.

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