General Education Paraprofessional- ANTICIPATED

Location: Glenwood

The Glenwood Community School District is currently accepting applications for a General Education Para educator at Northeast Elementary.

General Education Para educator GLENWOOD COMMUNITY SCHOOLS CLASSIFIED STAFF

JOB DESCRIPTION Position:
General Education Para educator

Qualifications:

• Previous experience working with children.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Keyboarding skills preferred.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Attendance is necessary to be successful in this position.
• 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 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, lunchroom, and field trips.
• Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up-to-date.
• Covers office duties when assigned.
• Able to cover recess/lunchroom duties in absence of assigned person.
• Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, etc.
• Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
• Assists students in the library / computer lab / media center.
• Assist in the media center as needed
• Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and make-up work, as assigned by the teacher.
• Checks and records student attendance.
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• Serves as the 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 all staff members.
• Participates in inservice training programs, as assigned.
• Update student's permanent records.
• 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 one exists.

Evaluation:

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