Preschool Paraeducator

PRESCHOOL PARA EDUCATOR

The Dieringer Heights Cougar Cubs Preschool is committed to providing a safe, nurturing and child centered environment. We support individual learning styles, curiosity, strengths and challenges in an inclusive classroom community, with programs for 3 and 4-year old’s. Our integrated preschool includes typically developing children as well as children with developmental delays. The classroom offers children the opportunity to work and play with age appropriate peers as well as friends with developmental challenges.

Working together with their classmates, they discover their similarities and develop a better understanding of their differences.

The Dieringer Heights Cougar Cubs Preschool program offers opportunities for children to be actively involved in a variety of flexible, but consistent structured routines and activities designed to develop the foundation for children to be successful in school; language and listening skills; fine and gross motor development; early literacy skills; early math concepts; art and music; and social emotional development. We will offer an environment where children become independent, confident, lifelong learners with a strong sense of self.

• Provides support under supervision of classroom teacher
• Provide behavioral interventions for students when needed
• Follow teacher instructions and plan of classroom schedules, working independently at times
• Maintain confidentiality of student information
• Establish and maintain positive rapport with staff and students
• Supervise students in the lunchroom, playground and bus.
• Participate in training activities
• Perform other duties as assigned by teacher or administrator

• Ability to work independently and cooperatively with staff and students
• Ability to maintain a professional demeanor in all situations and must be able to withhold confidential information
• Ability to work well with all levels of internal management, staff, and students as well as parents/guardians
• Ability to respond to changing situations in the workplace and exhibit flexibility
• Ability to perform multiple tasks concurrently under varying deadlines and adapt to changing work priorities
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and with frequent interruptions
• Ability to demonstrate regular attendance and punctuality
• Ability to exercise tact, good judgment, and initiative in dealing with students, faculty, and parents/guardians

Work is performed primarily in a school setting and may include classrooms, hallways, playgrounds, buses, and other school environments. The position requires frequent standing, walking, sitting, bending, stooping, kneeling, reaching, and occasional work at floor level. The position may involve exposure to varying noise levels, bodily fluids, and unexpected student movements or behaviors.

Paid Time Off

Health Related Benefits

Attendance Incentives

DCPEA Collective Bargaining Agreement

The Dieringer School District does not discriminate in any programs or activities based on sex, race, ethnicity, creed, religion, color, national origin, honorably discharged veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, homelessness, immigration or citizenship status, the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability, neurodivergence, or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal by a person with a disability, and provides equal access to Scouting America and other designated youth groups.

The following employee has been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged discrimination:
Dr. Paula Dawson, Superintendent:
Phone: .