Teacher Assistant - Division Wide

Paraprofessional – 10-Month Contract

The Paraprofessional plays a vital role in supporting classroom instruction and maintaining a positive learning environment. Working under the direction of the classroom teacher, the Paraprofessional provides direct assistance to students, particularly those with special needs. Paraprofessional reinforces instruction, monitors behavior, and offers emotional and physical assistance tailored to each student's individual needs.

• Communication &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Maintain open communication with parents/guardians, colleagues, and administrators to support student success.
• Individualized Support:
  Provide support to both the classroom teacher and students to foster a conducive and inclusive learning environment. Assists students with essential life skills, including Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), to promote independence and functional ability. These tasks may include personal hygiene, dressing, feeding, toileting, and mobility.
• Moral & Ethical Integrity:
  Maintain a high ethical standard in teaching, grading, and student/parent interactions, ensuring a respectful environment for all parties.
• Recordkeeping:
  Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by the district and VDOE.
• Safety:
  Adhere to established infection control standards, health management procedures, and safety protocols to maintain a clean, healthy, and secure classroom setting.
• Other:
  Demonstrates exceptional interpersonal skills, including empathy and patience. Provides clear communication and collaborates effectively with colleagues who administer individualized learning plans tailored to each student's unique needs. Exhibits sensitivity and adaptability to respond to multi-faceted challenges, while supporting a safe, inclusive, and supportive classroom environment where every student can thrive and feel comfortable.

All other duties as assigned.

• Adaptability & Accountability:
  Adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands, open to criticism and feedback, changes approach or method to best fit the situation, and takes responsibility for own actions.
• Attendance & Punctuality:
  Schedules time off in advance, begins working on time, keeps absences within guidelines, ensures work responsibilities are covered when absent, and arrives at meetings and appointments on time. Coordinate substitute teacher coverage in advance of absence.
• Business Ethics:
  Works with integrity and ethically, upholds the school district's values, and abides by written school board policies and processes.
• Communication:
  Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English and take direction from supervisors. Expresses ideas and thoughts both verbally and in written form, exhibits good listening skills and comprehension, responds well to questions, and writes clearly and informatively. Edits work for spelling and grammar. Presents accurate numerical data effectively.
• Compliance:
  Within the specified functional area of authority, is personally accountable to understand and ensure regulatory and policy compliance with state and federal requirements in accordance with their respective job duties and responsibilities.
• Confidentiality:
  Maintains a high degree of confidentiality.
• Culture:
  Demonstrates and supports a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion through cultivating awareness, continuous development, and modeling inclusive behaviors.
• Customer Service:
  Provides prompt and high-quality service to parents/guardians, colleagues, and any internal/external customers. Ability to remain calm in stressful situations. Resolves issues in a timely and professional manner.
• Independence of Action:
  Sets goals and determines how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Follow precedents and procedures. Seeks assistance when confronted with difficult and/or unpredictable situations.
• Judgment:
  Displays willingness to make decisions timely, exhibits sound and accurate judgment, supports and explains reasoning for decisions, includes appropriate people in decision-making process, and takes responsibility for communication, including what is heard.
• Organization:
  Maintains…