Special Education Paraprofessional

Special Education Paraprofessional Searcy School District Westside Elementary School - Searcy, Arkansas Open in Google Maps

This job is also posted in Arkansas Jobs In Ed, and Searcy Public Schools

Job : 5728742

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Posted: May 20, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Aug 13, 2026

POSITION TITLE: Special Education Paraprofessional

Westside

• High School diploma and required special training.
• Prior job experience.

Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

REPORTS TO: Teacher or Designated Supervisor

• 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 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.
• Helps students with their clothing.
• Assists with lunch, snack and cleanup routines.
• Assists with wash‑up and toilet routines.
• 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 fully licensed teachers.
• Participates in in‑service training programs, as assigned.
• Performs specialized services to students as required by specific responsibilities.

for salary schedule

Position Type: Full‑Time

• Dr. Bobby Hart , Superintendent
• 801 N. Elm Street
• Searcy, Arkansas 72143
• Phone:
• Email: bhart