Special Education Paraprofessional

POSITION TITLE:

Special Education Paraprofessional

McRae Elementary

QUALIFICATIONS:

* 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

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

* 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 inservice training programs, as assigned.

* Performs specialized services to students as required by specific responsibilities.

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