SPED Paraprofessional w​/ or w​/o coaching

Para-Professional / Educational Assistant

Reports To:

Teachers and Administrators

Job Goal:
To assist the teacher in achieving teaching objectives by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve a proficient skill level.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of materials or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing materials or skills based on an understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
• Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
• Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
• Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and make-up work, as assigned by the teacher.
• Assists with large group activities such as drill work, reading aloud, and story telling.
• Serves as a resource of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• Maintains a high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of a fully licensed teacher.
• Participates in in-service training programs, as assigned or approved by the immediate supervisor.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the supervisor.