Para Educator, Bilingual -IN DISTRICT
Listed on 2026-05-31
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Education / Teaching
Elementary School, Child Development/Support, Special Needs / Learning Disabilities
Para Educator, Bilingual Preferred-IN DISTRICT ONLY
SUNNYSIDE SCHOOL DIST 201 PIONEER ELEMENTARY - Sunnyside, Washington Open in Google Maps
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Job DetailsJob : 5722557
Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled
Posted: May 18, 2026 7:00 AM (UTC)
Starting Date: Aug 20, 2026
Job DescriptionSchool Year
Must be 21 years of age or older.
Required:
Must upload a copy of High School diploma, High School transcript, or G.E.D.
POSITION TITLE:
Para Educator, Bilingual Preferred-IN DISTRICT ONLY
LOCATION:
Pioneer Elementary
DATE POSTED: 05/18/2026
JOB NUMBER: CL
HOURS/DAYS: 6.5/190
BENEFITS:
Para Educator Benefits
Sunnyside School District
JOB DESCRIPTION
JOB TITLE:
Para Educator
REPORTS TO:
Building Principal and Assigned Teacher
UNIT CLASSIFICATION: PSE Para Educators
PRIMARY
PURPOSE:
Employees in this job classification are directly involved in helping students achieve their maximum potential through the instructional program. Responsibilities include
1) One-to-one instruction of students
2) Small group instruction
3) In and out of classroom supervision of students and
4) General assistance to the teacher.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- 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 an understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
- Maintain records and charts indicating students’ progress and attendance.
- Provide students with practice in identified skill areas.
- Assist students in their understanding of instruction concepts.
- Guide independent work.
- Inform classroom teacher of students’ progress or concerns.
- Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends.
- Regular sanitation of classroom manipulatives, tables, etc.
- Serve as the chief source of information and help to substitute teacher.
- Provide positive behavioral support, implements consequences for inappropriate behavior, communicates and implements student discipline plan, evaluates students’ needs and provide interventions to redirect behavior, assesses crisis situations, and intervenes to defuse situations using conflict resolution.
- Assists teacher in monitoring student behavior and disciplines students as authorized.
- Restrain a student from harming self or others.
- Assists with the supervision of students both inside and outside.
- Assist with bulletin board and other classroom learning displays.
- Assist with large group activities.
- Assist with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines (Elementary level).
- Assists with wash-up and toilet routines (Elementary level).
- Maintain the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
OTHER FUNCTIONS:
- Maintain a high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality.
- Performs other related duties as assigned for the purpose of ensuring the efficient and effective functioning of the work unit.
WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:
Communicates regularly and in a positive manner with students, parents/guardians, instructional, and support staff. Required to deal with a wide range of student behaviors; required to deal with a wide range of physical and emotional disabilities; may occasionally deal with distraught or difficult students.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
The daily work is performed in a classroom setting. May be required to work outdoors in inclement weather. Potentially exposed to ordinary infectious diseases carried by students; exposed to student noise levels; required to lift, move, and position students and equipment; playground supervision and bus loading requires working outdoors in inclement weather; required to attend to students’ personal hygiene; may be exposed to biting behavior;
may need to take precautions to avoid exposure to student bodily fluids and cleaning or disinfecting compounds; required to work in non-routine positions for extended periods.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education and Experience
Must provide proof of high school diploma or G.E.D.
Pass State Assessment for Para…
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