Long-Term Substitute Paraprofessional Early Childhood Special Education

Long-Term Substitute Paraprofessional for Early Childhood Special Education

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Position Title: Long-Term Substitute Special Education Paraprofessional
Location: Early Childhood Special Education Center
Department: Special Education
Reports To: Building Principal
Term: Approx. December 3rd, 2025 – March 30th, 2026
Schedule: Monday-Thursday 3 hours/day 12:45pm-3:45pm
Salary: $17.95/hr

The Long-Term Substitute Special Education Paraprofessional will cover the absence of the Special Education Paraprofessional and assist teachers at the preschool level. The role involves providing daily instructional and non-instructional support, skill instruction, and behavior reduction protocols to learners with disabilities under the supervision of the classroom teacher and special programs principal.

Please complete the application and include an up-to-date resume, a letter of interest, and three professional references.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform all essential duties and requirements satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities.

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent.
• Associate’s Degree or higher preferred.
• Experience working in a preschool setting preferred.
• Experience working with complex behaviors preferred.

• Collaboration:
  • Develops positive, effective working relationships with learners and staff.
• Communication:
  • Connects and shares ideas through appropriate/applicable formats to express thoughts and ideas with integrity.
• Compassion:
  • Understands the complexities of cultural and global issues and how they relate to employee and learners’ experiences.
  • Partners with others to resolve potential controversy and conflict through respectful discussion.
  • Proactively seeks to understand the ideas, opinions, and skills of others.
• Creativity:
  • Connects with team members and shares ideas in an effort to improve the overall learner and employee experience.
• Critical Thinking:
  • Reasons, interprets, and analyzes information to generate new knowledge and understanding.
• Reflection:
  • Maintains communication with supervisor and director regarding general feedback, career advancement opportunities, and areas of growth opportunities.
• Resilience:
  • Maintains composure while dealing with stressful situations.
  • Proactively seeks out resolutions and takes initiative to resolve knowledge gaps.
• Responsibility:
  • Provides skills instruction and behavior management strategies outlined in learner behavior plans or formal training to learners with disabilities, individually or in small groups, under the supervision of the classroom educator and special educator.
  • Accurately collects observable behavior data including Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence, count, frequency, duration, latency, inter-response time, event, and interval-based recording.
  • Constructs, copies and distributes and uses educational materials as instructed by special educator.
  • Implements learners’ positive behavior support plans with fidelity as specified by educators and support staff.
  • Provides structure by consistently conducting daily lesson plans set up by educator.
  • Provides supervision (examples: playground, cafeteria, recess, drop off/pick up, study hall, bus duty) as directed by the building principal and supervisor.
  • Accompanies learners on field trips to support safety, supervision, and to carry out plans and accommodations to enrich their experience.
  • Assists in upholding and enforcing school rules and district policies and procedures.

• Regularly required to reach with hands and arms.
• Regularly required to stand, walk, bend, talk, and hear.
• Vision abilities required: close and peripheral vision.
• May frequently lift up to ~25 pounds without assistance.
• May occasionally lift up to ~50 pounds without assistance.
• May have to push/pull up to ~120 pounds while performing duties.
• May perform a two-person transport, restraint, or lift (with training provided).
• May come in contact with blood borne pathogens or other bodily fluids on rare occasions.
• Will work in an environment that has a…