Behavioral Support Paraprofessional

Behavioral Support Paraprofessional

Starting Date: Aug 6, 2026

This person will provide support to students with disabilities who exhibit significant physical aggression due to the severity of their disability. In one or small group settings, the employee must be willing to work with students who may demonstrate physical aggression, frequent outbursts, and be emotionally, physically or mentally impaired.

• Assist certified staff in devising special strategies for reinforcing learning materials and skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
• Work with individual children or small groups of children to reinforce new skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Protect confidentiality of records and information gained as part of exercising professional duties and use discretion in sharing such information within legal confines.
• Provide verbal support, prompting, redirection, and modeling to help the students access the curriculum and interact with certified staff members and learning activities.
• Work cooperatively with other paraprofessionals, certified and licensed staff to facilitate positive interactions for the student with all staff and to take instructions from a variety of school staff responsible for the student’s education.
• Adapt classroom activities, assignments, and/or materials under the direction of the classroom teacher and the special services program coordinator for the purpose of supporting and reinforcing classroom objectives.
• Monitor individual and/or groups of students in a variety of settings (e.g., restrooms, playgrounds, hallways, bus loading zones, cafeteria, assemblies, field trips, etc.) to maintain a safe and positive learning environment.
• Document students’ daily activities (e.g., behavior, completed assignments, on/off task times, etc.) for the purpose of completing daily logs and student hourly activities.
• Implement under the supervision of the special services program coordinator, behavioral plans designed by the IEP team for students with behavior disorders or other special conditions to present and/or reinforce learning concepts and maintain a safe and positive learning environment.
• Create and hold professional development sessions for incoming paraprofessionals.
• Communicate effectively with the special services program coordinator, teachers, building staff, and parents.
• Assist in de‑escalating challenging behaviors utilizing verbal de‑escalation strategies to prevent further escalation.
• Daily data collection is required.
• Participate in additional professional development as determined by the district to encourage appropriate positive behavior interventions and implementation.

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Must have 48 hours of transcripted college credit, or have passed, or be able to pass, the Para Pro Test.
• Experience working with students in a school or clinical setting who demonstrate at‑risk behaviors is preferred.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license, maintain a safe driving record, and have reliable transportation.
• CPR certification, or willingness and ability to obtain.
• CPI certification, or willingness and ability to obtain.

• Must be able to regularly lift and/or restrain students in excess of 100 pounds.
• May exert up to fifty pounds of force occasionally, up to twenty pounds frequently, and up to ten pounds constantly to move objects and provide redirection.
• Significant portion of each work day will involve working with students who may demonstrate physical aggression, frequent outbursts, and be emotionally, physically, and/or mentally impaired.
• Must successfully complete CPI training, which includes demonstrating safety technique exercises such as blocking strikes, grabbing releases, wrist grab release, hair pull release, neck grab release, bite release, body grab release, clothing grab release and nonviolent crisis intervention holds (blocks, CPI Children’s standing and seated hold, CPI seated hold, CPI standing hold).
• May experience constant interruptions and changes to normal routines.
• Will be required to travel to multiple work sites in a given work day.
• Must be able to see, touch, hear, and speak: frequently required to stand, walk, sit; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

• 178‑day contract, 7.5 hours per day.
• Benefits include health insurance, contributions to the Oklahoma Teachers Retirement System, a $10,000 life insurance policy, vision insurance, and paid time off.
• Subject to post‑offer/pre‑employment functional capacity exam.
• Pay ratio 1.29.

Non‑Exempt Classified

Performance of this job will be evaluated annually in accordance with the provisions of the Board’s policy of evaluation for certified personnel. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.