Paraprofessional

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Substitute Teaching License (PEL)
• Demonstrated aptitude for the successful completion of the tasks assigned
• Certificate of good health signed by a licensed physician
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable

DISTINGUISHING 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, and field trips
• Keeps bulletin boards 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
• Assists with lunch
• Assists with restroom 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 in-service training programs, as assigned

Pay: $17.00 per hour