What are the responsibilities and job description for the Middle School Paraprofessional position at Arkansas Department of Education?
Qualifications
Performance Responsibilities
EOE
4-Day School Week
Tuesday-Friday
- Complete two years of study at an institution of higher education (minimum 60 credit hours), OR
- Obtain an Associate of Arts (AA) degree, OR
- Pass the state approved paraprofessional test.
- Prior job experience.
Performance Responsibilities
- This position has a focus on Reading Intervention.
- Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
- Works with individual students or small groups 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 the teacher.
- 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, play periods, and field trips.
- Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
- 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.
- Performs specialized services to students as required by specific responsibilities.
EOE
4-Day School Week
Tuesday-Friday
