Anticipated Elementary Paraprofessional (7 hrs/day)

Title: 6.03  Educational Assistant - Special Education (1:1 Special Needs; 7 hrs/day) 
Reports to: Principal, assistant superintendent, local superintendent
Work Activity Classification: Medium
Employment Status: Part-time or full-time
FLSA Status: Non-exempt

Background Check Required 

Qualifications:

1. Appropriate State of Ohio certification

2. High school graduate or equivalent

3. 18 years of age or more

4. Demonstrate a sincere desire to aid all students

5. High moral character and good attendance record

6. Demonstrate aptitude for successful completion of tasks assigned

General Description: Assist the classroom teacher with teaching and non-teaching functions.

Essential Functions:

1. Simple checking of homework and tests, using a teacher-made key.

2. Prepare bulletin boards.

3. Operate instructional technology equipment.

4. Prepare teacher aids for class work.

5. Operating duplicating equipment for the teacher.

6. Type duplicating masters, letters, reports, and mini-units for teachers.

7. Record information on health and/or other forms.

8. Reinforce/modify academic skills under the teacher’s direction.

9. Assist the teacher in the supervision of various classroom activities, field trips, and so forth.

10. Participate with the teacher in lesson and activity planning.

Other Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Serve as a role model for students in how to conduct themselves as citizens and as responsible, intelligent human beings.

2. Help instill in students the belief in and practice of ethical principles and democratic values.

3. Conduct other related educational assistant duties as assigned by the principal and/or local superintendent and as permitted by the negotiated agreement. 

Additional Working Conditions:

1. Occasional exposure to blood, bodily fluids, and tissue.

2. Occasional interaction among unruly children.

Terms of Employment

Salary and work year to be established by the board.

As a condition of restoring an employee who was absent on FMLA leave due to the employee’s own serious health condition, an employer may have a uniformly applied policy or practice that requires all similarly situated employees who take leave for such conditions to submit a certification from the employee’s own health care provider that the employee is able to resume work. Under the regulations, an employer may require that the fitness-for-duty certification address the employee’s ability to perform the essential functions of the position if the employer has appropriately notified the employee that this information will be required and has provided a list of essential functions. Additionally, an employer may require a fitness-for-duty certification up to once every 30 days for an employee taking intermittent or reduced schedule FMLA leave if reasonable safety concerns exist regarding the employee’s ability to perform his or her duties based on the condition for which leave was taken.
 

If an employee fails to timely submit a properly requested medical certification (absent sufficient explanation of the delay), FMLA protection for the leave may be delayed or denied. If the employee never provides a medical certification, then the leave is not FMLA leave.  

If an employee fails to submit a properly requested fitness-for-duty certification, the employer may delay job restoration until the employee provides the certification.  If the employee never provides the certification, he or she may be denied reinstatement.

Evaluation

Performance of this job will be evaluated annually in accordance with provisions of the board's policy on evaluation of classified personnel.

Re-approval Date: October 28, 2013

Salary : $14 - $15