What are the responsibilities and job description for the Early Childhood Special Education Para-Professional 2024-2025 position at Hazelwood School District?
POSITION TITLE: Early Childhood Para-Professional
REPORTS TO: School Principal/Site Director
PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT
The period of employment is the school term or nine and one-half (9.5) months annually (40hours per week).
Shift type: Full-time
POSITION SUMMARY: Assists the principal(s) and teacher(s) in maintaining appropriate classroom activities and environment in order that students may learn effectively.
REQUIREMENTS:
Substitute Certification, issued through the Department of Education (DESE). See below for additonal information.
FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB
Essential Functions
- Participates in daily and long-range lesson and classroom activity planning.
- Conducts learning exercises with small groups of children.
- Guides children in working and playing harmoniously with other children.
- Alerts the teacher to special needs of individual children.
- Provides escort assistance for children as necessary.
- Helps maintain informal student performance records.
- Assists teacher(s) on maintaining student work and study areas.
- Assists with the supervision of children during play periods.
- Assists with supervision of children during breakfast, snack and lunch periods.
- Collects and displays suitable material for educational displays.
- Assists with ensuring that children leave on the correct van or bus after school.
- Maintains discipline before, during or after school as the students enter the building.
- Works flexible hours based on school needs.
- Assists student with toileting routines including cleaning up student accidents and diaper changes.
- May be assigned in a 1-on-1 capacity to assist student with special education needs to fulfill Individual Education Program (IEP) goals.
Marginal Functions
1. May answer phones and take messages, as required.
2. May make and/scan copies of materials and perform other routine clerical tasks as necessary.
3. May assist with cleaning up spills and accidents and periodic cleaning of classroom equipment.
Physical/Visual Activities or Demands:
- Standing, walking, sitting, climbing, balancing, reaching, pushing, talking, hearing.
- Normal attention with clarity of vision at 20 inches or less as well as 20 feet or more; ability to ID and distinguish colors, and to see an area up and down or to right or left while fixed on point, all required.
- Light physical demand with regular lifting of very light to light (1 to 25 lbs.) items or occasional lifting of heavier items and/or children (over 25 lbs.), by hand.
Environmental/Atmospheric Conditions:
Subject to both inside (classroom) and outside (playground) conditions and sometimes high noise levels.
POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
Education: Equivalent to high school plus additional broad specialized training equal to two years of college. Requires a minimum of 60 hours college credit or alternative pathway to certification
Experience: Requires a minimum of three months up to and including one year of experience working in a classroom teaching environment.
Skills and Abilities:
- Apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form. Deal with problems involving several concrete variables in or from standardized situations.
- Add, subtract, multiply, and divide all units of measure.
- Perform reading, writing, and speaking at a basic level.
Alternative Pathways:
There are three pathways to secure a substitute certificate in Missouri.
1. have a minimum of 60 college credit hours,
2. complete a 20-hour course online, or
3. Complete the Parapro assessment, with a passing grade.
If you do not have 60 credit hours, you should choose options 2 or 3. The links for each are listed below.
Machines, Tools, Equipment, and Work Aids:
Computer and related software including Internet access, copy machine, and lamination machine.
License(s)/Certification(s) Required:
Substitute Teacher Certification (can be obtained post-offer) or current Missouri Teaching Certification
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Salary : $17 - $21
