25-26 Early Childhood Special Service Paraprofessional

  NOTE:  This position is for the 2025-2026 school year. The salary will be based on the 2025-2026 salary schedule which is not yet approved by the Board of Education. The salary listed is based on the current year's salary schedule. 

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:

7 hours/day; 5 days per week

QUALIFICATIONS:

1. 60 college credit hours
2. Associate's degree or higher
3. Missouri ParaPro Assessment passing score (before September 23, 2013)
4. Missouri Paraprofessional Assessment passing score (after September 23, 2013), Or
5. Completed Missouri's 20-hour online substitute training program.

REPORTS TO: 

      Building principal, Special Education teacher                                                            

JOB GOAL: 

      To assist the teacher in achieving teaching objectives by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole, and by assisting the teacher in providing a well-organized, smoothly functioning class environment in which students can take full advantage of the instructional program and available resource materials.

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Administer, score and record such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
2. Work with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
3. Assist the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
4. Operate and care for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
5. Assist students to master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher.
6. Distribute and collect workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction.
7. Guide independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
8. Assist with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
9. Assist with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and story-telling.
10. Read to students, listen to students read, and participate in other forms of oral communication with students.
11. Assists students in the library media center.
12. Check notebooks, correct papers, and supervise testing and make-up work as assigned by the teacher.
13. Check and record student attendance.
14. Help students with their clothing.
15. Assist student with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines.
16. Assist student with wash-up and toilet routines.
17. Alert the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
18. Serve as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
19. Maintain the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of a fully licensed teacher.
20. Participate in in-service training programs as assigned.
21. Other related duties as assigned by Building administrator.

FLSA:  Non-Exempt

CLEARANCES:  Criminal Justice Fingerprint/Background Clearance

Salary : $19 - $25