TWO Positions:
6.50 hours/day
5.75 hours/day
Description:
Special Education Paraeducators are a unique group of people who are valuable members of the special education department.
Qualifications:
- Display a level of confidence and authority to students.
- Display professional behavior at all times.
- Possess an ability to be flexible, changing gears at a moment’s notice.
- Possess an open mind and sense of humor
- Ability to handle conflict.
- Attend all required training.
- Excellent attendance and punctuality.
Job Expectations:
- Work with high needs student(s) to promote success within the school setting.
- Develop a working knowledge of the students with which you are working.
- Enthusiastically acknowledge student success.
- Develop a positive working relationship with the student while retaining your professionalism as a staff member.
- Provide positive feedback when the student is behaving appropriately.
- Redirect student when necessary to keep him/her on task.
- Work with the student within the parameters of the individualized education plan.
- Scribe accurately for students if directed by the special education case manager and/or teacher.
- Monitor and supervise students throughout the school day.
- Perform various other duties including supervision and escorting students between classes when necessary.
- Keep in regulat contact with regular education teacher; be the liaison between special education teacher and regular classroom teacher when appropriate.
- Work with all students in the classroom but your priority will be the students to which you are assigned.
- Be willing and able to teach small groups of students per the teacher instructions.
- Maintain a log of activities that take place throughout the day and chart student behavior as instructed by the special education teacher.
- Work to incorporate students into the school-to-work program as they transition.
- Demonstrate flexibility as student and program needs change.
Physical Requirements:
The usual and customary methods of performing the job’s functions require the following physical demands:
- Ability to regularly walk, sit, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, push, pull.
- Ability to work indoors and outdoors; inclement weather at times
- Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
Mandatory Conditions of Employment
- High School diploma, or equivalent, and
- Have one of the following:
- An AA Degree from an accredited academic college or university
- A minimum of 72 college quarter credits
- Have passed a district-recognized assessment of basic skills and instructional proficiency (currently the ETS test)
- Training in use of behavior management preferred.
- Ability to work collaboratively as a team.
- Previous successful work with children with behavioral challenges preferred
- Successful clearance of the FBI and Washington State Patrol fingerprint background check
- Successful Washington State Sexual Misconduct clearance
- Completion of federal I-9 form
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