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Special Education Paraprofessional

Special Education Paraprofessional

West Memphis School DistrictWest Memphis, AR, United States
6 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Responsibilities :

  • Work with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of materials or skills initially introduced and outlined by teacher.
  • Work with students who may require behavioral management support.
  • Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing learning materials and skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
  • Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
  • Performs clerical, classroom maintenance, and instructional duties as assigned by the teacher.
  • Performs assigned supervision of students during meals, adaptive PE, extra-curricular activities, and other areas as assigned by the teacher.
  • Performs assigned non-instructional classroom duties, such as personal care needs, transitioning, and transporting.
  • Demonstrates ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students in school environment and community.
  • Participates in in-service training programs as approved.
  • Perform all duties assigned.

Qualifications :

  • Associate's degree and / or 60 earned college hours and / or passed ParaPro Assessment with a score of 457
  • Prefer prior experience working with special needs children
  • Must be able to perform heavy lifting of students and equipment
  • Possess a strong desire to assist students with special needs in a learning environment