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Job Description
We are seeking Paraeducators for our REACH Program!
- Do you thrive in a role where compassion patience and purpose come together
- Are you ready to build meaningful connections with students who will inspire you daily
- Are you looking for a job with joy growth and connection
- Do you believe every student has the potential to learn grow and thrivewith the right support
Assabet Valley Collaborative (AVC) is an educational service agency in Metrowest/Central Massachusetts. Our services include school programs wraparound services transportation services professional development cooperative purchasing and consulting. AVCs REACH is a program designed to meet the diverse physical medical and learning needs of students ages 3-18. Check out our Facebook page!
Paraeducator Role Overview
Job Responsibilities
The Paraprofessional at AVC supports the overall programming and services in order to maximize the safety and learning goals within the classroom. Paraeducators will engage in 1:1 small group and or whole group engagement opportunities. Paraeducators are needed to perform the following roles and additional other duties and responsibilities as needed.
Relationships and Community
- Ability to establish and maintain positive and nurturing rapport with students.
- Ability to be flexible and adapt to the evolving needs of students and school environment.
- Awareness of student accommodation needs
- Respect and appreciation for multiple differences including learning communication behavioral cultural and familial differences
- Participating in routine community building activities
- Supporting and collaborating with colleagues
Teaching and Learning
- Ability to assist and reinforce the elements that support an effective teaching and learning environment
- Knowledge of the similarities and differences between the cognitive communicative physical social and emotional needs of students and the factors that influence these different needs.
- An understanding of the purpose and goals of education and instruction for students
- Assisting with instruction and activities for groups and individuals as assigned.
- Assisting with the day to day operation of the school environment by monitoring/supervising and assisting students throughout program space
- Collecting and submitting data regarding goals/outcomes as related to students IEPs Transition Plans and other plans as assigned.
- Assisting with instructional service delivery as indicated
- Accompanying students to field trips
Safety and Wellness
- Ability to assist and reinforce the elements that support a safe healthy learning environment
- Ability to redirect behaviors and offer positive reinforcements as needed
- Ability to collect and record performance data on students under the direction of licensed professionals.
- Meeting the physical requirements necessary to physically intervene in a crisis or emergency
- Assisting ambulatory children to young adults
- Assisting/lifting children to young adult students for hygiene changes into various pieces of positioning equipment and in and out of transportation vehicles
- Bending twisting pushing pulling climbing squatting crawling and kneeling as needed
Qualifications:
Were looking for a Paraeducator who serves as a leader and as a learner; a team member who is flexible resourceful and thrives in a fast-paced non-traditional collaborative environment and who understands educational and human service institutions. This person demonstrates a learning mindset and ability to receive feedback self-reflect and pivot as the needs of students are ever changing. Non-traditional candidates from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply and expand their compatibility.
Ideal candidates have:
- Experience working in schools nonprofits human service organizations
- Flexibility versatility and follow through
- Teamwork skills - including navigating conflict
- Ability to seek and provide clear and direct feedback
- Bilingual or multilingual is a plus
- Ability to thrive within a team while also being able to work independently
- Valid drivers license safe driving record and ability to transport students in AVC vehicles (vans) (preferred)
- Physical ability to execute job responsibilities that include transferring lifting or shifting students or equipment and managing equipment.
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Employment Type
Full-Time
