Special Needs Paraeducator

**Multiple Locations**

Job Description

Description of Basic Functions and Responsibilities: To assist the teacher to achieve teaching objectives by working with
individual students or small groups to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole.

Typical Duties:
Administers scores and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends forindividual students
Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initiallyintroduced by the teacher
Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympatheticunderstanding of individual students their needs interests and abilities
Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes
Helps students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by teacher
Distributes and collects workbooks papers and other materials for instruction
Guides independent study enrichment work and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher

Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills assemblies play periods and field trips
Assists with such large group activities as drill work reading aloud and story telling
Reads to students listens to students read and participates in other forms of oral communications withstudents
Assists students in the library or media center
Checks notebooks corrects papers and supervises testing and make-up work as assigned by teacher
Checks and records student attendance
Collects and records collection of money
Helps students with their clothing
Assists with lunch snack and clear-up routines
Assists with clean up and toilet routines
Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student
Serves as chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regularteacher
Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as isexpected of fully licensed teachers
Participates in in-service training program as assigned
Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships with those contacted in the performance of required duties.

Additional Typical Duties/Requirements for Special Needs Paraeducators:
Accompanies and assists individual student or small groups of students in vocational education classes andensures a safe environment for the student
Assists students on and off special education transportation
Assists regular classroom teacher to help facilitate mainstreaming of special education students
Performs duties under the direction of the school nurse relating to special education students
Manages potentially assaultive behaviors
Assists with adaptive technology or special equipment for special needs students
Accompanies students in the community during community-based instruction
May be asked to assist students in the swimming pool during Adaptive Physical Education

Employment Standards:
Knowledge of English usage vocabulary grammar and spelling
Ability to perform moderately difficult clerical work
Give oral and written direction
Ability to speak read and write in English
Ability to compute basic math calculations
Have 48 college units or an AA degree or higher

STATEMENT OF NON-DISCRIMINATION: The District does not discriminate against any person based on gender race color religion
national origin ethnic group actual or perceived sexual orientation marital or parental status physical or mental disability.