About This Role
This special education paraeducator role involves working closely with students with disabilities to provide the physical, academic, and emotional support they need to reach their potential within the district's special education program. The position focuses on assisting a few students on a regular basis.
Responsibilities
- Assist students with day-to-day activities including eating meals, bathrooming, toileting, diapering, hygiene, school assignments, getting from one class to another, grooming, handwashing, face washing, bib and clothes washing, and gathering homework and packing bookbag
- Support classroom teacher in instructional interaction
- Support classroom teacher in planning and preparation
- Interact with students, helping to address individual needs
- Attend and participate in IEP meetings
- Collaborate with teacher on home visits and required assessments
- Listen to students in recitation, reading, and other curriculum tasks, guiding and helping them, but not teaching them
- Work with small groups of students to reinforce material initially introduced by the teacher
- Prepare lessons and instructional materials for individual students as directed by teacher; maintain daily records of achievement
- Support one-on-one student with physical assistance
- Perform simple errands and tasks for students such as sharpening pencils and carrying lunch trays
- Accompany assigned students on trips to the office or the school nurse
- Prepare students for mainstreamed classes according to established procedures
- Communicate with and draw support from teacher, occupational therapist, physical therapist, and special needs teacher to maximize academic benefits
- Collaborate with physical education teacher to adapt lessons to student’s physical abilities
- Provide instruction and assistance to handicapped students in social, self-help, and community skills
- Establish as full as possible a supportive and sympathetic relationship with students without fostering or encouraging intense emotional involvement
- Serve as a resource person if requested to the student personnel evaluation team conferring about one of the students assigned
- Supervise interaction with other children for physical safety reasons
- Perform a variety of clerical duties such as preparing and duplicating instructional materials, ordering supplies, and recording grades
- Provide support to the teacher by setting up work areas, displays and exhibits, operating audio-visual equipment, operating educational training equipment, and distributing and collecting paper and supplies
- Assure the health and safety of students by following health and safety practices and procedure; assist in maintaining a clean and orderly classroom environment