About This Role
Supporting a well-organized and smoothly functioning classroom environment is the core of this paraprofessional role, ensuring that students can fully benefit from the program and available resources.
Responsibilities
- Administer, score, and record achievement and diagnostic tests as recommended by the teacher for individual students
- Work with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher
- Assist the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities
- Operate and care for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes
- Help students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher
- Distribute and collect workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction
- Guide independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher
- Assist with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assembly, play periods, and field trips
- Keep bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up to date
- Assist with large group activities such as drill work, reading aloud, and storytelling
- Read to students, listen to students read, and participate in other forms of oral communication with students
- Assist students in the library or media center
- Check notebooks, correct papers, and supervise testing and make-up work, as assigned by the teacher
- Check and record student attendance
- Collect and record collection of money
- Help students with their clothing
- Help with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines
- Assist with wash-up and toilet routines
- Alert the regular teacher to any problems or special information about an individual student
- Serve as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher
- Maintain the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers
- Participate in inservice training programs as assigned
- Carry out other appropriate activities as assigned by the teacher and/or administrator
Requirements
- Valid paraprofessional license issued by the State of Illinois and registered in Region 07 South Cook ISC4
Important Details
- Reports to: Classroom Teacher, Principal, and other administrators
