Paraprofessional

Ozark, Alabama

Employer: Alabama State Department of Education
Industry: Paraprofessional
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Full-Time
Summary:
  • Performs any combination of the following tasks in the classroom to assist teaching staff with the individualization of instruction.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Directs class activities under supervision of a certified teacher.
  • Works with small groups to reinforce material initially introduced by teacher.
  • Assists teacher in managing students upon arrival to class, during class and departure from class.
  • Assists teacher in performance of routine responsibilities.
  • Assists students in need of special attention.
  • Assists students with non-instructional classroom activities, such as feeding, toileting, clothing routines, and personal hygiene needs.
  • Helps supervise students during lunch periods, assemblies and field trips.
  • Participates in planning and in-service activities as appropriate.
  • Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and and make-up work.
  • Assists in preparing class displays and bulletin boards.
  • Maintains high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students.
  • Participates in professional development activities
  • Maintains hygiene in the classroom and ensures instructional materials and equipment are maintained in accordance with accepted practice.
  • Other duties may be assigned as related to specific areas of disability.

Education & Experience:
  • Minimum of two years post-secondary earned credit (48 hours) or associates degree or passing scores on WorkKeys Level 3 assessment.

Language Skills:
  • Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
  • Ability to write simple correspondence.
  • Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations.

Mathematical Skills:
  • Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole number, common fractions, and decimals.

Reasoning ability:
  • Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
  • Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands:
  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk.
  • The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
  • The employee is occasionally required to sit.
  • The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.


Created: 2024-09-08
Reference: 140093
Country: United States
State: Alabama
City: Ozark

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