26/27 Elementary Special Education Paraprofessional

What You'll Be Doing:

• Work with teachers in team teaching, team planning, and daily routines.
• Provide group instruction to assigned children.
• Understand, support, and assist in implementing and communicating the curriculum with the children and their parents.
• Aid in preparing and setting up daily materials.
• Cooperate with parents and other classroom/school volunteers and staff.
• Participate on program planning committees and parent involvement activities.
• Attend orientation and professional development sessions and serve as a group leader when needed.
• Implement individual and group activities to stimulate growth as outlined in the IEP.
• Instruct children in practice of daily living skills as appropriate.
• Remain with student for support during all times outside of the Special Education classroom as assigned.
• Provide short-term classroom coverage when teacher must leave the room but remains within the building.
• Provide personal care for student (i.e., diaper changing, toileting, feeding) as appropriate.
• Lift and transfer students as needed.
• Implement the use of technology to enhance student achievement.
• Use ASL skills required for DHH assignments.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Individuals who wish to become an instructional paraprofessional must meet one of the following qualifications:
• Sixty (60) college credit hours.
• Associate's degree or higher.
• Missouri ParaPro Assessment passing score (before September 23, 2013).
• Missouri Paraprofessional Assessment passing score (September 23, 2013 and after).
• Completed Missouri's 20-hour online substitute training program.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Three (3) years successful experience working with children and their parents.
• Course work in childhood education.
• Missouri state substitute teacher certification.

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• This job requires that the employee be able to: sit, stand, walk, speak, hear, use hands, fingers, reach with hands and fingers; bend, stoop, lift objects/children of at least forty pounds; use stairs; move quickly from one space to another; spend extended time outdoors in a variety of weather conditions; visual ability requires mono and color vision.