Bilingual Instructional Paraprofessional

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Perform a variety of basic duties to assist the teacher such as but not limited to: typing, filing, duplicating, taking inventory, data entry, administering tests, ordering supplies, placing phone calls, and materials distribution.
• Aid teachers in team teaching, team planning, as well as daily and emergency routines.
• Monitor and reinforce appropriate student behavior during various activities such as play, lunch, detention, in-school-suspension, or in the classroom as required.
• Assist in preparing of crafts, art, and sensory materials for children.
• Work cooperatively with parents and other classroom volunteers.
• Accompany teacher on home visits and assist in establishing support with families as needed.
• Participate on program planning committees, and parent involvement activities.
• Plan individual and group activities to stimulate growth in language, social, and motor skills such as learning to listen to instructions, playing with others, and using play equipment.
• Instruct children in practice of room cleanup and personal cleanliness with a goal of developing habits of caring for own self.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Required 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.
• Knowledge of the Project Construction Curriculum.
• Skills in working with children and their parents.
• Desire to work with elementary grade children.

Preferred Qualifications

• Three (3) years successful experience working with elementary school children and their parents.
• Course work in childhood education.

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 of at least ten pounds.
• Job requires the employee occasionally to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• Visual ability requires mono and color vision, close vision, distance vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Terms Of Employment

• Length of work year: 7 hours per day; 5 days/week; 212 days
• Benefits: Health and Dental Insurance are provided. KCPS Defined Benefit Pension plan – mandatory 9% contribution is required from employee and matched by KCPS; Voluntary retirement savings plans are also available.