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Early Childhood Severe Needs Para Educator - Eastridge Community Elementary School

Cherry Creek School District · Aurora, CO · 2 wk ago
TrainingFull-time

Job Summary

The Severe Needs Para Educator assists students with severe special education needs under the guidance of licensed special education staff. Duties include helping individuals or small groups of students with curriculum, implementing programming, generalizing learned skills, and implementing behavior strategies. Technical physical care may also be provided.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Aid students with classroom activities, adapting the curriculum to individual student needs. Implement student accommodations, supports, modifications, procedures, and programming outlined in the IEP. Record student progress and behavior.

  • Prepare materials, administer tests, attend to attendance, and assist with paperwork and documentation. Assist with classroom events like fire drills.

  • Perform other duties as assigned or requested.

Integrated Learning Center (ILC) and Homebound (FAPE) Program Assignment

  • Monitor students and reinforce appropriate behavior. Assist in verbal de-escalation and non-violent crisis interventions. Assist in social interactions or communication.

  • Provide technical physical care for students with special needs, including toileting, grooming, cleaning ventilation devices, feeding, care of G-tubes, positioning, and improving range of motion.

Serious Emotional Disability (SED) Assignment

  • Monitor students and reinforce appropriate behavior. Assist in verbal de-escalation and non-violent crisis interventions. Assist in social interactions or communication.

Online/Remote Environment

  • Assist small groups of students or individuals with online classroom activities, including curriculum accommodations or modifications. Support students in completing assigned work.

  • Maintain records of student progress and behavior. Support students in troubleshooting technology issues.

  • Perform other duties as assigned or requested.

Reporting Relationships

This job has no direct supervisory responsibilities.

Minimum Qualifications

  • No professional work experience required.

  • Title I assignments must meet one of the following requirements:

    • Completed at least two years of study at an institution of higher education;
    • Obtained an associate’s or higher degree;
    • Met a rigorous standard of quality, and can demonstrate through a formal state or local academic assessment, knowledge of and the ability to assist in instructing, as appropriate:
      • Reading/language arts, writing, and mathematics;
      • Reading readiness, writing readiness, and mathematics readiness.

  • Mandatory biennial Crisis Prevention Intervention training provided by the District for staff working in an Autism, Behaviorally Disordered, or ILC assignment.

  • CPR and First Aid certification.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience working in the public sector, specifically public education.

  • Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

  • Racially conscious and culturally competent with the skill, will, capacity, and knowledge to commit to a culture of continuous improvement.

  • Associate’s degree.

  • Work with special needs children in a paid program or licensed special education teaching experience.

  • Experience working with students with autism, behavior challenges, medically fragile conditions, hearing or vision loss, or intellectual disabilities.

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