ED PARA,PRE-K,C

Salaries & Schedule

Salary and schedule details are provided directly by the employer.

About the Role

The purpose of the position is to provide staff support in an educational or childcare environment, performing paraprofessional work in assisting teachers and pre-kindergarten age students. Employees in this classification work with children individually or in small groups by providing basic instruction in abilities and skills developmentally appropriate to pre-school age children. Position is responsible for assisting teachers with transporting children to various scheduled activities, i.e., lunch, rest time, restrooms.

Essential Functions

• Responds to internal and external customers in a timely, accurate, courteous, and empathetic manner representing OCPS in a positive light.
• Maintains activities and behavior of pre-kindergarten age children during and in the absence of classroom teachers to ensure their physical and environmentally safe keeping, as well as adherence to appropriate conduct and disciplinary controls.
• Assists teachers in the supervision of learning activities, circulating within the classroom, and providing assistance and learning support to children.
• Provides instruction to children as prescribed by the supervising teacher and reinforces skills introduced by the teacher; may utilize games, stories, or other constructive activities to enhance learning skills.
• Assists teachers in checking and objectively evaluating progress; teaches children individually and in small groups reinforcing skills based upon instructional guidelines.
• Assists in the preparation of lesson plans and teachers' pre-planning sessions; provides input and assistance in the development of classroom activities and learning tools.
• Aids in the diagnosing and appraising teachers of potential learning or communication deficiencies; monitors children’s progressive learning skills; documents record of learning activities and diagnosis.
• Prepares or assists in the preparation of instructional materials; performs support tasks such as copying materials, laminating items, typing correspondence, and filing paperwork and documentation.
• Coordinates with media center staff for classroom learning resources; sets up equipment in classroom for teacher's instructional studies.
• Assists in preparing classroom bulletin boards, classroom decorations, displays of children’s activities, and other classroom objectives.
• Maintains attendance records and assigns student seating; learns assigned bus route(s).
• Maintains accurate and complete records of a variety of data which may require the use of a computer terminal to enter scores and other children’s data.
• May be assigned monitoring duties, i.e., hallways, lunchroom, restrooms, and bus duty; ensures appropriate student conduct during these periods.
• May be assigned to various labs providing assistance to teachers and instruction/information to students.
• Responsible for keeping up to date on current technology, as job appropriate, being used by OCPS. With the support of the district, attends training to ensure skill level in various technologies is at the level required to perform in current position.
• Responsible for timely and accurate information they maintain as part of their job responsibilities.

Performance APTITUDES

• Data Utilization
• Human Interaction
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization
• Verbal Aptitude
• Mathematical Aptitude
• Functional Reasoning
• Situational Reasoning

Physical Abilities

• Very moderate physical effort in light work, typically involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling, and which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (12-20 pounds).

Environmental Factors

• Most tasks require visual perception and discrimination.
• Some tasks require oral communications ability.
• Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate sounds.
• Tasks are regularly performed without exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, animals/wildlife, toxic/poisonous agents, violence, disease, or pathogenic substances.