HMS Instructional Paraprofessional SY

About the role

Assist the teacher in creating a positive learning environment to facilitate the personal, social, and intellectual development of students.

Responsibilities

• Provide instructional and support assistance to teachers.
• Instruct small groups of students.
• Tutor students individually.
• Affirm classroom management.
• Work with assigned children with disabilities.
• Support intensive level multiple disability students during the school day as assigned.
• Aid designated students with physical tasks and personal hygiene, including feeding and toileting.
• Conduct activities to encourage parent involvement.
• Offer instructional support in the library, media center, and computer lab as needed.
• Communicate effectively with students, staff, agencies, and community members.
• Support students with remedial work, provide tutoring, and monitor their progress.
• Prepare instructional materials and supplies for classroom use.
• Aid students in various areas such as the lunchroom, library, gym, pool, and locker rooms.
• Supervise students on morning and afternoon buses, in the gym, hallways, and other assigned locations.
• Report accidents, assaults, property damage, and abusive behavior immediately.
• Operate all classroom and office equipment.
• Follow all District policies and regulations.
• Support the educational values, philosophy, and mission of the District.
• Perform other duties and assume additional responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor.

Qualifications

• A high school diploma or equivalent general education degree is required.
• Must meet one of the following three criteria:
  • Earned an Associate's Degree or higher from a regionally accredited institution of higher education;
  • Completed a minimum of two years, equivalent to 48 semester hours, of study at a regionally accredited institution of higher education;
  • Successfully passed the Paraprofessional Assessment Test (PAT).
• Note: If the degree was earned from a foreign university, the applicant must obtain a foreign transcript evaluation. Please contact the Human Resources Department for further details.
• Preference: Inupiaq-speaking and cultural experience preferred.

Mathematical Skills and Abilities

• Perform basic arithmetic operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
• Apply these operations to units involving U.S. currency, weight, volume, and distance measurements.
• Reason these operations to units involving U.S. currency, weight, volume, and distance measurements.

Other Skills and Abilities

• May require six hours of annual special education training.
• Ability to present a lesson.
• Experience working with office machines.
• Capable of lifting and/or moving up to 40 pounds.

Physical Requirements

• Regularly sit, stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands and arms.
• Frequently stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Communicate verbally and listen.
• Occasionally climb or balance.

Environmental Conditions

• The noise level in the work environment is generally moderate.

Benefits

• Work Year: School-Year
• Range and Minimum Salary: Grade 13 - Not Highly Qualified (Not H.Q.) $22.24 - $34.37 (Based on Experience)
• Grade 14 - Highly Qualified (H.Q.)$23.88 - $36.79 (Based on Experience)