Paraeducator

Job Summary

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Implement specific student goals and objectives in communication, hygiene, and behavior.
• Follow specific behavior and medical plans.
• Communicate effectively in the classroom, in writing, and in person with students, staff, and parents.
• Perform necessary physical tasks as needed by each student, such as pushing a wheelchair, transferring a student, assisting in toileting, changing diapers, and handling personal hygiene needs or invasive procedures.
• Make quick, accurate, and reasonable decisions regarding the instructional, behavioral, and/or medical plans of students.

Qualifications

• Ability to work with a variety of staff including teachers.
• Trained in, or willing to be trained (and demonstrate competency) in non-violent crisis intervention, physical management.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to communicate clearly and rationally to students, staff, and parents.
• Ability to modify students' lessons according to their individual plans.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
• Ability to use calculators.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed written or oral instructions and articulate these to students.
• Ability to articulate thoughts and language processes concisely and professionally.
• Ability to make quick, reasonable decisions, especially concerning a student's well-being and safety.
• Ability to handle problems involving variables in different types of situations, including volatile situations.
• Ability to effectively modify classroom assignments with appropriate instructional methods.
• Ability to assist students in mediating relationship problems between students as needed.
• Ability to operate personal computer and calculator.