Paraeducator
for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, no invention, no summarizing away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. The posting includes many details: Hours per week: up to 29 hours, Job Title Paraeducator, Department School, Supervisor Principal, Salary Schedule Paraeducator (88), Lane Placement A, Contract Length Hourly Only, FLSA Classification Non-exempt, Last Review Date October 2020, etc. Some of these are metadata; we can fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. We need to decide what to keep. We need sections: maybe About the role (job summary), Responsibilities (essential functions), Requirements (required education and qualifications, required prior experience, etc.), Qualifications (maybe same as requirements? but we can combine). Skills (required knowledge and skills). Benefits, Pay, Schedule only if posting actually states them. The posting does not mention benefits explicitly. Pay: Salary Schedule Paraeducator (88) Lane Placement A. That's a pay schedule; we could include Pay section with that info. Schedule: Hours per week: up to 29 hours. That's schedule info. So we can include Schedule section. We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual data. We must not repeat job title as heading. So we will not have heading "Paraeducator". We'll have headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Pay, Schedule. Possibly Benefits omitted because not present. We need to preserve all substantive information. Let's extract: Job Summary: Under the direction of the principal and teacher(s), the paraeducator assists teachers in a variety of capacities in the instruction and supervision of students. Attendance, physical presence, and timeliness are required and are essential functions of this position. Essential Functions list: - Assists in the preparation of instruction materials. - Assists in the instruction of students and other classroom activities as needed. - May tutor students individually or in small groups. - Assist in the administration of a variety of tests and monitors students' academic progress. - Keeps accurate data on assigned students or group of students. - Supports a school environment that helps students develop and maintain a positive self-concept. - Maintains professional confidentiality regarding student information. - Maintains effective and positive communication with students, teachers, parents, patrons and administration. - Work collaboratively in a team environment. - Must be able to work assigned hours. Non-Essential Functions: Other duties as assigned (maybe we can ignore as boilerplate? It's not essential but still substantive? It's a line; we could include under Responsibilities maybe as a bullet? But it's generic; maybe we can drop as it's not specific. The instruction says remove duplicated lines, but not necessarily to drop generic "Other duties as assigned". It's not boilerplate but it's generic. Might keep but it's not adding much. I'd include it under Responsibilities as a bullet. Required Education And Qualifications: - High school diploma or equivalent - If working in a Title 1 school, one of the following: 48 hours of college credit; or pass the ParaPro exam. Required Prior Experience: None Required Knowledge And Skills: - Basic reading, writing, and math skills. - Effective written and oral communication - Ability to follow directions given. - Ability to interact positively with students. - Ability to assist students in a variety of situations as they arise. Assigned Decision Making: (maybe part of Requirements? It's about decision making). Could be included under Requirements or Qualifications. We'll treat as part of Requirements. Interactions With Others: Positive interaction with students, teachers, social workers, psychologists, support personnel and administrators. (Could be under Skills or Responsibilities.) Supervisory Responsibility: Supervision of students being supported. Supervision of a student in a service location outside the classroom as needed. Budget Responsibility: NA (we can drop as not specific; it's NA). Working Environment: Work setting is mainly in the classroom. May be asked to work inside and outside the building to accomplish assigned tasks. Working conditions can be in hot and cold weather. May experience stress from disruptive students and/or groups of students. Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to speak and/or hear. Frequently required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, and crouch. Occasionally required to use hands to handle or feel and must occasionally climb or balance. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception. Must be able to stand/sit for long periods of time. Must be able to lift, and or move up to 20lbs. Note: The list of essential and marginal functions and of physical requirements is not exhaustive and may be supplemented in accordance with the requirements of the job. We also have metadata: Hours per week: up to 29 hours. Job Title Paraeducator (we won't repeat). Department School. Supervisor Principal. Salary Schedule Paraeducator (88) Lane Placement A. Contract Length Hourly Only. FLSA Classification Non-exempt. Last Review Date October 2020. Also note about closing time and contact info: "Please note that this posting closes at 3:00 pm on the date listed above. If you have questions regarding this position, please contact Matt Schelble, Principal, at (385)-646-3205 or email mschelble@graniteschools.org". This is contact info and closing time; we should remove application instructions and contact? The instruction says remove application instructions. Contact info is likely considered application instruction; we should drop it. Also closing time is metadata; we could fold into a short p maybe under About the role? But it's not substantive about the role; it's administrative. Probably drop. We need to preserve ALL substantive information; contact info is not substantive about the job; it's application instruction. So drop. Now we need to decide sections. About the role: Could include job summary and maybe general description: Under the direction of the principal and teacher(s), the paraeducator assists teachers in a variety of capacities in the instruction and supervision of students. Attendance, physical presence, and timeliness are required and are essential functions of this position. Responsibilities: Essential Functions list (including non-essential maybe). Also maybe Supervisory Responsibility, Working Environment, Physical Requirements? Those could be under Responsibilities or separate sections like Requirements? Usually Responsibilities include duties; Working Environment and Physical Requirements could be under Requirements or Qualifications? But we have limited sections; we can put them under Responsibilities as they describe what the job entails. However the instruction says use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can have multiple lists.
We need to avoid creating sections with filler. We'll have sections: About the role (p), Responsibilities (ul), Requirements (ul maybe split into education/qualifications and experience?), Skills (ul), Pay (p), Schedule (p). Qualifications maybe combine with Requirements? But we have both headings; we could have Requirements for education/experience, Qualifications for knowledge/skills? Actually the list of headings includes both Requirements and Qualifications. We need to decide what to put where. The posting has "Required Education And Qualifications", "Required Prior Experience", "Required Knowledge And Skills", "Assigned Decision Making", "Interactions With Others", "Supervisory Responsibility", "Budget Responsibility", "Working Environment", "Physical Requirements". So we could map:
- Requirements: Required Education And Qualifications, Required Prior Experience, Assigned Decision Making (maybe), Supervisory Responsibility? Actually supervisory responsibility is more about duties. But we could put under Requirements.
- Qualifications: Required Knowledge And Skills, Interactions With Others (maybe), Physical Requirements? Hmm.
But we need to avoid thin sections. Perhaps better to combine: About the role (summary), Responsibilities (essential functions + supervisory responsibility + working environment), Requirements (education, experience, decision making), Skills (knowledge/skills, interactions), Pay, Schedule.
We must not invent sections; we can omit Qualifications if we don't have specific content beyond what we already covered. But we have Required Knowledge And Skills which is skills; we could put under Skills. Interactions With Others could be under Skills as well (ability to interact). Physical Requirements could be under Responsibilities? Might be better to have a separate section for Physical Requirements but we don't have a heading for that; we only have the predefined headings. Could we create a custom heading? The instruction says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It implies we should use those headings only; not create others. So we must fit content into those headings. Thus we need to map all substantive info into those headings. Let's list headings and possible content: - About the role: job summary, maybe general description. - Responsibilities: essential functions, supervisory responsibility, working environment (maybe), physical requirements? Physical requirements are not responsibilities but could be considered part of job demands; but we could put under Responsibilities as they are job demands. - Requirements: required education and qualifications, required prior experience, assigned decision making (maybe), budget responsibility (NA - we can drop), maybe also FLSA classification? That's metadata; we could drop. - Qualifications: required knowledge and skills, interactions with others. - Skills: maybe we could put required knowledge and skills here; but we already used Qualifications for that. Actually we could swap: Qualifications for knowledge/skills, Skills for something else? But we have both; we need to decide. Given the posting, we have "Required Knowledge And Skills" which is clearly skills. So we can put that under Skills. Then Qualifications could be for education/experience? But we already have Requirements for education/experience. Hmm. We could treat Requirements as education/experience, Qualifications as knowledge/skills/interactions, Skills as maybe something else like "Ability to assist students in a variety of situations" but that's already knowledge/skills. Might be redundant. Better to follow typical job posting structure: About the role (summary), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements (education/experience), Qualifications (knowledge/skills/abilities), Skills (maybe specific technical skills), Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Thus: - About the role: job summary paragraph. - Responsibilities: essential functions list (including supervisory responsibility, working environment maybe). We'll include essential functions as list. - Requirements: Required Education And Qualifications (high school diploma or equivalent, Title 1 condition), Required Prior Experience (None), Assigned Decision Making (makes decisions concerning best way to accomplish tasks, takes directions well, makes suggestions but must follow directions). Also maybe Budget Responsibility NA (drop). Also maybe FLSA classification? Not needed. - Qualifications: Required Knowledge And Skills (basic reading, writing, math; effective written/oral communication; ability to follow directions; ability to interact positively with students; ability to assist students in various situations). Interactions With Others (positive interaction with students, teachers, social workers, psychologists, support personnel and administrators). Could also include Physical Requirements? Might be better under Qualifications? But physical requirements are not qualifications per se; they are demands. Could put under Responsibilities as well. - Skills: maybe we could put something like "Ability to work assigned hours" (from essential functions) or "Ability to stand/sit for long periods, lift up to 20lbs". But those are physical requirements. Could put under Skills. But we need to avoid duplication. Let's think: we have many details; we need to preserve all substantive info. So we need to ensure each piece appears somewhere. Let's list all substantive info bullets: 1. Job Summary: Under the direction of the principal and teacher(s), the paraeducator assists teachers in a variety of capacities in