Paraeducator - Elementary, 6.0 hrs/day (.75 FTE) Part Time, Perm
North Clackamas Schools · Portland, OR · Yesterday
EducationPart-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections where there is real specific content.
We need to parse the posting.
Job title: Paraeducator - Elementary - 6.0 hrs/day (.75 FTE), Part Time, Permanent
We should not repeat job title as heading.
We need to extract:
- About the role: maybe a summary paragraph: "Position Summary The incumbent performs a variety of instructional and classroom support and student supervision duties to assist the school and teachers in instruction, supervision, and education of students."
Also maybe initial statement about interviews? That's not about role.
- Responsibilities: list of duties: "MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (depending On Specific Assignment)" bullet list.
- Requirements: Minimum Qualifications list.
- Qualifications: Desired Qualifications list.
- Skills: maybe combine abilities? Could be part of Minimum Qualifications includes abilities. But we can create Skills section from abilities listed: "Able to work in an environment with frequent interruptions...", etc. However those are part of Minimum Qualifications. Might be better to keep them under Requirements or Skills. The instruction: Use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide what content goes where.
We have compensation info: "Initial wage placement according to NCSD/OSEA Collective Bargaining Agreement. CLASSIFIED WAGE SCHEDULE 2026-2027 JOB GROUP Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 D22.8824.0225.2426.5027.8429.2330.6932.22". That's pay details. So we can create Pay section with that schedule.
Benefits: "Retirement Plan Contributions North Clackamas School District participates in the Oregon Public Employee Retirement System (PERS and OPSRP) on behalf of its employees. The district contributes the employer portion; there is also a mandatory employee portion. Upon eligibility, which is defined as working at least six full calendar months in a qualifying position, the employee is required to contribute 6% as their employee portion, via payroll deduction. Part-time employees working at least six months and 600 hours in a calendar year will qualify." That's benefits.
Schedule: "SCHEDULE: 7:40 a.m. - 2:10 p.m.; Subject to change depending on department needs. WORK CALENDAR: 180 days". So schedule section.
Now we need to avoid boilerplate: remove EEO, equal opportunity, scam warning, application instructions, etc. Also remove "Please Refer To The Job Descriptions For Detailed Information." and "Applicant agrees to assume cost and arrange for FINGERPRINT-BASED CRIMINAL RECORDS CHECK upon offer of employment." Also remove contact info for Title IX etc. Also remove "Equal Opportunity Employer/Drug Free Workplace." etc.
We must preserve all substantive information.
Now craft HTML.
We'll have:
. Let's extract bullet points:
- Works collaboratively by assisting teachers in assessment, supporting curriculum, student interactions, enforcing and teaching safe behaviors, and enhancing social growth of students in the school setting.
- Implements behavior support and intervention plans as directed by a teacher.
- Documents behavior of students to assist teachers in assessing progress with education plans.
- Maintain or assist in maintaining student weekly progress reports.
- Provide limited first aid when necessary. Assess injury to determine whether nursing care is needed. Maintain knowledge of students that may have medical concerns to remain aware of potentially dangerous situations for their individual condition.
- When communicating with students, parents, community members and other staff members exercises discretion and assures protection of student confidentiality consistent with the direction and guidance of staff, administrators, and school/district policies and procedures.
- Utilize training provided to manage student behavior to ensure student safety. Takes steps to intervene when students are not in control, not in the proper location, or may be in dangerous or unsafe situations.
- May take action, or assist in taking action, to de-escalate students who are at risk of harming themselves or others by following school/district-approved procedures.
- Provides instructional support and tutoring to students in large groups, small groups, and one-on-one situations.
- Oversees student safety during activities such as recess and playground supervision, bus duty, crossing guard duty, hallway supervision, etc. Take steps to intervene when students are not in control or maybe in dangerous or unsafe situations.
- May provide toileting, feeding, mobility and personal hygiene-related duties for students requiring such help.
- Perform clerical duties such as making copies, operating office equipment, answering telephones, ordering materials, and record keeping.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
We need to ensure each is a separate . Some sentences have multiple sentences; we can keep them together.
Now Requirements: Minimum Qualifications list.
Extract each bullet:
- Successful experience in working with culturally diverse families and communities, or have otherwise demonstrated a commitment to strengthening engagement of a diverse community and skill in communicating with a diverse population.
- Successful completion of an Associate's Degree or two years of post-high school education in appropriate and related areas of study.
- The education requirement may be substituted as the sole discretion of the District by successfully passing the written Educational Testing Service competency examination.
- May be required to be certified or to become certified in first aid, CPR, and/or operation of defibrillators.
- Able to work in an environment with frequent interruptions and changing tasks and priorities.
- Able to assist, console, and manage students who may be emotional, distraught, or frustrated.
- Able to remain calm, focused and in control when working with students, parents, guardians, and community members who may be difficult and challenging to engage.
- Able to follow written and verbal direction and take the initiative to seek clarity and take action when needed.
- Be or become knowledgeable and supportive of classroom management and student discipline procedures.
- Proficiency in the proper use of the English language to include enunciation, spelling, and syntax to assist and model proper language usage by students.
- Able to organize work and set priorities for accomplishing work in a timely and effective manner.
- Able to protect the confidentiality of student information consistent with FERPA requirements and good judgment.
- Able to work collaboratively and effectively with staff, students, parents, volunteers, and community members.
- Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
- Skill in the use of office and computer equipment and use standard office software and student information system software.
Now Qualifications: Desired Qualifications list.
- Bachelor Degree in an appropriate and related field of study.
- Two years of experience that demonstrates the ability to work successfully with children in a learning environment.
- Bilingual and bicultural skills in such common languages to the District as Spanish, Korean, Russian and Vietnamese (to be determined by the specific position).
Now Skills: Could we extract abilities not already covered? Many abilities are in Minimum Qualifications. But we could still create a Skills section summarizing key skills: maybe "Ability to assist, console, manage students; ability to remain calm; proficiency in English; organizational skills; confidentiality; collaboration; communication; office software proficiency." However we must not invent or summarize away detail; we should preserve all substantive information. If we create Skills section, we need to ensure we are not duplicating content? The instruction didn't forbid duplication but we should avoid redundancy? It didn't say not to duplicate, but better to avoid. However we could place the abilities under Skills and keep Minimum Qualifications as just education/experience/certifications. But the Minimum Qualifications list includes many abilities; moving them to Skills would remove them from Requirements, losing content. We could keep them in Requirements and also have Skills with same content? That would be duplication but still preserving all info. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Duplication is not summarizing away detail, it's preserving. It's allowed but maybe not ideal. However they said "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we should avoid many thin sections. Having Skills duplicate may be thin. Better to incorporate abilities into Requirements (or Qualifications) and not create a separate Skills section unless there is distinct skill content not already captured.
We have some skill-like items: "Skill in the use of office and computer equipment and use standard office software and student information system software." That's a skill. Also "Proficiency in the proper use of the English language". That's also skill. Could be under Skills.
But we already have those in Minimum Qualifications. If we move them to Skills, we need to keep them somewhere else? We could keep them in Skills and remove from Requirements to avoid duplication, but then we lose the Minimum Qualifications content about abilities. However Minimum Qualifications also includes education/experience etc. We could keep those in Requirements and move abilities to Skills. That would preserve all info, split between two sections. That seems acceptable.
Let's decide:
Requirements (Minimum Qualifications) will contain:
- Successful experience in working with culturally diverse families and communities, or have otherwise demonstrated a commitment to strengthening engagement of a diverse community and skill in communicating with a diverse population.
- Successful completion of an Associate's Degree or two years of post-high school education in appropriate and related areas of study.
- The education requirement may be substituted as the sole discretion of the District by successfully passing the written Educational Testing Service competency examination.
- May be required to be certified or to become certified in first aid, CPR, and/or operation of defibrillators.
(These are the non-ability qualifications.)
Skills section will contain the abilities:
- Able to work in an environment with frequent interruptions and changing tasks and priorities.
- Able to assist, console, and manage students who may be emotional, distraught, or frustrated.
- Able to remain calm, focused and in control when working with students, parents, guardians, and community members who may be difficult and challenging to engage.
- Able to follow written and verbal direction and take the initiative to seek clarity and take action when needed.
- Be or become knowledgeable and supportive of classroom management and student discipline procedures.
- Proficiency in the proper use of the English language to include enunciation, spelling, and syntax to assist and model proper language usage by students.
- Able to organize work and set priorities for accomplishing work in a timely and effective manner.
- Able to protect the confidentiality of student information consistent with FERPA requirements and good judgment.
- Able to work collaboratively and effectively with staff, students, parents, volunteers, and community members.
- Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
- Skill in the use of office and computer equipment and use standard office software and student information system software.
Now Benefits section: as described.
Pay section: wage schedule.
Schedule section: schedule and work calendar.
Now About the role: we have position summary. Also maybe we could include the note about first round interviews? Might be considered part of process but not role. I'd omit.
Now ensure we don't include boilerplate: remove EEO, etc.
Now produce HTML.
We need to wrap each section with
About the role
Position Summary The incumbent performs a variety of instructional and classroom support and student supervision duties to assist the school and teachers in instruction, supervision, and education of students.
Maybe also include the note about first round interviews? That's not about role but maybe could be included under About the role? It's about process. Probably better to omit as it's application instruction? It's not exactly instruction but it's about interview process. The instruction says remove application instructions. This is about interview process, maybe still considered application instruction. Safer to omit. Now Responsibilities: list from MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. We need to convert each sentence intoheading and then
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