Paraeducator - Non-Mainstream Special Education ILC

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for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We must preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate etc. We need to parse the posting. Key info: - Position Hours And Pay: "This position is for 6.5 hours per day at 178 days per year. 7 hours per day for 4 days for the first year and 2 days each year following until certification is completed. Position pay: PSE Salary Schedule Level 5 - $ 25.40" Thus we have schedule (hours per day, days per year) and pay. - Important Information: Official Hire Date, Required Training (Right Response Training within 3-5 months, must complete FCS and General Paraeducator Certificate, etc). Also mention Paraeducator Certificate Program dependent on State funding. - Federal minimum employment requirements: Must be 18, high school diploma or equivalent, and one of list: passed ParaPathways Assessment, Pearson Paraprofessional assessment, AA degree or higher, 72 quarter credits or 48 semester credits, completion of registered apprenticeship program offered by WA Dept of Labor & Industries, successful completion of The Master Teacher Inc. Paraeducator Online Training Program. Also mention providing unofficial transcripts, need official upon hire. - Description: responsibilities to assist certificated staff with instructional and non-instructional activities for non-mainstreamed special education students, generally in a self-contained classroom, and including instructing students individually or in small groups, assisting students with basic life skills, and supervising student behavior activities. - Job Summary ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Duties: long list of duties. - Reporting relationships: Reports to school principal or assigned administrator; receives guidance from certificated staff. - Mental Demands, Physical Demands. - Minimum Qualifications Education and Experience: Education, training, skills, and experience necessary to carry out the assignment, with experience working with school age children and special needs students preferred. For Title One and Title One School-wide Special Education positions there is an associate degree, or proof of completion of the Washington State Paraeducator Assessment, or two years of higher education requirement per the Federal "No Child Left Behind" Act. Allowable Substitutions Not applicable. - Required Knowledge, Skills And Abilities: list. - Licenses/Special Requirements: fingerprinting and background check, infection control plan training, may need first aid/CPR, Hepatitis-B immunization offered, must complete Right Response Training within first 3-5 months. - PSE UNIT AFFILIATION: Paraeducator/Special Services - Wages And Benefits: "Click here to access details on the following: Salaries/Wages Insurance Retirement Plans Paid Time Off or Vacation Paid Holidays Other Compensation" Thus we have benefits info but not specifics; just a link. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Also "IMPORTANT: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." We have specific schedule and pay details, so we can include Pay and Schedule sections. Benefits: they mention a link to details but no specifics given; maybe we should not create a Benefits section because no specific benefit details are provided (just a link). The rule says never create Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It does state "Wages And Benefits Click here to access details on the following: Salaries/Wages Insurance Retirement Plans Paid Time Off or Vacation Paid Holidays Other Compensation". That is a statement that benefits exist and a link to details. Is that considered specific content? It mentions categories but not details. Might be considered not specific enough. Safer to omit Benefits section. We need sections: About the role? Could use a brief description paragraph. The posting includes a Description paragraph: "This position's responsibilities are to assist certificated staff with instructional and non-instructional activities for non-mainstreamed special education students, generally in a self-contained classroom, and including instructing students individually or in small groups, assisting students with basic life skills, and supervising student behavior activities." That's about the role. Could be under

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. Responsibilities: The Job Summary ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Duties list is extensive; we can put that under Responsibilities as a

• each duty. Requirements: Could combine federal minimum employment requirements and maybe Minimum Qualifications Education and Experience? The rule: Use headings for Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which sections to include. We have: - Pay: specific pay rate. - Schedule: specific hours/days. - Responsibilities: duties list. - Requirements: federal minimum employment requirements (age, diploma, one of list). Also maybe Minimum Qualifications Education and Experience (experience preferred, Title One etc). Could be under Requirements. - Qualifications: maybe the Required Knowledge, Skills And Abilities list? Or Licenses/Special Requirements? Actually "Qualifications" could cover education/experience, knowledge/skills, licenses. But we already have Requirements and Skills sections. The instruction says use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have multiple. We need to avoid thin sections. Let's think: - About the role: short description. - Responsibilities: the big list of duties. - Requirements: federal minimum employment requirements (age, diploma, one of list) plus maybe Minimum Qualifications Education and Experience (experience preferred, Title One etc). Could be combined. - Qualifications: maybe the Required Knowledge, Skills And Abilities list (knowledge of basic subject areas, ability to deal with students, etc). Also Licenses/Special Requirements (fingerprinting, background check, infection control, first aid/CPR, Hepatitis-B, Right Response training). Could be under Qualifications. - Skills: maybe we could split knowledge/skills into Skills section, but we already have Qualifications. Might be redundant. Better to follow the headings list: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which to actually include based on content. We have content for: - About the role: yes. - Responsibilities: yes (duties). - Requirements: yes (federal minimum employment requirements, plus education/experience preferences). - Qualifications: maybe the Required Knowledge, Skills And Abilities list (knowledge, abilities). Could be considered Qualifications. - Skills: maybe we could separate specific skills like ability to learn use of computers, ability to operate office machines, ability to establish relationships, ability to diffuse situations, etc. But those are already in Required Knowledge, Skills And Abilities. Could put them under Skills. - Benefits: we have only a link; maybe we skip. - Pay: yes. - Schedule: yes. Thus we could have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Pay, Schedule. We need to ensure we don't create thin sections. Each should have substantive content. Let's extract content precisely. **About the role**: The description paragraph: "This position's responsibilities are to assist certificated staff with instructional and non-instructional activities for non-mainstreamed special education students, generally in a self-contained classroom, and including instructing students individually or in small groups, assisting students with basic life skills, and supervising student behavior activities." We could also include the Job Summary? But that's essentially responsibilities. We'll keep About the role as that paragraph. **Responsibilities**: The list under "Job Summary ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Duties Depending upon individual assignment, the Paraeducator - Non-Mainstream Special Education may perform all or a combination of several of the following duties:" then bullet list. We need to capture each duty as
• . The list includes many sentences; we need to preserve all substantive information. We'll copy each duty as a list item. Let's extract them: 1. Instructs moderately to severely handicapped students individually or in small groups in a variety of learning activities to promote student understanding of materials presented. 2. Provides encouragement, reinforcement and achievement of educational objectives and goals defined by certificated staff. 3. Assists in the administration of objective tests or other measurements. 4. Communicates with certificated staff concerning individual student progress; adjusts methods to meet the needs of a wide variety of students; consults with certificated staff concerning remediation or enrichment activities. 5. Assists certificated staff in maintaining records, logs, charts, assignments and other records for assessment of student progress. 6. Attends to student physical and safety needs; monitors students for medical risks such as seizures and behaviors that may result in harm to themselves or others. 7. Corrects behaviors and maintains discipline according to established policies and procedures. 8. Assists students with toileting, which may include catheterization and diapering; attends to the personal hygiene needs of students. 9. Assists students in washing hands and face, brushing teeth and hair, and taking showers. 10. Assists students with interpersonal and personal skills mastery; helps feed students and teaches social aspects of eating with others. 11. Assists students with basic living skills and pre-vocational activities. 12. Works with students to develop communication skills; facilitates integration of students with age-group peers to the extent possible. 13. Establishes and maintains effective communication with students, staff and parents for student progress and safety, and community relations. 14. Provides physical assistance to students, such as lifting or positioning. 15. Uses adaptive equipment to communicate with students; follows and documents procedures established by physical therapist. 16. Monitors need for first aid for students and refers for treatment as appropriate. 17. Maintains cleanliness and hygiene of classroom, implements and equipment. Washes dishes; cleans and disinfects tables and counters; washes and dries clothes, towels, washcloths and bibs. 18. Other Functions Alerts qualified district staff to student problems. Locates, prepares and/or modifies materials for student use, enrichment activities and special projects under the direction of certificated staff. Prepares, duplicates, collates and distributes materials; operates a variety of office equipment. Maintains physical appearance of classroom and other assigned areas; maintains, assembles and stores therapeutic and other equipment as assigned; maintains supplies as assigned. May serve on various district committees and/or departmental work teams. Models appropriate and cooperative behavior, including protecting confidential information, consistent with district ethical guidelines. Performs related duties consistent with the scope and intent of the position. Note: The "Other Functions" paragraph seems to be a continuation; we should split into separate list items? It's a paragraph with multiple sentences. Could treat as one list item but it's long. Better to split into logical items: maybe each sentence becomes a list item. However we must preserve all info; we can keep as one item but it's okay. We'll produce list items for each duty as separate
• . For the "Other Functions" we can break into multiple items: Alerts qualified district staff to student problems. Locates, prepares and/or modifies materials for student use, enrichment activities and special projects under the direction of certificated staff. Prepares, duplicates, collates and distributes materials; operates a variety of office equipment. Maintains physical appearance of classroom and other assigned areas; maintains, assembles and stores therapeutic and other equipment as assigned; maintains supplies as assigned. May serve on various district committees and/or departmental work teams. Models appropriate and cooperative behavior, including protecting confidential information, consistent with district ethical guidelines. Performs related duties consistent with the scope and intent of the position. We'll keep each as separate
• . **Requirements**: Federal minimum employment requirements: Must be 18 years of age; and Hold high school diploma or its equivalent; and one of the