Paraprofessional Signing Aide - Park School (SY26/27)
Evanston/Skokie School District 65 · Evanston, IL · 1 mo ago
Education$39k/yrInternship
We need to output HTML fragment with headings 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. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Content:
- Intro: "The job of Paraprofessional Signing Aide is done for the purpose/s of supporting students who use sign as a receptive/expressive tool to access the instructional program within an assigned classroom." That's about the role.
- Specific responsibilities may include ... list: assisting in supervision, care and instruction; assisting in implementing plans; monitoring student behavior during non-classroom time; providing information to appropriate school personnel; attending IEP meetings.
- Then "Specific Duties & Responsibilities" with many bullet-like sentences. Those are responsibilities.
- Then "Language Skills:", "Mathematical Skills:", "Reasoning Ability:" these are skills.
- Then "Qualifications Education: A high school diploma or GED. Experience: Job-related experience preferred. Certificates/Licenses/Registrations: Educator License with Stipulations (PARA), Substitute (SUB), Professional Educator License (PEL), or Educator License with Stipulations (TBE). Score of 80% or higher on the para signing assessment assessed by the teacher of the DHH."
- Then "Compensation and Benefits:(2026-2027 school year) Minimum starting salary with a license (6.0 hours per day) - Step 1/$39,335.40 Benefits Include Medical and Dental Insurance Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund pension plan Life insurance Long term disability Pet insurance Flexible benefits plan 10 Sick days 2 Personal days Paid holidays Direct deposit Employee assistance program"
- Then "Information on obtaining a paraprofessional license can be found on the ISBE website - click here for link." That's maybe a link but we can include as part of Qualifications? Might be considered boilerplate? It's info about obtaining license; could be part of Qualifications. We'll keep as a paragraph under Qualifications maybe.
- Then "Application Procedure Apply online at www.district65.net Selection Procedure Selected qualified candidates will be notified to schedule an interview." That's application instructions, which we must remove.
Thus we need sections: About the role (intro), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements? Possibly we can combine Qualifications and Requirements? The instruction says use headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which sections have content.
- About the role: we have intro paragraph.
- Responsibilities: we have list of duties (the bullet list). We'll put as
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. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Content:
- Intro: "The job of Paraprofessional Signing Aide is done for the purpose/s of supporting students who use sign as a receptive/expressive tool to access the instructional program within an assigned classroom." That's about the role.
- Specific responsibilities may include ... list: assisting in supervision, care and instruction; assisting in implementing plans; monitoring student behavior during non-classroom time; providing information to appropriate school personnel; attending IEP meetings.
- Then "Specific Duties & Responsibilities" with many bullet-like sentences. Those are responsibilities.
- Then "Language Skills:", "Mathematical Skills:", "Reasoning Ability:" these are skills.
- Then "Qualifications Education: A high school diploma or GED. Experience: Job-related experience preferred. Certificates/Licenses/Registrations: Educator License with Stipulations (PARA), Substitute (SUB), Professional Educator License (PEL), or Educator License with Stipulations (TBE). Score of 80% or higher on the para signing assessment assessed by the teacher of the DHH."
- Then "Compensation and Benefits:(2026-2027 school year) Minimum starting salary with a license (6.0 hours per day) - Step 1/$39,335.40 Benefits Include Medical and Dental Insurance Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund pension plan Life insurance Long term disability Pet insurance Flexible benefits plan 10 Sick days 2 Personal days Paid holidays Direct deposit Employee assistance program"
- Then "Information on obtaining a paraprofessional license can be found on the ISBE website - click here for link." That's maybe a link but we can include as part of Qualifications? Might be considered boilerplate? It's info about obtaining license; could be part of Qualifications. We'll keep as a paragraph under Qualifications maybe.
- Then "Application Procedure Apply online at www.district65.net Selection Procedure Selected qualified candidates will be notified to schedule an interview." That's application instructions, which we must remove.
Thus we need sections: About the role (intro), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements? Possibly we can combine Qualifications and Requirements? The instruction says use headings for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which sections have content.
- About the role: we have intro paragraph.
- Responsibilities: we have list of duties (the bullet list). We'll put as - each duty.
- Requirements: maybe we can include Education, Experience, Certificates/Licenses, etc. But Qualifications also similar. The instruction says we can have both Requirements and Qualifications sections if content distinct. However we might combine to avoid thin sections. But we need to follow: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one section? But headings are predefined; we can omit sections if no real specific content. So we could have only About the role, Responsibilities, Skills, Benefits, Pay. Possibly also Qualifications if we separate.
Let's see content:
- Qualifications: Education, Experience, Certificates/Licenses, Score requirement.
- Requirements: Not explicitly separate; but we could treat those as Requirements. However the posting uses "Qualifications" heading. So we can have a Qualifications section.
- Skills: Language Skills, Mathematical Skills, Reasoning Ability.
- Benefits and Pay: Compensation and Benefits includes salary and benefits list.
- Schedule: Not mentioned explicitly; only "6.0 hours per day" is part of compensation. Could infer schedule but not explicit. We should not create Schedule section unless posting actually states them. It does not state schedule separate; only mentions hours per day in compensation. So we omit Schedule.
- Requirements: Could we treat Education/Experience as Requirements? But we already have Qualifications. Might be redundant. To avoid thin sections, we could merge Requirements into Qualifications. But we need to decide which heading to use. Since the posting explicitly mentions "Qualifications Education:" etc., we can use Qualifications heading. We'll omit Requirements.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay.
Check if any content for Requirements separate: none.
Now we need to format.
About the role: paragraph.
Responsibilities: list items from "Specific responsibilities may include..." and then the "Specific Duties & Responsibilities" list.
We need to capture all duties. Let's extract them:
From first paragraph after intro: "Specific responsibilities may include assisting in the supervision, care and instruction of students, some of whom may have identified special education needs, in the general education classroom or in a self-contained special education classroom; assisting in implementing plans for instruction; monitoring student behavior during non-classroom time; providing information to appropriate school personnel; and attending IEP meetings."
Then after "Specific Duties & Responsibilities" we have a series of sentences each ending with a period. Each seems a duty.
List them:
1. Adapts classroom activities, assignments and/or materials under the direction of the supervising teacher for the purpose of supporting and reinforcing classroom objectives.
2. Administers tests, homework, make-up work, etc. for the purpose of supporting teachers in the classroom.
3. Administers immediate first aid and medical assistance, as needed, and as instructed by a health care professional (e.g. diapering, tube feeding, colostomy bags, medication, etc.) for the purpose of meeting immediate health care needs.
4. Assists students who may be medically fragile or who have a physical disability for the purpose of maintaining students' personal hygiene.
5. Actively engages in meetings and in-service presentations (e.g. first aid, CPR, emergency procedures, etc.) for the purpose of acquiring and/or conveying information relative to job functions.
6. Communicates with supervising instructional staff, professional support personnel, and parents for the purpose of assisting in evaluating progress and/or implementing IEP objectives.
7. Implements under the supervision of assigned teacher, student behavioral plans designed by IEP team and/or intervention plans for the purpose of presenting and/or reinforcing concepts needed to be successful in the school environment.
8. Maintains instructional materials and/or manual and electronic files/records for the purpose of ensuring availability of items; data collection; and/or meeting mandated requirements.
9. Monitors students during assigned periods within a variety of school environments (e.g. rest rooms, playgrounds, hallways, bus loading zones, cafeteria, parking lots, etc.) for the purpose of maintaining a safe and positive learning environment.
10. Provides, under the supervision of assigned teacher, instruction to students in a variety of individual and group activities (e.g. academic subjects, social skills, daily living skills, etc.) for the purpose of reinforcing instructional objectives; implementing IEP and/or intervention plans; and ensuring students success in school.
11. Translates verbal communication for the purpose of assisting students, teachers and parents in communicating effectively between voice to sign and sign to voice.
12. Uses adapted classroom work/homework/assessment instruments under the direction of the teacher for the purpose of providing voice to sign and sign to voice support and/or reinforcing classroom objectives.
13. Supplements the classroom environment with sign language.
14. Signs with a student that is deemed to require same level of proficiency.
15. Performs any other duties as assigned.
We should include also the earlier responsibilities (supervision etc.) as list items. Could combine them.
Thus responsibilities list will include those 5 from the first paragraph plus the 15 detailed.
Now Qualifications:
- Education: A high school diploma or GED.
- Experience: Job-related experience preferred.
- Certificates/Licenses/Registrations: Educator License with Stipulations (PARA), Substitute (SUB), Professional Educator License (PEL), or Educator License with Stipulations (TBE).
- Score of 80% or higher on the para signing assessment assessed by the teacher of the DHH.
- Information on obtaining a paraprofessional license can be found on the ISBE website - click here for link. (We can keep as a sentence.)
Now Skills:
- Language Skills: Reads and comprehends simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Writes simple correspondence. Effectively presents information in one-on-one and small group situations.
- Mathematical Skills: Adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Computes rate, ratio, and percent and draws and interprets bar graphs.
- Reasoning Ability: Applies understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Deals with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
We could format each as
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- for each skill category, with the description inside.
Now Benefits and Pay:
Compensation and Benefits paragraph includes salary and benefits list.
We need separate Pay and Benefits sections? The instruction: Use headings for Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We have both salary and benefits. So we should create Pay section with the salary info, and Benefits section with the list of benefits.
Thus:
Pay: Minimum starting salary with a license (6.0 hours per day) - Step 1/$39,335.40 (for 2026-2027 school year). Could include the school year note.
Benefits: list: Medical and Dental Insurance, Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund pension plan, Life insurance, Long term disability, Pet insurance, Flexible benefits plan, 10 Sick days, 2 Personal days, Paid holidays, Direct deposit, Employee assistance program.
We should keep as
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Now About the role: paragraph.
Now ensure we don't include any boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Not present.
Now output HTML fragment only.
Let's craft.
We'll start with
About the role
...
Then Responsibilities
...
Then Qualifications
...
Then Skills
...
Then Pay
...
Then Benefits
...
Make sure to preserve all info.
Now write the paragraphs.
About the role paragraph: "The job of Paraprofessional Signing Aide is done for the purpose/s of supporting students who use sign as a receptive/expressive tool to access the instructional program within an assigned classroom."
We could keep exactly.
Now Responsibilities list items: combine the first paragraph responsibilities and the detailed duties.
First paragraph responsibilities as list items:
- assisting in the supervision, care and instruction of students, some of whom may have identified special education needs, in the general education classroom or in a self-contained special education classroom
- assisting in implementing plans for instruction
- monitoring student behavior during non-classroom time
- providing information to appropriate school personnel
- attending IEP meetings
Now the detailed duties list as above.
We'll include all.
Now Qualifications list items:
- Education: A high school diploma or GED.
- Experience: Job-related experience preferred.
- Certificates/Licenses/Registrations: Educator License with Stipulations (PARA), Substitute (SUB), Professional Educator License (PEL), or Educator License with Stipulations (TBE).
- Score of 80% or higher on the para
- maybe each bullet is a sentence. Or we could keep as
. The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. For skills, it's a list of items (Language Skills, Mathematical Skills, Reasoning Ability). Could treat each as list items. We'll do
- for each skill category, with the description inside.
Now Benefits and Pay:
Compensation and Benefits paragraph includes salary and benefits list.
We need separate Pay and Benefits sections? The instruction: Use headings for Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We have both salary and benefits. So we should create Pay section with the salary info, and Benefits section with the list of benefits.
Thus:
Pay: Minimum starting salary with a license (6.0 hours per day) - Step 1/$39,335.40 (for 2026-2027 school year). Could include the school year note.
Benefits: list: Medical and Dental Insurance, Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund pension plan, Life insurance, Long term disability, Pet insurance, Flexible benefits plan, 10 Sick days, 2 Personal days, Paid holidays, Direct deposit, Employee assistance program.
We should keep as
- .
Now About the role: paragraph.
Now ensure we don't include any boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Not present.
Now output HTML fragment only.
Let's craft.
We'll start with
About the role
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Qualifications
- ...
Skills
- ...
Pay
...
ThenBenefits
- ...
- .
Now About the role: paragraph.
Now ensure we don't include any boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Not present.
Now output HTML fragment only.
Let's craft.
We'll start with
- for each skill category, with the description inside.
Now Benefits and Pay:
Compensation and Benefits paragraph includes salary and benefits list.
We need separate Pay and Benefits sections? The instruction: Use headings for Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We have both salary and benefits. So we should create Pay section with the salary info, and Benefits section with the list of benefits.
Thus:
Pay: Minimum starting salary with a license (6.0 hours per day) - Step 1/$39,335.40 (for 2026-2027 school year). Could include the school year note.
Benefits: list: Medical and Dental Insurance, Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund pension plan, Life insurance, Long term disability, Pet insurance, Flexible benefits plan, 10 Sick days, 2 Personal days, Paid holidays, Direct deposit, Employee assistance program.
We should keep as
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and