Paraprofessional Specialist - High School (multiple positions) 2026-27 school year

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role (maybe purpose statement?), Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We need to parse the posting. First, job title: "2026-27 School Year 171 days/yr 7.5 hours/day Must have 60 college credit hours, pass the Paraprofessional test in the State of MO or Missouri 20-hour Online Substitute Training Program". That seems like a weird title; but we are told not to repeat job title as heading. So we ignore. We need to extract purpose statement: "Purpose Statement The job of Paraprofessional Specialist was established for the purpose/s of providing support to the instructional program within the assigned classroom with specific responsibility for working with at-risk students one-on-one; following educational and specific behavioral plans; documenting students’ daily activities, and modeling appropriate behaviors and interactions with student and staff. This job reports to School Principal". That's purpose statement. We can put that under

About the role

maybe. Or "About the role" is typical. We'll include purpose statement there. Responsibilities: The "Essential Functions" list many bullet-like sentences. Those are responsibilities. We'll put them under

Responsibilities

with

• each. Requirements: There's a "Job Requirements: Minimum Qualifications" section with SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, ABILITY, etc. Also "Experience" and "Education". Also "Required Testing", "Continuing Educ. / Training", "Certificates & Licenses". We need to decide which sections to include. We have sections: Qualifications, Skills, Requirements. The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we need to map content accordingly. We have qualifications: Education (60 college credit hours or pass Paraprofessional test), maybe also Valid Driver's License, Evidence of Insurability, Criminal Justice Fingerprint/Background Clearance. Also maybe "20-hour Online Substitute Training Program" is part of qualifications? Actually that appears in the title line: "Must have 60 college credit hours, pass the Paraprofessional test in the State of MO or Missouri 20-hour Online Substitute Training Program". So qualifications include: 60 college credit hours OR pass Paraprofessional test OR complete 20-hour Online Substitute Training Program? The phrasing: "Must have 60 college credit hours, pass the Paraprofessional test in the State of MO or Missouri 20-hour Online Substitute Training Program". Could be ambiguous: Must have 60 college credit hours, pass the Paraprofessional test in the State of MO or Missouri 20-hour Online Substitute Training Program. Probably means: Must have 60 college credit hours OR pass the Paraprofessional test OR complete the 20-hour Online Substitute Training Program. We'll keep as is. Skills: The "SKILLS are required..." bullet list: adhering to safety practices; preparing and maintaining accurate records. Also maybe other skill-based competencies? It lists "Specific skill-based competencies required to satisfactorily perform the functions of the job include: adhering to safety practices; and preparing and maintaining accurate records." So we can put those under Skills. Knowledge and Ability could go under Qualifications? Or maybe under Requirements? The instruction says we can have Requirements and Qualifications separate. We'll put knowledge, ability, etc under Qualifications? But we already have Skills heading. We could put Knowledge and Ability under Qualifications (since they are knowledge/ability). Or we could put them under Requirements. Let's decide: We'll put Requirements as the general job requirements (experience, education, certificates). Qualifications could be more specific like knowledge, skills, abilities. But we already have Skills separate. Might be overlapping. Better: Use Requirements for mandatory items: Education (60 college credit hours or pass test or training), Certificates & Licenses (Valid Driver's License, Evidence of Insurability, Criminal Justice Fingerprint/Background Clearance). Also maybe "Experience: Job Related Experience Is Required." That's vague. Qualifications could include Knowledge, Ability, etc. But we already have Skills separate. So we can put Knowledge and Ability under Qualifications. Let's extract: Experience: "Job Related Experience Is Required." That's not specific; maybe we can omit as filler? It says "Experience Job Related Experience Is Required." That's generic; we could include but it's not specific detail. Might be considered filler. The instruction: do not emit heading followed by filler/placeholder text. So maybe we omit Experience section if it's just that line. Education: "Targeted job-related education that meets organization’s prerequisite requirements." That's also vague. But we have specific education requirement: Must have 60 college credit hours or pass the Paraprofessional test or 20-hour Online Substitute Training Program. That's specific. So we can put that under Requirements. Required Testing: "None Specified" -> filler, omit. Continuing Educ. / Training: "None Specified" -> omit. Certificates & Licenses: "Valid Driver’s License & Evidence of Insurability Clearances Criminal Justice Fingerprint/Background Clearance". That's specific. Thus Requirements section will include: Education requirement (60 college credit hours OR pass Paraprofessional test OR complete 20-hour Online Substitute Training Program) and Certificates & Licenses (Valid Driver's License, Evidence of Insurability, Criminal Justice Fingerprint/Background Clearance). Also maybe "Experience Job Related Experience Is Required." but that's vague; we could include as a line but it's not specific. Might be okay to include as a bullet? It says "Job Related Experience Is Required." That's a requirement but not specific. Might be considered filler? It's not placeholder like "not specified". It's a statement. Could include. We'll include as a bullet. Now Skills: we have adhering to safety practices; preparing and maintaining accurate records. Knowledge: "KNOWLEDGE is required to perform basic math, including calculations using fractions, percents, and/or ratios; read a variety of manuals, write documents following prescribed formats, and/or present information to others; and analyze situations to define issues and draw conclusions. Specific knowledge-based competencies required to satisfactorily perform the functions of the job include: age-appropriate activities when working with high-risk youth; and concepts of grammar and punctuation." Ability: "ABILITY is required to schedule activities; gather and/or collate data; and use job-related equipment. Flexibility is required to work with others in a variety of circumstances; work with data utilizing defined but different processes; and operate equipment using standardized methods. Ability is also required to work with a wide diversity of individuals; work with a variety of data, and utilize a variety of job-related equipment. Problem-solving is required to identify issues and create action plans. Problem-solving with data requires independent interpretation of guidelines, and problem-solving with equipment is limited to moderate. Specific ability-based competencies required to satisfactorily perform the functions of the job include: establishing and maintaining effective working relationships; communicating with diverse groups; maintaining confidentiality; working as part of a team; and working with frequent interruptions." We can put Knowledge and Ability under Qualifications. Now Responsibilities: list each essential function as bullet. Let's extract essential functions sentences (they are separated by periods). We'll break each sentence into a bullet. List: - Adapts classroom activities, assignments and/or materials under the direction of the supervising teacher for the purpose of supporting and reinforcing classroom objectives. - Communicates with a variety of professionals (e.g. Speech Therapist, PTs, COTAs, etc.) for the purpose of assisting in evaluating progress and/or implementing IEP objectives. - Collects student and classroom data (e.g. behavior, completed assignments, on/off task times, etc.) for the purpose of monitoring student growth and possible IEP/BIP revisions and independently facilitate instruction and behavior supports or plans under the direction of the classroom teacher for the purposes of presenting, reinforcing and learning concepts. - Provides necessary accommodations and modifications to increase accessibility in general education and special education environments. - Remains current on educational practices through targeted professional development to support students who are significantly impacted by their disability. - Maintains confidentiality of students’ information for the purpose of following adopted policies and guidelines. - Maintains manual and electronic files and/or records for the purpose of providing a written reference; and/or meeting mandated requirements. - Models conversation, manners, clean-up activities, listening, and everyday interactions for the purpose of demonstrating appropriate social behavior in a culturally sensitive manner. - Performs other related duties as assigned for the purpose of ensuring the efficient and effective functioning of the work unit. - Provides instruction to students, under the direction of the classroom teacher (e.g. math, science, reading, behavioral skills, daily living skills, writing, verbal skills, etc.) for the purpose of implementing IEP goals; assisting in adapting to mainstream classrooms/; and ensuring student's success. - Monitors students during assigned periods within a variety of school environments for the purpose of providing student safety, removing students when necessary and de-escalating situations outside the classroom. - Responds to emergency situations for the purpose of resolving immediate safety concerns through district approved procedures and techniques. Now Purpose Statement: we can put under About the role. Purpose Statement: "The job of Paraprofessional Specialist was established for the purpose/s of providing support to the instructional program within the assigned classroom with specific responsibility for working with at-risk students one-on-one; following educational and specific behavioral plans; documenting students’ daily activities, and modeling appropriate behaviors and interactions with student and staff. This job reports to School Principal." We'll put that as a paragraph. Now Benefits, Pay, Schedule: Not present. So we omit those sections. Now we need to output only HTML fragment, no html/body tags, no markdown. We'll structure:

  About the role

  ...

  Responsibilities

  • ...
  ...

  Requirements

  • ...
  ...

  Qualifications

  Maybe we split into Knowledge and Ability? But we have only one Qualifications heading. We'll put knowledge and ability as sub-bullets? Could just list them as paragraphs. But we need to follow instruction: use
  • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

    for prose. For qualifications, we have knowledge and ability statements which are prose; we could put them in

    . But we also have skills separate. Thus:

    Skills

    • Adhering to safety practices
    • Preparing and maintaining accurate records

    Qualifications

    Knowledge: basic math (fractions, percents, ratios); reading manuals; writing documents; presenting information; analyzing situations; age-appropriate activities for high-risk youth; concepts of grammar and punctuation.

    Ability: schedule activities; gather/collate data; use job-related equipment; flexibility to work with others; work with data using defined processes; operate equipment using standardized methods; work with diverse individuals; work with varied data; utilize various equipment; problem-solving to identify issues and create action plans; problem-solving with data requires independent interpretation of guidelines; problem-solving with equipment limited to moderate; establishing/maintaining effective working relationships; communicating with diverse groups; maintaining confidentiality; working as part of a team; working with frequent interruptions.

    But we might want to break into
    for each competency? The instruction says use
    • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Knowledge and ability are lists of competencies; we could make them lists. However they are long sentences; but we can still list each bullet. Let's do that for clarity. We'll create two lists: Knowledge-based competencies and Ability-based competencies. But we have only one Qualifications heading; we could have subheadings? Not allowed; only the given headings. So we can