Pre K Para Educator R11
Springfield Public Schools (Massachusetts) · Springfield, MA · 1 mo ago
TrainingFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (maybe Qualifications), Benefits, etc. Must not repeat job title. Must not include boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. Must preserve substantive info. Must not include sections with placeholder text. Must include only sections that have real content.
Let's parse the posting:
First paragraph: description of role: "Classroom Para Educators assist teachers in providing an innovative, high quality education program designed to meet the needs of all children in the Springfield Public Schools. Classroom Para Educators will work with school staff to create an educational environment that meets the needs of all students by providing instructional assistance, classroom support, and implementing effective classroom strategies."
Second paragraph: "Classroom Para Educators in the Springfield Public Schools have a substantial benefit package including competitive wages, paid sick leave, and Professional Development opportunities including a robust Para to Teacher Pipeline program."
Then "Responsibilities" heading (the posting includes "Responsibilities" as a heading). Then bullet list: "Supports direct instruction to children individually, in small groups, and in classroom settingsProvides assistance with classroom activities.Prepares instructional materials.Manages individual and classroom behaviorSupervises students on field trip activities.Performs other support services and related duties as requested by Building Principal. Examples of support services and educational settings served by paraprofessionals may include: life skills, developmental classrooms, social, emotional, & behavioral support (SEBS), LINKS (Autism) program, visual or mobility orientation, language learning delays and medical care. Please note: Additional duties may need to be performed as part of the job requirement in favor of student success. Be sure to review the Collective Bargaining Agreement to ensure that you clearly understand the conditions of your employment as a Classroom Para Educator."
Then "Qualifications" heading (the posting includes "Qualifications" with a quoted text: "If you BELIEVE, we have a place for YOU on our team! Come work for us!" Then list of qualifications: A passionate belief in SPS's mission, values, and educational model; An extraordinarily high bar for student behavior and expectations; An eagerness to set ambitious, challenging, and tangible goals, and a relentless drive to achieve them; An ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and a capacity to remain calm and focused when faced with unexpected challenges; Proven track-record of high achievement; Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including strong public speaking skills; A sense of humility in the face of success; Drive to improve the minds and lives of students in and out of the classroom; A high-school diploma or GED; and Sixty (60) Credit Hours of College Coursework or an Associate's Degree, or a passing score on one of the two following Formalized Standardized Assessments: ParaPro Assessment (http://www.ets.org/parapro/ ) or WorkKeys Certificate of Proficiency for Teacher Assistants (http://www.act.org/workkeys/profcert/index.html ); and Current authorization to work in the United States - A candidate must have such authorization by his or her first day of employment.A passing score on the Work Keys Exams in the following areas:Reading: 5Math: 4Writing: 3
Then "About Our District" heading (the posting includes "About Our District").
Then "Join a team that Empowers Educators" paragraph.
Then contact info: Carmen Molina-Figueroa email.
Then nondiscrimination statements (multiple). Those are boilerplate/EEO, should be removed.
We need to include sections only when there is real specific content. So we can have sections: About the role (maybe combine first two paragraphs?), Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits (the benefit package mentioned), About Our District (maybe as "About the district" but not required heading list includes About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. The instructions say use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should map content to these headings where appropriate. "About the role" could be the introductory description. "Responsibilities" as given. "Qualifications" as given. "Benefits" from the benefit package sentence. "About Our District" could be maybe "About the role"? Not exactly. Could be "About the district" but not in list; maybe we can omit or put under "About the role"? The instruction says prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine "About Our District" into "About the role" or maybe we can have a section "About the district" but not in the list; better to avoid extra headings not listed. So we could incorporate district info into "About the role" or maybe we can have a separate section "About the district" but risk being considered thin? It's substantive though. However the instruction says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should map content to these headings where appropriate. "About the role" could be the introductory description. "Responsibilities" as given. "Qualifications" as given. "Benefits" from the benefit package sentence. "About Our District" could be maybe "About the role"? Not exactly. Could be "About the district" but not in list; maybe we can omit or put under "About the role"? The instruction says prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine "About Our District" into "About the role" or maybe we can have a section "About the district" but not in the list; better to avoid extra headings not listed. So we could incorporate district info into "About the role" or maybe we can have a separate section "About the district" but risk being considered thin? It's substantive though. However the instruction says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but says use those for section headings (e.g.) meaning those are examples; we could still use other headings if needed. But better to stick to those.
We have content for: About the role (intro + district info?), Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits. Also maybe Skills? Could extract skills from qualifications but not needed. Pay? Not specified (competitive wages but no numbers). Should not create Pay section unless posting actually states them; it says competitive wages but no specific numbers, that's vague; but "competitive wages" is a statement about pay. However the instruction says 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. It says "competitive wages" is a statement about pay, but is that considered specific? It's somewhat vague but still states that wages are competitive. Might be considered stating pay info (though not a number). The instruction says "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does state competitive wages, so we could include a Pay section with that statement. However we also have Benefits section already. Could combine pay into Benefits? But they said prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could have Benefits section that includes both competitive wages and other benefits. That would be fine.
Schedule: not mentioned. So omit Schedule.
Requirements: Could be similar to Qualifications; but we have Qualifications section. Could omit Requirements.
Skills: Could be part of Qualifications.
Thus we can have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits.
Now we need to format: About the role
then
About the role
then... combined intro and district info.
ThenResponsibilities
then- each duty. We need to parse responsibilities list: The posting gave a run-on sentence: "Supports direct instruction to children individually, in small groups, and in classroom settingsProvides assistance with classroom activities.Prepares instructional materials.Manages individual and classroom behaviorSupervises students on field trip activities.Performs other support services and related duties as requested by Building Principal. Examples of support services and educational settings served by paraprofessionals may include: life skills, developmental classrooms, social, emotional, & behavioral support (SEBS), LINKS (Autism) program, visual or mobility orientation, language learning delays and medical care. Please note: Additional duties may need to be performed as part of the job requirement in favor of student success. Be sure to review the Collective Bargaining Agreement to ensure that you clearly understand the conditions of your employment as a Classroom Para Educator." We need to split into list items. Likely each sentence before a capital letter? Let's break: - Supports direct instruction to children individually, in small groups, and in classroom settings - Provides assistance with classroom activities. - Prepares instructional materials. - Manages individual and classroom behavior - Supervises students on field trip activities - Performs other support services and related duties as requested by Building Principal. - Examples of support services and educational settings served by paraprofessionals may include: life skills, developmental classrooms, social, emotional, & behavioral support (SEBS), LINKS (Autism) program, visual or mobility orientation, language learning delays and medical care. - Please note: Additional duties may need to be performed as part of the job requirement in favor of student success. - Be sure to review the Collective Bargaining Agreement to ensure that you clearly understand the conditions of your employment as a Classroom Para Educator. We should keep all substantive info. The last two are more like notes; still part of responsibilities. Keep them. Now Qualifications: The posting includes a quoted motivational sentence then list. We need to extract list items. Qualifications text after the quote: "A passionate belief in SPS's mission, values, and educational model; An extraordinarily high bar for student behavior and expectations; An eagerness to set ambitious, challenging, and tangible goals, and a relentless drive to achieve them; An ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and a capacity to remain calm and focused when faced with unexpected challenges; Proven track-record of high achievement; Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including strong public speaking skills; A sense of humility in the face of success; Drive to improve the minds and lives of students in and out of the classroom; A high-school diploma or GED; and Sixty (60) Credit Hours of College Coursework or an Associate's Degree, or a passing score on one of the two following Formalized Standardized Assessments: ParaPro Assessment (http://www.ets.org/parapro/ ) or WorkKeys Certificate of Proficiency for Teacher Assistants (http://www.act.org/workkeys/profcert/index.html ); and Current authorization to work in the United States - A candidate must have such authorization by his or her first day of employment.A passing score on the Work Keys Exams in the following areas:Reading: 5Math: 4Writing: 3" We need to split into list items. Each item separated by semicolon or period? Let's parse: - A passionate belief in SPS's mission, values, and educational model; - An extraordinarily high bar for student behavior and expectations; - An eagerness to set ambitious, challenging, and tangible goals, and a relentless drive to achieve them; - An ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and a capacity to remain calm and focused when faced with unexpected challenges; - Proven track-record of high achievement; - Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including strong public speaking skills; - A sense of humility in the face of success; - Drive to improve the minds and lives of students in and out of the classroom; - A high-school diploma or GED; - and Sixty (60) Credit Hours of College Coursework or an Associate's Degree, or a passing score on one of the two following Formalized Standardized Assessments: ParaPro Assessment (http://www.ets.org/parapro/ ) or WorkKeys Certificate of Proficiency for Teacher Assistants (http://www.act.org/workkeys/profcert/index.html ); - and Current authorization to work in the United States - A candidate must have such authorization by his or her first day of employment. - A passing score on the Work Keys Exams in the following areas:Reading: 5Math: 4Writing: 3 Note there is an "and" before some items; we can keep as is. Now Benefits: The posting says: "Classroom Para Educators in the Springfield Public Schools have a substantial benefit package including competitive wages, paid sick leave, and Professional Development opportunities including a robust Para to Teacher Pipeline program." Thus benefits: competitive wages, paid sick leave, Professional Development opportunities including a robust Para to Teacher Pipeline program. We can list as bullet list. Now About the role: combine first paragraph and district info. First paragraph: "Classroom Para Educators assist teachers in providing an innovative, high quality education program designed to meet the needs of all children in