We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate.
We need to parse the posting.
Job Title: Special Education Aide (but we don't output heading for title). Supervisor: Reports to Building Principal (metadata). Terms of Employment: 185 days (maybe schedule? It's days per year). Hours: The required number of paid work hours is contingent upon position type (i.e., 7.5 or 7 hours). The employee's school day or work schedule is established by the building principal in consideration of the employee's required paid work hours.
Pay Grade: 103-104 (Pay). Benefits not mentioned. So we may not include Benefits section.
We need sections: About the role (job summary). Responsibilities (essential duties). Requirements (maybe Minimum Qualifications). Qualifications (maybe same as Requirements? Could combine). Skills (knowledge, skills and abilities). Pay (Pay Grade). Schedule (Terms of Employment: 185 days, hours). We'll include only if content.
Let's extract content.
Job Summary: "Position provides assistance to teachers or other district personnel in the daily instruction and care of eligible students with disabilities. As a paraprofessional, the employee works under the direction of the teacher to monitor and address the instructional, personal, and behavioral needs of students. Although responsible to the teacher(s) to whose classrooms he/she is assigned, the individual's overall performance is evaluated by the principal or designee. This job description describes in general terms the normal duties that the special education paraprofessional will be expected to undertake. However, the job or responsibilities and/or the location may vary or be amended without changing the level of responsibility associated with the job. Duties will vary depending upon the age of the students served as well as the nature and severity of the student's disabilities. Although responsible to the teacher(s) to whose classrooms he/she is assigned, the individual's overall performance is evaluated by the principal or designee. Employees are subject to reassignment at any time by the District Office or the building principal in consultation with the District Special Education Office to meet the changing needs of students with disabilities within the school or District."
We can condense but must preserve all substantive info; we cannot summarize away detail? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." That suggests we should not omit details, but we can rephrase? Probably we should keep the sentences as is, maybe split into
. We can keep the content but not duplicate lines.
Responsibilities: list of essential duties. We'll put each bullet as
.
Essential Duties list:
- Assists with the implementation of Individualized Education Programs for students with disabilities under the direction of the classroom teacher(s) and/or service provider(s).
- Assists with individual or small group instruction developed and supervised by the teacher in the assigned class(es) including but not limited to teaching, re-teaching and reviewing lessons, asking questions and prompting students and/or guiding independent work.
- Attends to the needs of students with disabilities that may include personal hygiene, lifting, feeding, toileting, monitoring supportive medical equipment, i.e., walkers, wheelchairs, etc. and/or facilitating the use of assistive technology.
- Escorts and supervises students not limited to daily arrival and school departure, transitions between classes, the playground, cafeteria, transporting to and/or from school and/or off-site learning activities.
- Collects, charts and reports student performance data to teachers and/or other service providers.
- Performs general clerical tasks for assigned classroom, including maintaining student records (i.e., data books, portfolios, assignment folders).
- Distributes and collects instructional materials and reports.
- Assists with behavioral management programs in the classroom and implements behavior intervention plans and/or plans for independence for individual students.
- Successfully participates in designated staff development needed to fulfill job duties. Paraprofessionals who may be required to physically restrain students to ensure their safety and the safety of others will be provided appropriate staff development.
- Maintains bulletin boards and classroom supply inventories, as appropriate.
- Provides intensive behavioral supports, as appropriate. Paraprofessionals who provide this IEP required service are required to participate in ongoing, supplemental staff development.
- Communicates with parents only under the direction and supervision of a teacher.
- Serves as an educational team member who collaborates and supports the efforts of school staff and the needs of all students with disabilities.
Other Duties: Performs any other related duties as assigned by the Principal or other appropriate administrator.
We can combine essential duties and other duties into one list.
Requirements: Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Required) Candidate must meet the requirements for a Paraprofessional: You must have one of the following: 60 college credit hours from an accredited college, Associate degree, Passing score on the Work Keys or ParaPro.
Also knowledge, skills and abilities: read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; write routine reports and correspondence; communicate effectively; apply common sense in the delivery, understanding and following instructions in written, oral, or diagram form; add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals; and compute rate, ratio, and percent and draw and interpret bar graphs.
Physical Requirements: also part of requirements? Could be separate but we have no specific heading for Physical Requirements; we could include under Requirements or Qualifications. The instruction says use headings for section headings (About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we have Requirements and Qualifications separate; maybe Requirements = minimum qualifications, Qualifications = knowledge, skills and abilities? Or we could treat Requirements as the minimum qualifications, Qualifications as knowledge, skills and abilities, Skills as maybe the same? But we need to avoid thin sections. We could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one section? But we must follow headings only if content exists. We could put minimum qualifications under Requirements, and knowledge, skills and abilities under Qualifications. Skills maybe we could omit if duplicate.
Let's decide:
- About the role: job summary.
- Responsibilities: essential duties list.
- Requirements: minimum qualifications (education/certification).
- Qualifications: knowledge, skills and abilities (including reading, writing, math, etc.)
- Skills: maybe physical requirements? But physical requirements are not skills. Could put under Qualifications as well. But we have to avoid thin sections. Perhaps we combine Knowledge, skills and abilities and Physical Requirements into Qualifications. Then we could omit Skills section.
Pay: Pay Grade: 103-104.
Schedule: Terms of Employment: 185 days; Hours: 7.5 or 7 hours; schedule determined by principal.
We'll not include Benefits.
Now produce HTML:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
Requirements
- 60 college credit hours from an accredited college
- Associate degree
- Passing score on the Work Keys or ParaPro
Qualifications
Knowledge, skills and abilities include the following: read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; write routine reports and correspondence; communicate effectively; apply common sense in the delivery, understanding and following instructions in written, oral, or diagram form; add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals; compute rate, ratio, and percent and draw and interpret bar graphs.
Physical requirements: regularly required to stand and reach with hands and arms; walk; sit; stoop or kneel; crouch or crawl; capable of frequently lifting or moving up to 40 pounds; sufficiently mobile to ensure the well-being and safety of students, including positioning, transferring and restraining; specific vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to focus; ability to sit and stand for extended periods; manual dexterity for using a telephone and data entry; ability to read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; hear and understand speech at normal levels and on the telephone; speak in audible tones so others may understand clearly in person and on the telephone.
Pay
Pay Grade: 103-104
Schedule
Terms of Employment: 185 days. The required number of paid work hours is contingent upon position type (i.e., 7.5 or 7 hours). The employee's school day or work schedule is established by the building principal in consideration of the employee's required paid work hours.
We must ensure no duplicate lines. Also we removed boilerplate like "Job Description in no way states..." etc. Also removed "Other Duties" maybe we should include as part of responsibilities: "Performs any other related duties as assigned by the Principal or other appropriate administrator." We'll add that as a bullet.
Also include "Although responsible to the teacher(s) to whose classrooms he/she is assigned, the individual's overall performance is evaluated by the principal or designee." appears twice in summary; we can keep once.
Let's craft About the role paragraph combining summary without duplication.
We'll write:
Position provides assistance to teachers or other district personnel in the daily instruction and care of eligible students with disabilities. As a paraprofessional, the employee works under the direction of the teacher to monitor and address the instructional, personal, and behavioral needs of students. Although responsible to the teacher(s) to whose classrooms he/she is assigned, the individual's overall performance is evaluated by the principal or designee. This job description describes in general terms the normal duties that the special education paraprofessional will be expected to undertake; however, the job responsibilities and/or location may vary or be amended without changing the level of responsibility. Duties will vary depending upon the age of the students served as well as the nature and severity of the student's disabilities. Employees are subject to reassignment at any time by the District Office or the building principal in consultation with the District Special Education Office to meet the changing needs of students with disabilities within the school or district.
That captures.
Now Responsibilities list: include all essential duties plus other duty.
Let's list bullets:
- Assists with the implementation of Individualized Education Programs for students with disabilities under the direction of the classroom teacher(s) and/or service provider(s).
- Assists with individual or small group instruction developed and supervised by the teacher in the assigned class(es) including but not limited to teaching, re-teaching and reviewing lessons, asking questions and prompting students and/or guiding independent work.
- Attends to the needs of students with disabilities that may include personal hygiene, lifting, feeding, toileting, monitoring supportive medical equipment (e.g., walkers, wheelchairs) and/or facilitating the use of assistive technology.
- Escorts and supervises students not limited to daily arrival and school departure, transitions between classes, the playground, cafeteria, transporting to and/or from school and/or off-site learning activities.
- Collects, charts and reports student performance data to teachers and/or other service providers.
- Performs general clerical tasks for assigned classroom, including maintaining student records (e.g., data books, portfolios, assignment folders).
- Distributes and collects instructional materials and reports.
- Assists with behavioral management programs in the classroom and implements behavior intervention plans and/or plans for independence for individual students.
- Successfully participates in designated staff development needed to fulfill job duties; paraprofessionals who may be required to physically restrain students to ensure their safety and the safety of others will be provided appropriate staff development.
- Maintains bulletin boards and classroom supply inventories, as appropriate.
- Provides intensive behavioral supports, as appropriate; paraprofessionals who provide this IEP‑required service are required to participate in