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Special Education Paraeducator

Fort Dodge Community School District · Fort Dodge, IA · 1 mo ago
Education$15.07/hrFull-time
We need to produce HTML fragment with headings

for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Remove boilerplate, EEO, etc. Preserve all substantive info. Let's parse the posting. First lines: Supervisor: Building Administrator Contract Length: 190 days, or as assigned Job Classification: Paraeducator FLSA Status: Non-Exempt These are metadata; we can fold into a short

or drop. Probably include a short paragraph with that info. Then: "In the Fort Dodge Community School District, we are professional, high-performing team players focused on delivering the best possible learning experience for each one of our 3700 students. We respect diversity, value integrity, reward competitively, celebrate success and support employee growth and development. We aim to attract, develop and retain the best people as part of our Dodger family." That's about the role / organization; could go under About the role. Compensation: "$15.07/hr (+$0.40 extra for 60+ college credit and $0.30 for Para Certification/Sub Authorization) All positions assigned 30 or more hours weekly (typically 6 hours daily) are eligible for a full benefits package, including medical, dental and vision insurance and paid leave." That includes Pay and Benefits and Schedule (hours). So we need sections for Pay, Benefits, Schedule if they have specific content. Job Summary: "Assist teachers in the instruction, supervision, and care of students in a variety of instructional settings, including special education, general education, work/community, early learning, and school bus, as assigned." Essential Functions: a long list of duties. Those are Responsibilities. Qualifications: "High School Diploma or G.E.D." Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities: list of abilities. Physical and Mental Demands, Work Hazards: includes Physical Requirements table and Working Conditions table. That could be under Requirements? Might be considered Qualifications or Requirements. The instruction: sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to map content. We have: - About the role: district description. - Responsibilities: Essential Functions list (duties). Also Job Summary maybe part of responsibilities. - Requirements: maybe includes Physical and Mental Demands, Work Hazards, and maybe also the contract length etc? But we can put contract length in a short p. - Qualifications: High School Diploma or G.E.D. - Skills: Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities list. - Benefits: medical, dental, vision insurance, paid leave (full benefits package). Also maybe mention eligibility for 30+ hours. - Pay: $15.07/hr plus differentials. - Schedule: Contract Length: 190 days, or as assigned; All positions assigned 30 or more hours weekly (typically 6 hours daily). So schedule info: 190 days contract, typical 6 hours daily, 30+ hours weekly. We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID etc. We must output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. We'll produce sections as needed. Let's craft:

Supervisor: Building Administrator; Contract Length: 190 days, or as assigned; Job Classification: Paraeducator; FLSA Status: Non-Exempt.

Then

About the role

In the Fort Dodge Community School District, we are professional, high-performing team players focused on delivering the best possible learning experience for each one of our 3700 students. We respect diversity, value integrity, reward competitively, celebrate success and support employee growth and development. We aim to attract, develop and retain the best people as part of our Dodger family.

Responsibilities

  • Assist teachers in the instruction, supervision, and care of students in a variety of instructional settings, including special education, general education, work/community, early learning, and school bus, as assigned.
  • then list each essential function as separate li. We need to include all essential functions bullet points. Let's extract list: - Assist teachers with educational activities. - Assist in maintaining a safe and orderly educational environment. - Assist in implementing consistent behavior management strategies and procedures. - Supervise lunchroom, recess, halls, classroom, bus loading/unloading, and other assigned areas. - Clarify and reinforce teachers' instructions and reinforce skills taught by the teacher. - Chart/graph student performance. - Assist students with work completion. - Assist in the implementation and monitoring of students' Individual Education Plans. - Prepare and organize instructional materials and equipment. - Assist in meal and snack preparation and clean up, as needed. - Assist in cleaning and sanitizing the classroom environment. - Follow students' behavior management plans. - Perform personal care duties for students with disabilities, as needed. - Assist with instruction in the community setting, as required. - Lift, carry and correctly position students with physical disabilities. - Prepare instructional materials. - Complete Medicaid documentation, as necessary. - Feed, toilet and diaper students as needed. - Implement strategies to maintain/increase appropriate behavior and reduce inappropriate behavior. - Supervise students in community/work settings. - Follow directions from teachers and administrators. - Maintain confidentiality. - Maintain satisfactory and harmonious working relationships with students, parents, and colleagues. - Provide supervision to students on the school bus, as assigned. - Attend work on a prompt and reliable basis. - Perform other duties as assigned. Note some duplicates: "Prepare instructional materials" appears twice (once in "Prepare and organize instructional materials and equipment." and later "Prepare instructional materials." We'll keep both? Might be duplicate; but we should preserve all substantive information; duplicates okay but we could deduplicate? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." It doesn't forbid deduplication, but removing duplicates could be considered summarizing away detail? It's not adding info, just removing redundancy. Safer to keep both as they appear; but we could note they are similar but keep both. However to avoid excessive repetition, we could keep unique items. I'd lean to keep unique but it's ambiguous. I'll keep unique to avoid redundancy but still preserve all substantive info (the meaning is same). I'd rather keep unique to reduce noise. But the instruction says do not summarize away detail; removing a duplicate sentence could be considered summarizing? It's not summarizing, it's removing redundant identical statement. I'd keep only one. Let's list unique items: 1. Assist teachers with educational activities. 2. Assist in maintaining a safe and orderly educational environment. 3. Assist in implementing consistent behavior management strategies and procedures. 4. Supervise lunchroom, recess, halls, classroom, bus loading/unloading, and other assigned areas. 5. Clarify and reinforce teachers' instructions and reinforce skills taught by the teacher. 6. Chart/graph student performance. 7. Assist students with work completion. 8. Assist in the implementation and monitoring of students' Individual Education Plans. 9. Prepare and organize instructional materials and equipment. 10. Assist in meal and snack preparation and clean up, as needed. 11. Assist in cleaning and sanitizing the classroom environment. 12. Follow students' behavior management plans. 13. Perform personal care duties for students with disabilities, as needed. 14. Assist with instruction in the community setting, as required. 15. Lift, carry and correctly position students with physical disabilities. 16. Complete Medicaid documentation, as necessary. 17. Feed, toilet and diaper students as needed. 18. Implement strategies to maintain/increase appropriate behavior and reduce inappropriate behavior. 19. Supervise students in community/work settings. 20. Follow directions from teachers and administrators. 21. Maintain confidentiality. 22. Maintain satisfactory and harmonious working relationships with students, parents, and colleagues. 23. Provide supervision to students on the school bus, as assigned. 24. Attend work on a prompt and reliable basis. 25. Perform other duties as assigned. That seems comprehensive. Now

    Requirements

    maybe include Physical and Mental Demands, Work Hazards tables. We need to represent them in HTML. Could use

    describing? But we could keep as

      with items? The tables have categories: Physical Activity with Occasionally/Frequently/Constantly columns and rows with X marks. Could represent as list: e.g., Mobility: Occasionally, Bend: Occasionally, Talk: Frequently, Hear: Frequently, Operate Computer: Constantly, Stationary Position: Constantly, Balance: Occasionally, Lift Up to 10 pounds: Occasionally, Lift up to 50 pounds: Frequently, Manual Dexterity Tasks: Frequently, Reaching/Pushing/Pulling: Frequently, Sitting: Constantly, Carrying (25 feet): Frequently. Working Conditions: District Office Hours: Occasionally, Indoors: Constantly, Weekends/Off Schedule: Occasionally, Temperature Extremes: Occasionally. We'll put under Requirements. Also maybe include contract length etc but we already have metadata p. Now

      Qualifications

      High School Diploma or G.E.D.

      Skills

      list Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities: - Ability to engage students with special needs - Ability to carry out duties cooperatively with others - Ability to follow health, safety, and emergency procedures - Well-developed oral and written communication skills Now

      Benefits

      All positions assigned 30 or more hours weekly (typically 6 hours daily) are eligible for a full benefits package, including medical, dental and vision insurance and paid leave.

      Pay

      $15.07/hr (+$0.40 extra for 60+ college credit and $0.30 for Para Certification/Sub Authorization)

      Schedule

      Contract Length: 190 days, or as assigned. Typical schedule: 6 hours daily, 30+ hours weekly.

      We already included contract length in metadata p; but we can also include in Schedule section. To avoid duplication, maybe keep metadata p brief and schedule section more detailed. But we must not repeat job title as heading; repeating contract length is okay if it's substantive. However we might duplicate info. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Duplication is not prohibited but could be considered redundant. Better to avoid duplication: we can put contract length and schedule info only in Schedule section, and not repeat in metadata p. The metadata p can just include Supervisor, Job Classification, FLSA Status. Let's do that. Thus:

      Supervisor: Building Administrator; Job Classification: Paraeducator; FLSA Status: Non-Exempt.

      Then About the role paragraph. Responsibilities ul. Requirements: include Physical and Mental Demands, Work Hazards. Qualifications p. Skills ul. Benefits p. Pay p. Schedule p. Now ensure we don't include any boilerplate like EEO etc. We removed. Now produce HTML. We need to use

      for section headings. Use
      • for lists. Use

        for prose. Let's craft. Check that we didn't miss any substantive info: The job summary line "Assist teachers in the instruction, supervision, and care of students in a variety of instructional settings, including special education, general education, work/community, early learning, and school bus, as assigned." This is essentially a responsibility; we included as first li. Good. Now ensure we didn't miss any other details like "All positions assigned 30 or more hours weekly (typically 6 hours daily) are eligible for a full benefits package, including medical, dental and vision insurance and paid leave." Already in Benefits. Now check that we didn't include any filler like "commensurate with experience".

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