SY26-27 Van Sickle Prep Middle School Para Educator in Training

Location: Van Sickle Prep Middle School

About the role

The Special Education Paraprofessional holds primary responsibility for overseeing the implementation of effective, rigorous academic and behavior intervention systems with a small caseload of students. This individual will work closely with a small caseload of students who need additional supports to be successful in the classroom, supporting those students, their families, and their teachers to fundamentally change the successes they are realizing.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside an experienced special educator to support a small caseload of students, driving the academic achievement of students with moderate to severe need.
• Implement an effective, rigorous academic and behavior intervention system with a small caseload of students.
• Provide consistent and high academic and behavioral expectations.
• Support student mastery of state, city, and school academic and behavioral standards.
• Lead daily individual and small group tutoring sessions.
• Communicate effectively with students, families, and colleagues.

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.
• Current authorization to work in the United States by the first day of employment.