Teacher Assistant - Special Education 1:1 Para
Williamsburg-James City County Schools · Williamsburg, VA · 1 mo ago
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We need to produce HTML fragment with headings for sections: 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. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Content:
- FLSA Status: Non-exempt Grade: U02, U03 (Unified) Revision Date: January 1, 2016 Location: Elementary
- Job Summary: Assists the teacher in implementing instructional procedures and objectives. Reinforces and implements instructional activities as prescribed by the teacher to provide additional time for instruction and guidance.
- Duties And Responsibilities: long list.
- Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and/or Abilities Required): list.
- Supervision Exercised: Monitors classroom activities in absence of the teacher.
- Supervision Received: Performs duties under the supervision of principal. Reports directly to the teacher to whom assigned; receives annual performance evaluation from principal.
- Working Conditions And Physical Requirements: description.
- This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties... (boilerplate maybe but it's substantive? It's a disclaimer; we can maybe drop as boilerplate? It's generic but maybe keep? The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. This line is a disclaimer about duties; might be considered boilerplate but it's part of job description. Might keep? Safer to keep as it's substantive about duties? It says "This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. The incumbent will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other related duties as assigned by the principal or appropriate administrator. WJCC Public Schools reserves the right to update, revise or change this job description and related duties at any time." This is typical boilerplate but maybe we should drop as it's generic. The instruction says remove legal/EEO boilerplate. This is a disclaimer about duties; could be considered legal. I'd drop it.
We need sections: About the role (Job Summary), Responsibilities (Duties And Responsibilities), Requirements (maybe Minimum Qualifications?), Qualifications (maybe same as Requirements?), Skills (maybe from Minimum Qualifications?), Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We have no explicit Benefits, Pay, Schedule info. So we should NOT include those sections.
We have Supervision Exercised/Received and Working Conditions; these could go under Responsibilities or maybe a separate section like Working Conditions? Not in allowed headings. Could incorporate into Responsibilities or maybe a separate section like "Working Conditions" not allowed. So we should incorporate into Responsibilities or maybe a new section like "Requirements"? But better to keep within Responsibilities.
We need to use
for sections: 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. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Content:
- FLSA Status: Non-exempt Grade: U02, U03 (Unified) Revision Date: January 1, 2016 Location: Elementary
- Job Summary: Assists the teacher in implementing instructional procedures and objectives. Reinforces and implements instructional activities as prescribed by the teacher to provide additional time for instruction and guidance.
- Duties And Responsibilities: long list.
- Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and/or Abilities Required): list.
- Supervision Exercised: Monitors classroom activities in absence of the teacher.
- Supervision Received: Performs duties under the supervision of principal. Reports directly to the teacher to whom assigned; receives annual performance evaluation from principal.
- Working Conditions And Physical Requirements: description.
- This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties... (boilerplate maybe but it's substantive? It's a disclaimer; we can maybe drop as boilerplate? It's generic but maybe keep? The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. This line is a disclaimer about duties; might be considered boilerplate but it's part of job description. Might keep? Safer to keep as it's substantive about duties? It says "This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. The incumbent will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other related duties as assigned by the principal or appropriate administrator. WJCC Public Schools reserves the right to update, revise or change this job description and related duties at any time." This is typical boilerplate but maybe we should drop as it's generic. The instruction says remove legal/EEO boilerplate. This is a disclaimer about duties; could be considered legal. I'd drop it.
We need sections: About the role (Job Summary), Responsibilities (Duties And Responsibilities), Requirements (maybe Minimum Qualifications?), Qualifications (maybe same as Requirements?), Skills (maybe from Minimum Qualifications?), Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We have no explicit Benefits, Pay, Schedule info. So we should NOT include those sections.
We have Supervision Exercised/Received and Working Conditions; these could go under Responsibilities or maybe a separate section like Working Conditions? Not in allowed headings. Could incorporate into Responsibilities or maybe a separate section like "Working Conditions" not allowed. So we should incorporate into Responsibilities or maybe a new section like "Requirements"? But better to keep within Responsibilities.
We need to use for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We need to preserve all substantive info; not invent or summarize away detail.
Thus we need to extract the Job Summary as prose
under
About the role
.
Duties: list each duty as - . The duties list is long; we need to preserve each bullet. The original is a paragraph with semicolons separating duties. We need to split into list items. Must not lose any detail.
Let's parse duties:
"Prepares classroom materials in accordance with needs of children; assumes partial responsibility for arranging and decorating the classroom environments to fit the needs of, and interests of, young developmentally delayed, emotionally disturbed, learning disabled, and/or other special education students. Encourages and assists students develop self-help skills.Works with individuals, small groups, or large groups of students as assigned by teacher.Collects data on student performance and progress as directed by the teacher.Observes and monitors students' progress and emotional behavior. Assists in maintaining complete and accurate student records.Accompanies students to and from lunchroom, buses, and on field trips. Escorts children as needed to classroom activities.Assists the teacher with classroom discipline. Assists classroom teacher in providing for the social, emotional, and physical needs of special education students. Takes appropriate action in instances of special medical needs.Monitors students during assigned periods within a variety of school environments for the purpose of maintaining a safe and positive learning environment.Assists students in preparing for the transition from the self-contained class to the mainstream when appropriate.Provides input to the teacher in planning daily and long-range programs for students.Assists in skills practice and reinforcement activities previously introduced by the teacher, either individually or in small groups.Performs clerical duties, including preparing and operating audiovisual equipment, photocopying, laminating, typing, and other computer related skills. Checks and updates files, attendance, and other classroom operation records. Maintains a clean and orderly environment.Participates in school and district staff development programs and scheduled meetings.Models the WJCC Strategic Plan Values: Individualism, Integrity, Innovation, Accountability and Collaboration.Performs other duties as assigned."
We need to split each sentence or clause separated by periods or semicolons. Let's create list items for each distinct duty.
I'll break:
1. Prepares classroom materials in accordance with needs of children.
2. Assumes partial responsibility for arranging and decorating the classroom environments to fit the needs of, and interests of, young developmentally delayed, emotionally disturbed, learning disabled, and/or other special education students.
3. Encourages and assists students develop self-help skills.
4. Works with individuals, small groups, or large groups of students as assigned by teacher.
5. Collects data on student performance and progress as directed by the teacher.
6. Observes and monitors students' progress and emotional behavior.
7. Assists in maintaining complete and accurate student records.
8. Accompanies students to and from lunchroom, buses, and on field trips.
9. Escorts children as needed to classroom activities.
10. Assists the teacher with classroom discipline.
11. Assists classroom teacher in providing for the social, emotional, and physical needs of special education students.
12. Takes appropriate action in instances of special medical needs.
13. Monitors students during assigned periods within a variety of school environments for the purpose of maintaining a safe and positive learning environment.
14. Assists students in preparing for the transition from the self-contained class to the mainstream when appropriate.
15. Provides input to the teacher in planning daily and long-range programs for students.
16. Assists in skills practice and reinforcement activities previously introduced by the teacher, either individually or in small groups.
17. Performs clerical duties, including preparing and operating audiovisual equipment, photocopying, laminating, typing, and other computer related skills.
18. Checks and updates files, attendance, and other classroom operation records.
19. Maintains a clean and orderly environment.
20. Participates in school and district staff development programs and scheduled meetings.
21. Models the WJCC Strategic Plan Values: Individualism, Integrity, Innovation, Accountability and Collaboration.
22. Performs other duties as assigned.
Now Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and/or Abilities Required):
List:
- High school diploma or GED certificate.
- As of September 1, 2014, all exceptional education instructional assistants must complete the required autism paraprofessional training as outlined by the Virginia Department of Education and provide documentation to Human Resources to be eligible for employment.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Basic computing and spelling skills required.
- Concern for general welfare of children, ability to accept and support all children, and maintain confidentiality.
- Experience in nursing, childcare, or special education preferred.
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships with teachers, parents, students, and administrators.
- Patience, flexibility, dependability, interest, punctuality, and ability to follow directions.
- Special Education Aide II: completion of a minimum of 48 hours of college credit.
We could separate into Requirements and Qualifications and Skills. But we need to decide which sections to include. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine into one section "Requirements" that includes qualifications and skills. Or we could have "Qualifications" for education/certification, and "Skills" for abilities. But we risk thin sections. Let's make two sections: "Qualifications" for education/training, and "Skills" for abilities. That seems reasonable.
Qualifications: High school diploma or GED certificate; autism paraprofessional training completion; Special Education Aide II: 48 hours college credit (maybe that's a qualification). Also maybe experience preferred? That's more qualification.
Skills: Ability to communicate clearly; basic computing and spelling; concern for welfare; ability to maintain relationships; patience, flexibility, dependability, interest, punctuality, ability to follow directions; experience in nursing, childcare, or special education preferred (maybe skill). But we can keep as list.
We need to avoid filler like "Preferred" maybe it's okay.
We also have Supervision Exercised/Received and Working Conditions. Could incorporate into Responsibilities as additional duties? Might be better to add a section "Working Conditions" but not allowed. Could add under Responsibilities as extra items.
Let's add supervision and working conditions as additional list items under Responsibilities.
Supervision Exercised: Monitors classroom activities in absence of the teacher.
Supervision Received: Performs duties under the supervision of principal. Reports directly to the teacher to whom assigned; receives annual performance evaluation from principal.
Working Conditions And Physical Requirements: Subject to a wide variety of behavioral situations associated with developmentally-delayed students. Duties are normally performed in a school/classroom environment. Duties may be occasionally performed on field trips away from school. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud. Duties may involve risk resulting from attending to students' physical or sanitation/hygiene needs. Significant standing; some walking, moving, climbing, carrying, bending, kneeling, crawling, reaching, handling, pushing and pulling. Must have the ability to lift or move 50 lbs.
We can add these as list items.
Now we need to output only HTML fragment.
Structure:
About the role
Assists the teacher in implementing instructional procedures and objectives. Reinforces and implements instructional activities as prescribed by the teacher to provide additional time for instruction and guidance.
Responsibilities
- Prepares classroom materials in accordance with needs of children.
- Assumes partial responsibility for arranging and decorating the classroom environments to fit the needs of, and interests of, young developmentally delayed, emotionally disturbed, learning disabled, and/or other special education students.
- Encourages and assists students develop self-help skills.
- Works with individuals, small groups, or large groups of students as assigned by teacher.
- Collects data on student performance and progress as directed by the teacher.
- Observes and monitors students' progress and emotional behavior.
- Assists in maintaining complete and accurate student records.
- Accompanies students to and from lunchroom, buses, and on field trips.
- Escorts children as needed to classroom activities.
- Assists the teacher with classroom discipline.
- Assists classroom teacher in providing for the social, emotional, and physical needs of special education students.
- Takes appropriate action in instances of special medical needs.
- Monitors students during assigned periods within a variety of school environments for the purpose of maintaining a safe and positive learning environment.
- Assists students in preparing for the transition from the self-contained class to the mainstream when appropriate.
- Provides input to the teacher in planning daily and long-range programs for students.
- Assists in skills practice and reinforcement activities previously introduced by the teacher, either individually or in small groups.
- Performs clerical duties, including preparing and operating audiovisual equipment, photocopying, lamin
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive info; not invent or summarize away detail. Thus we need to extract the Job Summary as prose
under
About the role
. Duties: list each duty as - . The duties list is long; we need to preserve each bullet. The original is a paragraph with semicolons separating duties. We need to split into list items. Must not lose any detail.
Let's parse duties:
"Prepares classroom materials in accordance with needs of children; assumes partial responsibility for arranging and decorating the classroom environments to fit the needs of, and interests of, young developmentally delayed, emotionally disturbed, learning disabled, and/or other special education students. Encourages and assists students develop self-help skills.Works with individuals, small groups, or large groups of students as assigned by teacher.Collects data on student performance and progress as directed by the teacher.Observes and monitors students' progress and emotional behavior. Assists in maintaining complete and accurate student records.Accompanies students to and from lunchroom, buses, and on field trips. Escorts children as needed to classroom activities.Assists the teacher with classroom discipline. Assists classroom teacher in providing for the social, emotional, and physical needs of special education students. Takes appropriate action in instances of special medical needs.Monitors students during assigned periods within a variety of school environments for the purpose of maintaining a safe and positive learning environment.Assists students in preparing for the transition from the self-contained class to the mainstream when appropriate.Provides input to the teacher in planning daily and long-range programs for students.Assists in skills practice and reinforcement activities previously introduced by the teacher, either individually or in small groups.Performs clerical duties, including preparing and operating audiovisual equipment, photocopying, laminating, typing, and other computer related skills. Checks and updates files, attendance, and other classroom operation records. Maintains a clean and orderly environment.Participates in school and district staff development programs and scheduled meetings.Models the WJCC Strategic Plan Values: Individualism, Integrity, Innovation, Accountability and Collaboration.Performs other duties as assigned."
We need to split each sentence or clause separated by periods or semicolons. Let's create list items for each distinct duty.
I'll break:
1. Prepares classroom materials in accordance with needs of children.
2. Assumes partial responsibility for arranging and decorating the classroom environments to fit the needs of, and interests of, young developmentally delayed, emotionally disturbed, learning disabled, and/or other special education students.
3. Encourages and assists students develop self-help skills.
4. Works with individuals, small groups, or large groups of students as assigned by teacher.
5. Collects data on student performance and progress as directed by the teacher.
6. Observes and monitors students' progress and emotional behavior.
7. Assists in maintaining complete and accurate student records.
8. Accompanies students to and from lunchroom, buses, and on field trips.
9. Escorts children as needed to classroom activities.
10. Assists the teacher with classroom discipline.
11. Assists classroom teacher in providing for the social, emotional, and physical needs of special education students.
12. Takes appropriate action in instances of special medical needs.
13. Monitors students during assigned periods within a variety of school environments for the purpose of maintaining a safe and positive learning environment.
14. Assists students in preparing for the transition from the self-contained class to the mainstream when appropriate.
15. Provides input to the teacher in planning daily and long-range programs for students.
16. Assists in skills practice and reinforcement activities previously introduced by the teacher, either individually or in small groups.
17. Performs clerical duties, including preparing and operating audiovisual equipment, photocopying, laminating, typing, and other computer related skills.
18. Checks and updates files, attendance, and other classroom operation records.
19. Maintains a clean and orderly environment.
20. Participates in school and district staff development programs and scheduled meetings.
21. Models the WJCC Strategic Plan Values: Individualism, Integrity, Innovation, Accountability and Collaboration.
22. Performs other duties as assigned.
Now Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and/or Abilities Required):
List:
- High school diploma or GED certificate.
- As of September 1, 2014, all exceptional education instructional assistants must complete the required autism paraprofessional training as outlined by the Virginia Department of Education and provide documentation to Human Resources to be eligible for employment.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing.
- Basic computing and spelling skills required.
- Concern for general welfare of children, ability to accept and support all children, and maintain confidentiality.
- Experience in nursing, childcare, or special education preferred.
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships with teachers, parents, students, and administrators.
- Patience, flexibility, dependability, interest, punctuality, and ability to follow directions.
- Special Education Aide II: completion of a minimum of 48 hours of college credit.
We could separate into Requirements and Qualifications and Skills. But we need to decide which sections to include. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine into one section "Requirements" that includes qualifications and skills. Or we could have "Qualifications" for education/certification, and "Skills" for abilities. But we risk thin sections. Let's make two sections: "Qualifications" for education/training, and "Skills" for abilities. That seems reasonable.
Qualifications: High school diploma or GED certificate; autism paraprofessional training completion; Special Education Aide II: 48 hours college credit (maybe that's a qualification). Also maybe experience preferred? That's more qualification.
Skills: Ability to communicate clearly; basic computing and spelling; concern for welfare; ability to maintain relationships; patience, flexibility, dependability, interest, punctuality, ability to follow directions; experience in nursing, childcare, or special education preferred (maybe skill). But we can keep as list.
We need to avoid filler like "Preferred" maybe it's okay.
We also have Supervision Exercised/Received and Working Conditions. Could incorporate into Responsibilities as additional duties? Might be better to add a section "Working Conditions" but not allowed. Could add under Responsibilities as extra items.
Let's add supervision and working conditions as additional list items under Responsibilities.
Supervision Exercised: Monitors classroom activities in absence of the teacher.
Supervision Received: Performs duties under the supervision of principal. Reports directly to the teacher to whom assigned; receives annual performance evaluation from principal.
Working Conditions And Physical Requirements: Subject to a wide variety of behavioral situations associated with developmentally-delayed students. Duties are normally performed in a school/classroom environment. Duties may be occasionally performed on field trips away from school. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud. Duties may involve risk resulting from attending to students' physical or sanitation/hygiene needs. Significant standing; some walking, moving, climbing, carrying, bending, kneeling, crawling, reaching, handling, pushing and pulling. Must have the ability to lift or move 50 lbs.
We can add these as list items.
Now we need to output only HTML fragment.
Structure:
About the role
Assists the teacher in implementing instructional procedures and objectives. Reinforces and implements instructional activities as prescribed by the teacher to provide additional time for instruction and guidance.
Responsibilities
- Prepares classroom materials in accordance with needs of children.
- Assumes partial responsibility for arranging and decorating the classroom environments to fit the needs of, and interests of, young developmentally delayed, emotionally disturbed, learning disabled, and/or other special education students.
- Encourages and assists students develop self-help skills.
- Works with individuals, small groups, or large groups of students as assigned by teacher.
- Collects data on student performance and progress as directed by the teacher.
- Observes and monitors students' progress and emotional behavior.
- Assists in maintaining complete and accurate student records.
- Accompanies students to and from lunchroom, buses, and on field trips.
- Escorts children as needed to classroom activities.
- Assists the teacher with classroom discipline.
- Assists classroom teacher in providing for the social, emotional, and physical needs of special education students.
- Takes appropriate action in instances of special medical needs.
- Monitors students during assigned periods within a variety of school environments for the purpose of maintaining a safe and positive learning environment.
- Assists students in preparing for the transition from the self-contained class to the mainstream when appropriate.
- Provides input to the teacher in planning daily and long-range programs for students.
- Assists in skills practice and reinforcement activities previously introduced by the teacher, either individually or in small groups.
- Performs clerical duties, including preparing and operating audiovisual equipment, photocopying, lamin