Paraeducator- Deaf/Hard of Hearing(S20D) John O'Connell HS

San Francisco Unified School District; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 52,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

The San Francisco Unified School District is seeking staff to assist certificated personnel by implementing lesson plans (including reviewing and correcting pupil work), participating in parent conferences, proctoring exams, keeping records, and operating instructional equipment and software in classrooms.

Under supervision of a special education teacher or administrator, the employee must work with deaf/hearing-impaired students to translate between oral language and sign, and to facilitate

Qualifications

• Assisting certificated staff in classroom activities and record-keeping.
• Translating between oral language and sign for deaf/hearing-impaired students.

Responsibilities

• Implement lesson plans and review/correct pupil work.
• Proctor exams, participate in conferences, keep records, and operate instructional technology in classrooms.

Job description

The San Francisco Unified School District is the seventh largest school district in California, serving more than 51,000 students who speak more than 44 documented languages across 136 schools in San Francisco every year. Our mission is to provide each and every student the quality instruction and equitable support required to thrive in the 21st century. We aim for every student who attends SFUSD schools to discover his or her spark, along with a strong sense of self and purpose, and that all students graduate from high school ready for college and career, and equipped with the skills, capacities and dispositions outlined in SFUSD’s Graduate Profile.

The SFUSD community is unified by our Core Values:

• Student-centered: We put students’ needs first
• Fearless: We persist through challenges
• United: We celebrate and build on each other’s strengths
• Social Justice: We stand with those most vulnerable in our community
• Diversity-driven: We respect and seek to understand each person

The District is also committed to sustainability every day with mindful practices designed to conserve resources, fight climate change, reduce carbon use and promote environmental stewardship.

Representative Duties- Incumbents may perform any combination of the essential functions shown below. This position description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, knowledge, or abilities associated with this classification, but is intended to reflect the principal job elements accurately.

The employee assists certificated staff by: implementing lesson plans (activities which include reviewing and correcting the work of pupils), participating in parent conferences, proctoring examinations, keeping relevant records, operating instructional equipment and appropriate software in instructional settings, as well as performing related duties as required.

Under the supervision of a special education teacher/administrator, employee must work with a deaf/hearing-impaired population to perform translations from oral language to sign and from sign to oral language. Duties include assisting in the implementation of the curriculum by facilitating communication designed to serve the deaf/hearing impaired pupil population.