Paraprofessional- L 2/3

Glenwood CSD; Glenwood (IA); Presencial; USD 26.000 - 36.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Glenwood CSD in Glenwood, Iowa seeks a Paraeducator—Level 2/3 to support students with special needs at Northeast Elementary. The role involves assisting the teacher, supervising students, and helping maintain a safe, caring classroom environment.

Requirements include a high school diploma or equivalent; experience with children who have special needs is preferred. This is a full-time position with daily school hours and collaboration with a team of educators and support staff.

Formación

• Prefer previous experience working with children who have special needs.
• High school diploma or equivalent.

Responsabilidades

• Attends training/inservice opportunities as required.
• Keeps information related to individual children and families confidential.
• Check e-mail daily. E-mail teacher progress reports three times per week, for those students you assist in general education classes.
• Performs errands and tasks for students, only if they cannot do it themselves.
• Under supervision of the special education teacher, works with individuals or small groups to work on lessons initially introduced by the special education teacher.
• Accompanies the student(s) as needed when trips to the office or to the school nurse are necessary.
• Establishes as fully as possible a supportive and sympathetic relationship with the student(s) without fostering or encouraging intense emotional involvement.
• Provides personal hygiene activities with students, including appropriate response to various body fluids.
• Assists teacher in maintaining discipline and follows through on prescribed behavioral management programs.

Conocimientos

Special needs experience

Educación

High school diploma or equivalent

Descripción del empleo

Paraprofessional- L 2/3

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Job Details

Position Type: Full-time

Job Description

PARAEDUCATOR-Level 2/3- HS and NE

(Position at Northeast Elementary not available until November 13th)

GLENWOOD COMMUNITY SCHOOLS CLASSIFIED STAFF JOB DESCRIPTION

Position: Paraeducator--Level 2/3

Qualifications

• Prefer previous experience working with children who have specialneeds
• High school diploma or equivalent

Essential Function: Depends on specific position

Reports To: Principal, special education teacher, general education teacher, and support staff

Consults With: Special education teacher, and general education teacher

Position Goal: To assist the teacher in maintaining developmentally appropriate classroom activities and learning environment so that children withspecial needs may learn effectively and reach their maximum potential.

Performance Responsibilities

• Attendance is necessary to be successful in this position.
• Demonstrates respect for the dignity of the sensitivity to the needs of students withdisabilities.
• Ability to develop effective working relationships with students, staff, and the schoolcommunity.
• Attends training/inservice opportunities as required.
• Keeps information related to individual children and families confidential.
• Check e-mail daily. E-mail teacher progress reports three times per week, for thosestudents you assist in general education classes.
• Performs errands and tasks for students, only if they cannot do it themselves.
• Under supervision of the special education teacher, works with individuals or small groups to work on lessons initially introduced by the special education teacher.
• Accompanies the student(s) as needed when trips to the office or to the schoolnurseare necessary.
• Establishes as fully as possible a supportive and sympathetic relationship with thestudent(s) without fostering or encouraging intense emotional involvement.
• Serves as a resource person, if and when requested, to the child's staffing team conferring about one of the students to whom assigned.
• Ability to regularly lift 40 pounds and push/pull up to 100 pounds.
• Assists the student(s) to whom assigned in such physical tasks as putting on andtaking off outerwear, moving from room to room, and using the lavatory.
• Assists with loading and unloading of buses.
• Lifts or assists with lifting students from wheelchairs to changing table, beds, orother designated areas.
• Collects and records data according to established criteria determined by theclassroom teacher.
• Accompanies students individually or in-groups on mobility functions to reinforce lifeand work skills.
• Takes all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students, equipment,materials and facilities.
• Sanitizes classrooms and equipment using approved materials and methods.
• Provides personal hygiene activities with students, including appropriate response tovarious body fluids.
• Assists teacher in maintaining discipline and follows through on prescribedbehavioral management programs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Terms of Employment:Days students are in school. Wage schedules shall be subject to annual review and modification by the Glenwood BoardOfEducation or through the collective bargaining process, where oneexists.

Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Classified Staff Evaluation.

Contact Information

• Nicole Carnazzo
• 103 Central
• Glenwood, Iowa 51534
• Phone: [phone]
• Email: [e-mail]