Special Education Support Specialist

Searcy School District; Searcy (AR); On-site; USD 18,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

McRae Elementary School in the Searcy School District seeks a Special Education Paraprofessional to assist teachers in supporting students with disabilities under supervision. The role focuses on reinforcing instruction, supervising small groups, and helping with classroom routines and materials.

Strong communication, dependability, and a commitment to confidentiality are essential. You will administer, score, and record assessments as directed; help with lunch, transition times, and library

Qualifications

• High School diploma and required special training.
• Prior job experience.

Responsibilities

• Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
• Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
• Helps students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by teacher.
• Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction.
• Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
• Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
• Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up to date.
• Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and story telling.
• Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
• Assists students in the library or media center.
• Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and make up work, as assigned by the teacher.
• Checks and records student attendance.
• Helps students with their clothing.
• Assists with lunch, snack and cleanup routines.
• Assists with wash-up and toilet routines.
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
• Participates in inservice training programs, as assigned.
• Performs specialized services to students as required by specific responsibilities.

Skills

Prior experience

Education

High School diploma

Job description

McRae Elementary School in the Searcy School District seeks a Special Education Paraprofessional to assist teachers in supporting students with disabilities under supervision. The role focuses on reinforcing instruction, supervising small groups, and helping with classroom routines and materials.

Strong communication, dependability, and a commitment to confidentiality are essential. You will administer, score, and record assessments as directed; help with lunch, transition times, and library