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Paraeducator for Special Needs
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We are seeking a highly skilled and dedicated Paraeducator to join our team at Fayette County Public Schools. As a Paraeducator, you will play a vital role in supporting our students with special needs, providing them with the necessary assistance and accommodations to ensure their academic and personal success.
Key Responsibilities- Assist certified teachers in implementing instructional practices, transitional activities, and maintaining a safe and supportive instructional environment.
- Implement strategies and procedures developed by teachers to maintain safe, supportive, and inclusive learning environments.
- Assist teachers and related service professionals in carrying out health-related procedures required by students who have special health care needs.
- Keep student data current and report concerns to teacher when they arise.
- Under the guidance and supervision of a teacher, effectively implement learning strategies, prompting procedures, and other systematic instructional procedures in school and non-school settings.
- Implement teacher-developed plans or strategies that enhance the fluency, maintenance, and generalization of academic skills.
- Assist teachers with community-based instruction.
- Use grammatically correct language, including age-appropriate vocabulary, first-person language, and reinforcement procedures.
- Perform routine clerical duties, such as preparation of instructional classroom materials and maintaining classroom records.
- Assist teachers in monitoring student progress regarding academic/cognitive development, social development, and behavior.
- Assist teachers and other professionals in maintaining student records required by federal and state law and regulations.
- Implement teacher-developed behavior plans and techniques that adhere to laws, regulations, and procedural safeguards concerning the management of student behaviors.
- Monitor and assist students in non-academic learning environments, such as lunchrooms, study halls, and playgrounds.
- Direct group activities of students as assigned and assist in lunchroom duties as assigned.
- Assist in overseeing students while in regular class, labs, or other activities, providing them with the necessary materials needed to participate.
- Follow teacher instructions and implement team decisions.
- Contribute relevant, objective information to teachers and other school professionals to facilitate planning, problem-solving, and decision-making processes.
- Maintain confidentiality of individual students and their families, as well as all student educational records.
- Perform assigned responsibilities under the supervision of the teachers in a professional and ethical manner established by the district, agency, state, or professional organization.
- Participate with administrators, consultants, and/or other professionals in designing and implementing comprehensive professional development activities for paraprofessionals.
- Assist in administering diagnostic and other tests and record test information.
- Read, understand, and assist in implementing, recording, and monitoring assigned students' IEPs.
- Assist students to and from activities, loading, unloading, and/or riding the bus, and assist in preparation as required.
- Assist students by providing proper examples, emotional support, a friendly attitude, and general guidance.
- Provide support to the teacher and student by creating an environment that is conducive to learning.
- Conference with the teacher/case manager concerning programs and materials to meet student needs.
- Assure the health and safety of students by following health and safety practices and regulations, including PBIS and de-escalation techniques.
- Maintain regular attendance and report your absence to the teacher and in the absence reporting system as specified by the district.
- Minimum college credit hours or successful completion of the Kentucky Paraeducator Assessment or completion of an Associate's Degree and experience working with youth in an organized setting and some instructional experience in a classroom environment working with children and parents with special needs, multi-cultural and multi-ethnic backgrounds.
- Knowledge of basic subjects taught in District Schools, including arithmetic, grammar, spelling, language, and reading.
- Safe practices in classroom and playground activities.
- Interpersonal skills using tact, patience, and courtesy.
- Basic record-keeping techniques.
- Work is performed while standing, sitting, and/or walking.
- Requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision, and hearing.
- Requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations.
- Requires bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, reaching, running.
- Must be able to lift one-third of their body weight, not to exceed pounds.
