General Paraeducator

Job Description General Para- TK Program Must have 48 college units or an AA degree or higher Description of Basic Functions and Responsibilities: To assist the teacher to achieve teaching objectives by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole. Typical Duties: • 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
• 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 communications with students
• Assists students in the library or media center
• Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and make-up work, as assigned by teacher
• Checks and records student attendance
• Collects and records collection of money
• Helps students with their clothing
• Assists with lunch, snack and clear-up routines
• Assists with toilet routines
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student
• Serves as chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular

• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers
• Participates in in-service training program, as assigned
• Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships with those contacted in the performance of required duties.

• Knowledge of English usage, vocabulary, grammar and spelling
• Ability to perform moderately difficult clerical work
• Give oral and written direction
• Ability to speak, read, and write in English
• Ability to compute basic math calculations
• Have 48 college units or an AA degree or higher Gilroy USD