PARAPROFESSIONAL (K-5 SELF CONTAINED SPED)

ParaprofessionalQualifications: Valid paraprofessional license issued by the State of Illinois and registered in Region 07 South Cook ISC. Job Summary: To assist the teacher achieve teaching objectives by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve the objectives of the instructional program. Reports To: Classroom Teacher, Principal, and other administrators. Terms of Employment: Salary, benefits, and work year as established in the Support Staff Contract. Salary Range: $20,918-$25,692; Salary is commensurate with experience and credentials. Pension: IMRFResponsibilities: 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, interest, 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, assembly, play periods, and field trips. Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up to date. Assists with such large groups activities as drill work, reading aloud, and storytelling. 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. Collects and records collection of money. Helps students with their clothing. Helps with lunch, snack and cleanup routines. Assists with wash-up and toilet routines. Alerts the regular teacher to any problems 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 in-service training programs as assigned. Carries out other appropriate activities as assigned by the teacher and/or administrator.