Special Education Paraeducator
New Canaan Public Schools
Special Education Paraeducator
South Elementary School SPECIAL EDUCATION PARAEDUCATOR (10 months) Available October 2026
POSITION SUMMARY
To provide a well-organized, smoothly functioning class environment in which students can take full advantage of the instructional program and available resource materials. The Special Education Paraeducator assists teacher by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for the individual students.
Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of materials 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 the 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.
Supervises students during lunch, recess, emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, field trips, and other situations.
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.
Collects and records collection of money.
Helps students with their clothing.
Assists with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines.
Assists with wash-up and toilet routines.
Alerts regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
Serves as a 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 the students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
Participates in in-service training programs, as assigned.
Perform other duties as responsibilities as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor's degree required. Experience working with Autism preferred. Experience with elementary aged students preferred. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.
To Apply: Please complete an online application on our district website and upload a cover letter and resume. Salary information is available in the Paraeduator union contract on the district website.
$20 - $25 per hour
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