Classified Substitute (Non-licensed)

Classified Substitute

A classified substitute replaces a classified employee in the event of their absence. Substitute jobs may be in-person or virtual. Listed are common positions a classified sub may work: paraprofessional, classroom aide, secretary, school health office assistant, and librarian. The 2026-27 school year classified substitute pay is hourly, with a minimum wage based on the specific assignment. This position does not receive benefits. Classified substitutes can select when and where they would like to work (flexible schedule).

After you submit your application, you will be contacted via email to select an interview time. Interviews are hosted in person. Note: If you are a current employee of Thompson School District, please contact substitute technician, Raye Lynn Husmer directly at View phone number on click.appcast.io, View email address on click.appcast.io, as an interview may not be necessary in some cases.

Paraprofessional Substitute General Information

Upon receiving the sub-call, know the assigned site and start and end times. Report to the building Secretary upon arrival. Identify yourself and let them know for whom you are subbing (if you know) and ask them to which room you should report. Go there and find the Special Ed. teacher and let them know the same information. The Spec. Ed. teacher will be your 'boss' for the day. They will give you directions and assignments for the day that may include but aren't limited to:

• Assisting in day-to-day classroom activities
• Maintaining needed student records
• Supervising students (Spec. Ed. or Regular Ed.)
• Assisting certified staff with student's IEP goals and objectives
• Working with small groups or on an individual basis
• Performing some basic clerical duties
• Providing student personal care and/or hygiene at appropriate levels
• Assisting with feeding students at their level of need
• Provide support in community-based activities
• Provide physical assistance at appropriate levels in lifting or transferring students
• Support students in general-ed type classes
• Employ behavioral strategies as instructed by the certified teacher as needed.

A separate Paraprofessional Handbook is available upon request from the district.

Paraprofessional Special Needs

Summary: Responsible for assisting teacher in carrying out IEP goals for high needs students.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned. Maintain IEP goals and ensure compliance in small groups of students in accordance with department and District standards. Provide one on one instruction for students and develop lessons for special occasions or subjects, with teacher's approval. Assist students in the regular classroom and modify to their capability and/or need. Communicate with teachers regarding student needs and progress. Handle clerical tasks directed by teachers such as making copies and decorating bulletin boards. You may assist physically involved students in daily needs (g-tubes, walkers, etc). Collect academic and/or behavioral data. Communicate with regular education teachers as needed. Monitor recesses.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Certificates, Licenses, & Registrations: CPR and First Aid certification preferred.

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk and sit. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Paraprofessional Sied

(Significantly Identifiable Emotional Disability)

Summary: Supervise and redirect social behaviors of students during class, mainstream and unstructured settings.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned. Supervise student behaviors in classroom, specials, and recess/lunch by marking point cards and using redirects. Assist teacher by preparing materials for class, making copies, bulletin boards, and individual student instruction. Supervise students during mainstream classes. Conference students at end of day. Record points and address behavior problems. Provide one on one intervention with students that have behavior problems. File student point cards, intervention paperwork, and documentation of social behavior, conferencing records, and record charts of student's progress. Record any behavioral problems on bus. Remove aggressive and/or violent students from room and place in the quiet room. Monitor behavior. Order Supplies. Restrain aggressive and/or violent students. Record behavior problems.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Certificates, Licenses, & Registrations: None required. CPR and First Aid certifications preferred but not required.

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand or walk. The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb or balance, taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Paraprofessional Early Childhood Classroom

Summary: Assist licensed staff in carrying out goals and programs for children.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned. Teach cognitive, physical, social and emotional skills under direction of licensed staff. Maintain sanitary and health conditions in each classroom as required by Colorado child care licensing. Set-up, prepare, serve and clean-up meals. Assist at risk and special needs children with personal care including feeding, toileting and diapering. Actively coordinate involvement with licensed staff. Maintain records for lunches and attendance. Prepare classroom materials.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb or balance, taste or smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Paraprofessional Special Needs

(Adaptive Aquatic Instruction) Boy's Locker Room

Summary: Responsible for assisting teacher in carrying out adaptive aquatic instruction for high needs students.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned. Work with students individually or in small groups (in the pool) on adapted aquatic instruction, as directed by the Adaptive P.E. teacher. Assist Adaptive P.E. teacher in setting up aquatic equipment.

Assist male students to locker room upon arrival and to buses for departure. Assist with supervision of boy's locker room. Provide necessary assistance for boys (both ambulatory and non-ambulatory) to change clothes and diapers in a timely manner. Assist student with organizing personal items in a locker, taking showers, walking safely to and from the pool deck. Monitor and act upon behavior that could be dangerous to students or others. Assist teachers and staff in safely lifting and transporting non- ambulatory students in and out of pool. Assist teachers and staff by providing proper flotation devices and aquatic equipment as needed and by putting equipment away at the end of class.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Certificates, Licenses, & Registrations: CPR and First Aid certification preferred.

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk and sit. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move

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