PARAPROFESSIONAL SPED (self contained)
$20.92k - $25.69kChicago Heights Fire Department
Position Type:
Support Staff/Paraprofessional Date Posted:
10/15/2025 Location:
Chicago Heights Middle School Date Available:
Immediate Hire Closing Date:
10/21/2025 QUALIFICATIONS: Valid paraprofessional license issued by the State of Illinois and registered in Region 07 South Cook ISC4
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: IMRF RESPONSIBILITIES:
Attachment(s):
Support Staff/Paraprofessional Date Posted:
10/15/2025 Location:
Chicago Heights Middle School Date Available:
Immediate Hire Closing Date:
10/21/2025 QUALIFICATIONS: Valid paraprofessional license issued by the State of Illinois and registered in Region 07 South Cook ISC4
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: IMRF RESPONSIBILITIES:
- 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.
Attachment(s):
- Employee Benefits Summary
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