Paraeducator

Paraprofessional Educators

Job Title: Paraprofessional - Reports To: Principal

Work Days: 9 months (187 days) - Salary: $23,000 and up

Job Goal: To work with staff, students, and community to ensure a "high quality" educational program overall, implementing the school's mission, vision, and strategic goals. To assist the principal in ensuring that we create an environment that is not only safe and nurturing, but one with high expectations and accountability for faculty, staff, students, and parents.

The duties include, but are not limited to:

• Administers/scores/records achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
• Assists the students to whom assigned in such physical tasks as putting on and taking off of outerwear, moving from room to room, and using the lavatory.
• Assists students with basic physical needs such as toileting, diapering, clothing changes, personal hygiene, feeding, or prescribed exercise.
• Assisting students with wheelchairs, braces, and other appliances and equipment.
• Reads to and listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
• Performs simple errands and tasks for students such as sharpening pencils, carrying lunch tray, and similar tasks.
• Works with individual students and/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 materials or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
• Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
• Assists with individuals and groups of handicapped students to control behavior and assist with instruction.
• Accompanies the students to whom assigned when boarding and exiting the bus, or when trips to the office or school nurse are necessary.
• Establishes as fully as possible a supportive and sympathetic relationship with the students without fostering or encouraging intense emotional involvement.
• Serves as a resource person if and when requested to the student personnel evaluation team conferring about one of the students to whom assigned.
• Assists the teacher in supervising students while they are on the playground, entering and leaving the building, and in the cafeteria.
• Checks and records student attendance, assists students in the library, media center, or computer lab when needed.
• Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and make-up work, as assigned by the teacher.
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problem 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 a high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students.
• Participates in in-service training programs as assigned.
• Performs any other duties as assigned by the Administration and the Supervising Teacher.

Qualifications:

• Must have completed at least two years of study at an institution of higher education, which may be accomplished by documented successful completion of 48 semester hours at a regionally accredited institution of higher education; OR
• Must have obtained an Associate's degree, which may be accomplished by documented successful completion of 64 semester hours at a regionally accredited institution of higher education.
• Must possess academic competence in language and mathematical skills.

Start Date: July 26, 2025

Duty Days: 189

Reports To: PRINCIPAL

**Applicants selected for classified positions must undergo (or have undergone) an ABI/FBI criminal history background check (fingerprinting administered through sites selected and approved by the MCPSS and State of Alabama Education Department) and be declared suitable and fit to teach under state law.