Pre-School Paraeducator

Help to meet the diverse needs of our families in our program. Inspire children to be lifelong learners, implementing curriculum that promotes social, emotional, physical, verbal, and cognitive development. Committed to making their school successful and know that creating meaningful relationships with children, parents, and families play a crucial role in that success. Teach and actively monitor children in the classroom. Become familiar with and implement positive discipline strategies, and curriculum when planning and setting up the classroom environment. Perform screenings and assessments on all children according to a particular time frame. Conduct home visits (Head Start) and parent-teacher conferences throughout the school year. Integrate and analyze child assessment data for planning. Includes any other duties to help drive our vision, fulfill our mission, or support our organizational values.

Ability to create a positive working environment for both children and colleagues.

• Physical capability, strength, and coordination adequate to work with preschool children
• including kneeling, stooping, bending, and sitting on the floor.
• Word processing, database, Internet, spreadsheets, and email.
• Ability to assist in maintaining computerized records for child/family tracking system.
• Ability to visually assess the health and behaviors of children.
• Assist with frequent significant decisions to assure developmental progress of children.
• Demonstrated ability to supervise preschool children and ensure a safe learning
• environment including the ability to monitor and respond to events always going on in
• classroom, outdoor play areas and on field trips. This includes the ability to move quickly to respond to very active children and to redirect or physically remove a child to ensure their safety or the safety of others in the environment.
• Ability to respond appropriately (mentally and physically) to an emergency or a crisis.
• Occasional driving for training and job responsibility requirements.
• occasionally placing children into seats and
• ability to carry or drag a child in an emergency to a safe area.
• Occasional climbing steps to enter and exit bus.

Must have Adult and Pediatric CPR and First Aid Certifications within 30 days from date of hire.

Classroom Management, Intentional Planning, and Meaningful Assessment

• Support the lead teacher in organizing and preparing opportunities for children and
• families to create meaningful connections with community.
• Always provides a safe environment with supervision of children, consistently applying
• active supervision and emergency procedures.
• Assist with planning intentional on-going experiences that enhance the cognitive, social, emotional, linguistic, and physical development of young children in cooperation with the Lead teacher.
• Assist with submitting weekly lessons and unit plans that support each child’s identified goals, in cooperation with the Lead Teacher, which reflects an integrated approach across all content areas.
• Learning, and Head Start standards.
• image of the child.
• data, developmental screening, behavior intervention plans, and conference notes.
• Engagement and Partnerships
• Assist the lead teacher with planning for, utilizing and training volunteers for the classroom, playground, gross motor area and field trips.
• Assist lead teacher with providing parents opportunities to give input into the daily curriculum and document input on lesson plans.
• Follow all agency policies and procedures.
• Organize time to allow for planning, preparation, and parent/teacher conferences.
• Responsive to mentor/coaching/management feedback. Provide customer service in reception, greet, and direct visitors at the site.
• Model the respectful workplace policy when interacting with Paladin clients, community members, and colleagues.
• Must be responsible, able to handle confidential material, able to organize effectively and able to work independently.
• Training responsibilities
• Maintain current, valid driver’s license and liability insurance always on any personal vehicle used to conduct Paladin business.
• Obtain and keep current Adult and Pediatric CPR and First Aid certifications.
• Complete 15 credit hours in ECE and a minimum of 20 hours continuing education, based on individualized professional development plan.