Doty Special Education Paraprofessional 1:1 - Vacancy ID: 169183
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As soon as possible
20.98 / hour
7:30 am - 3:30 pm; Monday-Friday
Full Time
Doty Elementary School is seeking applicants for a paraprofessional to join their Special Education team to provide close one to one supervision for a student. This position will provide close adult supervision for a student one to one during the student day. This position will follow the student should he/she move to a different school within the District. This will be a "to be assigned" position for the 2022-23 school year.
Essential Functions:
Follows the Core Values of the Green Bay Area Public School District as driver of our words and actions.
Excellence, Engagement, Equity, Integrity, and Responsibility
The position will follow the standard Paraprofessional essential functions. The additional Special Education Paraprofessional essential functions are:
1. Provide instructional support by working individually or in small groups of students with learning, cognitive, emotional, or physical disabilities, to reinforce
learning of materials or skills initially introduced and outlined by the Special Education teacher.
2. Assists in devising special strategies for reinforcing learning materials and skills based on the students’ needs, interests, and abilities.
3. Provide behavioral support by assisting teachers in maintaining discipline and encouraging acceptable behavior of students.
4. Assist with personal health care of students including changing diapers, toileting students, changing students’ clothing, showering students, tube feeding, and
catheterizing.
5. Transfer students in and out of holding and on/off buses, vans, etc.
6. Facilitate student’s use of mobility equipment such as leg braces, walkers, mobile standers, and tricycles.
7. Assists teachers on field trips by helping students with physical and behavioral needs, and reinforcing learning situations.
8. Uses physical restraint or seclusion in compliance with state and federal law and District policies and procedures in instances where there is danger to the
student or other students.
9. Responds to the physical and behavioral needs of students in cooperation with the bus driver, during transportation to/from school.
10. Administer first aid and provide basic nursing care as directed or authorized by a school nurse.
11. Assists with playground, lunchroom, noon-hour, and bus supervision.
12. Consults and collaborates with Special Education and Regular Education teachers, participating in IEP's as requested.
13. Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
14. Practice ethical and professional standards of conduct, including confidentiality.
15. Apply work-related legal issues concerning the education of children and youth.
16. Adheres and follows work-related health, safety, and emergency procedures and practices.
17. Maintains confidentiality in verbal, written, and electronic communications.
Working Conditions:
1. Work is predominantly in a classroom, school environment.
2. Work involves frequent disruptions of daily schedule, with flexibility to adjust to continuously changing situations.
3. Work involves frequent deadlines under pressure to complete assigned tasks in a timely manner.
4. Ability to work at a desk, conference table or in meetings of various configurations.
5. Ability to stand and circulate for extended periods of time.
6. Ability to communicate so others will be able to clearly understand normal conversation.
7. Ability to bend, twist, stoop, kneel, run, crawl, and reach in all directions.
8. Ability to lift and carry up to 50 pounds.
In keeping safety and wellness of our staff, students and community our priority, the Green Bay Public School District is temporarily fully digital in our recruitment and engagement processes. This means that during this safer at home time, we will only be facilitating phone and/or virtual interviews for all positions.
QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED
• Education:
*Have at least two years of post-secondary education that is equivalent to at least 48 semester hours from an accredited higher education institution, OR
*Have obtained an associate (or higher) degree, OR
*Have met a rigorous standard of quality and be able to demonstrate, through a formal state or local academic assessment, knowledge of and the ability to assist in instructing reading, writing, and mathematics (or, as appropriate, reading readiness, writing readiness, and mathematics readiness).
•License: (can be ordered after being hired as will need a form from the District)
*Special Education Program Aide License (883), OR
*Any valid Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (WDPI) license.
QUALIFICATIONS DESIRED:
• Education: Associates Degree – Child Development or related field
• Experience:
*Prior experience working with children
Candidate Requirements
- Custom Questions
- Transcripts & Licenses/Certifications