Head Start Learning Center Classroom Paraprofessional - Vacancy ID: 207145

The Green Bay Area Public School District's Head Start program is seeking candidates interested in a Head Start full day paraprofessional position. The Head Start paraprofessional provides support in the classroom and works with the teacher to support our youngest learners.

The position is 7:30 am - 4:00 pm, Monday through Thursday, and 7:30 am - 1:00 pm, Friday. However the hours may vary as you may be assigned to ride the school bus to support students. Your scheduled days of the week and hours are subject to change based upon the educational staffing and safety needs of the District.

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

1. Promotes efforts on diversity, establishes best practices and utilizes skills to remove barriers for students of diverse backgrounds.
2. Creates a favorable professional impact on students, parents, community, and other employees.
3. Maintains confidentiality in verbal, written, and electronic communication.
4. Refers confidential information to the appropriate person. 
5. Follows safe practices and adheres to safety standards.
6. Supports instruction, tutoring and supervision of individual students or small groups of students;
7. Assists with classroom management and monitoring of student behavior;
8. Prepares classroom materials, projects, demonstrations and visual displays;
9. Monitors and scores tests and class assignments;
10. Assists with clerical duties, such as keeping attendance records.
11. Collects fees and performing general housekeeping duties.
12. Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
13. Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
14. 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.
15.Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
16. Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction.
17. Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
18. Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up to date.
19. Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and storytelling.
20. Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
21. Assists students in the library or media center.
22. Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and make-up work, as assigned by the teacher.
23. Helps students with their clothing, wash-up, and toilet routines, as necessary.
24. Assists with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines, as necessary.
25. Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
26. Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
27. Practices ethical and professional standards of conduct, including confidentiality.
28. Applies work-related legal issues concerning the education of children and youth.
29. Adheres and follows work-related health, safety, and emergency procedures and practices.
30. Maintains confidentiality in verbal, written, and electronic communication.
31. Refers confidential information to the appropriate person.
32. Rides the bus to support students as assigned by Supervisor.
33. Performs all other duties as assigned by Supervisor.

Working Conditions:
1. Work is predominantly in 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.

The Green Bay Public School District is keeping safety and wellness of our staff, students and community our priority. This means that we may be facilitating phone and/or virtual interviews for the position.