GDA
Job Description
Special Education Paraprofessional
Qualifications:
High School Graduate
Job
Goal: The teaching assistant will provide support services to students at the
direction of the teacher or case manager through one-to-one direct services or
small group work within the classroom whenever possible.
Performance
Responsibilities:
1. To meet with case managers and teachers at the
beginning of the school year and on a regular basis to:
a) discuss specific responsibilities and expectations of
the special education paraprofessional
b) discuss upcoming classroom curriculum goals
c) share knowledge of sensitive issues related to a
student’s ability to perform in the classroom.
2. To work individual with students within the classroom
setting, or small group, at the direction of the teacher, with priority given
to special education students to:
a) reinforce content instruction
b) reinforce directions
c) modify curriculum as necessary for individual needs.
3. To monitor and help implement Individual Education
Plan (IEP) goals, objectives and classroom modifications in conjunction with
teacher and case manager. This may
include correspondence in a home/school communication book.
4. To report to the case manager and teacher regularly to
discuss student progress and needs for program change based on informal
observations and/or specific data collection.
5. To support the social, emotional and behavioral
development of special education students by the following:
a) encouraging appropriate social integration
b) fostering positive self-esteem in the student
c) consistently enforcing the school-wide discipline
policy and specific behavioral goals
d) fostering independents.
6. To act as a facilitator when students are completing
assignments.
7. To assist students in organizational and study skills
such as note taking and recording and completing homework assignments.
8. To provide special education students who are absent
with makeup materials if necessary.
9. Attend meetings such as to develop an Individual
Education Plan (IEP), when necessary.
10. To assume other duties and responsibilities assigned
by principal and special education teacher such as bus and recess duties.
APPROVED: May, 2005