Looking for Paraprofessional in Michigan
Job title: Paraprofessional
Company: Kalamazoo Resa
Job description:
- Communicates, collaborates, and cooperates with colleagues, supervisors, and students.
- Assists teacher in maintaining discipline and other classroom functions.
- Assists with set up of classroom and prepares materials for specialized instructional units.
- Handles attendance reports and related clerical functions with the teacher.
- Assists in assembling/hanging materials on bulletin boards and keeping displays current.
- May escort children to and from various rooms in school building.
- Assists instructional personnel with the development and presentation of learning materials and instructional exercises.
- Tutor students individually or in small groups to reinforce and follow up learning activity.
- Files, types or uses copy machine.
- Assists in administering pre and post-testing.
- Monitors student classroom academic testing results and correlates that information to the planning for the students.
- Keeps daily logs for every student and monitors daily.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Regular and consistent attendance.
- Must have knowledge of and comply with the policies and procedures contained in the Portage Public Schools Employee Handbook.
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must meet the definition of Highly Qualified as defined by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act by possessing one or more of the following:
- Excellent organization skills and easily follows directions
- Excellent attendance patterns and strong work ethic
- Ability to work easily and effectively with small groups of children
- Demonstrated excellent abilities in the area of interpersonal communication
- A high degree of patience, ability and willingness to learn new skills and take direction
- Willingness to work with a team to maintain best practice supplemental education system