Immediately Need Paraprofessional - Special Education in McLean County, IL
Job title: Paraprofessional - Special Education
Company: McLean County Unit District No. 5
Job description: Teaching Assistant/Special Education
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- Prepares lesson materials, bulletin Board displays, exhibits, equipment, and demonstrations as needed.
- Presents subject matter to students under the direction and guidance of teachers, using lectures, discussions, or supervised role-playing methods.
- Establishes as fully as possible a supportive and sympathetic relationship with the student(s) without fostering or encouraging intense emotional involvement.
- Serves as a resource person, if and when requested, to the student personnel evaluation team conferring about one of the students to whom assigned.
- Supervises students in classrooms, halls, cafeterias, school yards, and gymnasiums, or on field trips.
- Conducts demonstrations to teach such skills as sports, dancing, and handicrafts.
- Distributes teaching materials such as textbooks, workbooks, papers, and pencils to students.
- Distributes tests and homework assignments, and collect them when they are completed.
- Enforces administration policies and rules governing students.
- Grades homework and tests, and computes and records results, using answer sheets or electronic marking devices.
- Completes required reports in a timely manner.
- Teaches socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification and positive reinforcement.
- Works with students with multiple physical, mental, and developmental disabilities.
- Is familiar with and uses adaptive equipment including, communication equipment, wheel chairs, adaptive feeding tools, etc.
- Assists students with self-care, hygiene, and feeding as necessary.
- May be required to perform tasks that students are not able to do, i.e. taking notes, handling materials, holding books, etc.
- May work with/handle resistive students.
- Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
- Maintains a high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
- Assists the classroom teacher in other tasks necessary in maintaining a professional and positive classroom environment, and performs other teacher aide duties as may be assigned by the classroom teacher, administration or Board of Education.
- Must have excellent Oral and Written communication skills to work with teachers, education support personnel, building administrators and the general public.
- Enforce school regulations and policies in a professional manner.
- Ability to maintain good working relationships with fellow employees and pupils.
- Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 lbs.
- Requires employee to have the ability to push/pull up to 10 lbs.
- Must be detailed oriented.