Duties
POSITION GOAL: Assists the teacher in daily classroom instruction.
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Model teacher’s instructional methods when working with individual and groups of students.
- Provide tutorial help for students.
- Observe teacher’s interaction with children who have special learning needs, and engage in similar instructional practices.
- Observe student academic and social-emotional behaviors, monitor charges, and report these observations to the certified classroom teacher.
- Assist with de-escalation by removing students from the classroom setting and utilizing identified calming areas and incorporating them back into the learning environment.
- Assist with maintaining order within the classroom by following established procedures for behavior management.
- Assume responsibility for the safety and well being of the students while on school grounds and in non-academic activities (such as lunch, hallway passing, etc).
- Attend meetings and participate in professional development programs.
- Assume clerical functions as needed, to include, but not limited to taking attendance, duplication of materials, preparation of newsletters, record keeping and monthly reports.
- Communicate with students’ parents/guardians as requested.
- Perform other duties and assume other responsibilities as may be assigned by the certificated classroom teacher.
KNOWLEDGE AND CRITICAL SKILLS:
- Trained in Crisis Prevention (CPI) to identify warning signs that can lead to a crisis and how to utilize verbal and nonverbal techniques to defuse a situation before it can become violent..(training possibly through PPS)
- Trained in De-escalation to gain skills on remaining calm, managing your own response to prevent physical confrontations..(training possibly through PPS)
- Trained in physical restraint interventions and personal safety techniques, which are designed to maximize the safety of everyone involved in a crisis situation.(training possibly through PPS).
Qualifications
QUALIFICATIONS -
* MUST HAVE A VALID ILLINOIS PARAPROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE REGISTERED IN PEORIA COUNTY
* MUST PASS A PRE-EMPLOYMENT PHYSICAL, TB TEST, AND DRUG/ALCOHOL SCREENING
* MUST PASS A CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK
SALARY -
* BASED ON EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE, PER THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT
Link to District/Third Party Online Application Web Page
www.psd150.org/employment