Duties
Limestone Walters CCSD #316 has an immediate opening for a special education paraprofessional starting December 2025 and continuing for the 2025-2026 school year. This position is responsible for assisting the special education team in achieving objectives by working with the class, small groups, or individual students to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole. We are looking for a candidate who will support a positive learning environment that promotes the intellectual, personal, and social development of all students. This is a salary position that is full time (7:30am-2:45pm). Join our team for the opportunity to experience life as a LW Rocket.
- Discusses assigned duties with special education teachers in order to coordinate instructional efforts.
- 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.
- Tutors and assists children individually or in small groups in order to help them master assignments and to reinforce learning concepts presented by teachers.
- Supervises students in classrooms, halls, cafeterias, school yards, and gymnasiums, or on field trips.
- Serves as a resource person, if and when requested, to the student personnel evaluation team conferring about one of the students to whom assigned.
- Distributes teaching materials such as textbooks, workbooks, papers, and pencils to students.
- Distributes tests and homework assignments, and collects 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 special education teachers in other tasks necessary in maintaining a professional and positive classroom environment, and performs other teacher aide duties as may be assigned by staff, administration, or Board of Education.
Salary/Benefits
$20,600 and Health Benefits provided
How to Apply
Applicants would need to complete and pass a background check prior to employment. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position has been filled. Interested parties should send a letter of interest, resume, credentials, and college transcripts, along with an application which can be found at: https://www.limestonewalters.com/page/employment to: Mrs. Stefanie Pitzer, Principal, spitzer@limestonewalters.com