Special Needs Paraeducator na Gilroy Unified School District

Job Description

Description of Basic Functions and Responsibilities: To assist the teacher to achieve teaching objectives by working with
individual students or small groups to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole.

Typical Duties:
• Administers, scores and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students
• Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher
• Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests and abilities
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes
• Helps students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by teacher
• Distributes and collects workbooks, papers and other materials for instruction
• Guides independent study, enrichment work and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher

• Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods and field trips
• Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud and story telling
• Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communications with students
• Assists students in the library or media center
• Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and make-up work, as assigned by teacher
• Checks and records student attendance
• Collects and records collection of money
• Helps students with their clothing
• Assists with lunch, snack and clear-up routines
• Assists with clean up and toilet routines
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student
• Serves as chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers
• Participates in in-service training program, as assigned
• Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships with those contacted in the performance of required duties.

Additional Typical Duties/Requirements for Special Needs Paraeducators:
• Accompanies and assists individual student or small groups of students in vocational education classes and ensures a safe environment for the student
• Assists students on and off special education transportation
• Assists regular classroom teacher to help facilitate mainstreaming of special education students
• Performs duties under the direction of the school nurse relating to special education students
• Manages potentially assaultive behaviors
• Assists with adaptive technology or special equipment for special needs students
• Accompanies students in the community during community-based instruction
• May be asked to assist students in the swimming pool during Adaptive Physical Education

Employment Standards:
• Knowledge of English usage, vocabulary, grammar and spelling
• Ability to perform moderately difficult clerical work
• Give oral and written direction
• Ability to speak, read, and write in English
• Ability to compute basic math calculations
• Have 48 college units or an AA degree or higher

STATEMENT OF NON-DISCRIMINATION: The District does not discriminate against any person based on gender, race, color, religion,
national origin, ethnic group, actual or perceived sexual orientation, marital or parental status, physical or mental disability.