LEBANON SCHOOL DISTRICT
Lebanon, Pennsylvania
Position Description
Title:Paraprofessional
Qualifications:High School Diploma, Associate’s Degree, 48 College Credits, or pass highly qualified test
Act 151, Act 34, Act 24, and FBI Fingerprints
Experience working with children preferred, but not required.
Reports To:Principal
Job Goal:To assist the teacher by working with individual students or small groups to help them to take full advantage of the instructional program and available resource materials.
Performance Responsibilities:
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.
Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes as directed by the teacher.
Helps students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the 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, assembles, play periods, and field trips.
Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up to date.
Assists students to and from the library or media center
Collects and records collection of money.
Helps students with their clothing.
Assists with lunch, snack, and clean-up routines.
Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
Maintains a high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of all employees.
Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and monitors testing and makeup work assigned by the teacher.
Supports and promotes the district asset building efforts in school and in the community.
Participates in in-service training programs, as assigned.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, talk or hear. The employee occasionally will sit. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and will frequently repeat the same hand, arm or finger motion such as when typing. Employee will frequently interact with students and other staff members. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. The employee may occasionally lift up to 25 pounds such as boxes of paper or push wheeled carts such as mobile computer labs.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
The information contained in this job description is for compliance with the American with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position. Additional duties are performed by the individuals currently holding this position and additional duties may be assigned.
Terms: Salary and work year to be established by the Board.
Evaluation:Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board’s policy on Evaluation of Support Services Personnel.
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