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Pathfinder Regional Vocational Technical High School District
Paraprofessional Educator
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What they do
A Teacher Assistant assists classroom teachers by providing extra individual attention and instruction to students. Helps teachers with recordkeeping, preparation for lessons and activities and supervising students. May work with special education students, or work in a school library or computer lab; may be called teacher aide or paraprofessional.
$41,845 / year median in Massachusetts
+9% projected growth
Job Description
Position :
Paraprofessional To assist the teacher to achieve learning objectives by working with individual students or small groups; to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole.Qualification:
Preferred qualifications:- A High School Diploma or equivalent.
- An Associate's (or higher) degree; or
- Completion of 48 credit hours at an Institution of Higher Education; or
- Completion of one of the formal Massachusetts endorsed assessments:
Parapro or WorkKeys Performance Responsibilities:
- Administers 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' needs, interests and abilities.
- 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, and field trips.
- Reads to students and listens to students read.
- Checks notebooks, and supervises testing and make-up work, as assigned by the teacher.
- Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
- Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
- Maintains high-quality nurturing and boundaried relationships with students and staff.
- 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 programs as assigned.
- Performs other appropriate duties as assigned by administration.