TITLE:

Para-Professional / Educational Assistant

REPORTS TO

Teachers and Administrators

JOB GOAL

To assist the teacher in achieving teaching objectives by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve a proficient skill level .

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES

1.) Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of materials or skills initially introduced by the teacher. 2.) Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing materials or skills based on an understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities. 3.) Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher. 4.) Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students. 5.) Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and make-up work, as assigned by the teacher. 6.) Assists with large group activities such as drill work, reading aloud, and story telling. 7.) Serves as a resource of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher. 8.) Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student. 9.) Maintains a high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of a fully licensed teacher. 10.) Participates in in-service training programs, as assigned or approved by the immediate supervisor. 11.) Performs other duties as assigned by the supervisor.