Pre-School Paraprofessional Level 1 - 27.5 Hours Per Week

pstrongPosition:/strong strongLevel 1 Preschool Paraprofessionalnbsp;/strong/p pstrongLocation: /strong span style="font-weight: 400;"Duncan Lake Early Childhood Center/span/p pstrongReports To: /strong span style="font-weight: 400;"Building Principal/span/p pstrongWork Year: /strong span style="font-weight: 400;"183 Days (27.5 Hours per week)/span/p pstrongSalary:nbsp; /strong span style="font-weight: 400;"$15.78 per hournbsp;/span/p pstrongStart Date:/strongnbsp;As soon as available/p pnbsp;/p pstrongPosition Summary/strong/p pspan style="font-weight: 400;"Contributes to a safe and /spanspan style="font-weight: 400;"nurturing environment for children that encourages their social, emotional, physical, and intellectual development. Maintain positive relationships with families, children, co-workers, and community partners. Ensure safety and supervision of children at all times by meeting all demands of the position/spanspan style="font-weight: 400;".nbsp; Work under the direction of a lead classroom teacher and/or the building principal./span/p pnbsp;/p pstrongPrimary Responsibilities/strong/p ul li style="font-weight: 400;"span style="font-weight: 400;"Participate in a team teaching model, including time dedicated for the teaching team to plan, implement curriculum in all learning environments, assess children, and support parent/teacher communication/span/li li style="font-weight: 400;"span style="font-weight: 400;"Work closely with students, classroom teachers, support staff, volunteers, Preschool Coordinator, DLECC staff, and Principal/span/li li style="font-weight: 400;"span style="font-weight: 400;"Participate in school-wide events/span/li li style="font-weight: 400;"span style="font-weight: 400;"Demonstrates ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students in the school environment and community/span/li li style="font-weight: 400;"span style="font-weight: 400;"Create a safe and nurturing classroom environment with strong classroom management skills/span/li li style="font-weight: 400;"span style="font-weight: 400;"Observe and document student performance/span/li li style="font-weight: 400;"span style="font-weight: 400;"Assist with personal needs such as handwashing, feeding, and bathroom assistance/span/li li style="font-weight: 400;"span style="font-weight: 400;"Other duties as assigned by the principal/span/li /ul pstrongEmployment Qualifications/strong/p ul li style="font-weight: 400;"span style="font-weight: 400;"EDUCATION:/span span style="font-weight: 400;"This position requires a high school diploma.nbsp; An associatersquo;s degree is desired, but not required./span/li li style="font-weight: 400;"span style="font-weight: 400;"EXPERIENCE/spanspan style="font-weight: 400;": /spanspan style="font-weight: 400;"Experience working with elementary students in a classroom setting is desirable./span/li /ul pstrongOther Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes/strong/p pspan style="font-weight: 400;"To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.nbsp; The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.nbsp; Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions./span/p pstrongPreferred:/strong/p ul li style="font-weight: 400;"span style="font-weight: 400;"Knowledge of, and the ability to assist in, instructing reading, writing, and mathematics/span/li li style="font-weight: 400;"span style="font-weight: 400;"Ability to write simple correspondence and routine reports/span/li li style="font-weight: 400;"span style="font-weight: 400;"Ability to communicate effectively with students, school administrators, and staff/span/li li style="font-weight: 400;"span style="font-weight: 400;"Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form/span/li li style="font-weight: 400;"span style="font-weight: 400;"Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations/span/li /ul pstrongPhysical Demands/strong/p pspan style="font-weight: 400;"While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; talk, and hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds of stored files. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus, especially due to concentration when reading and working on a computer screen./span/p pnbsp;/p pstrongWork Environment/strong/p pspan style="font-weight: 400;"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.nbsp; 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 to loud.nbsp;/span/p