General Paraeducator

Gilroy Unified School District•Gilroy, CA

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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

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
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 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.