Paraprofessional/Classroom Aide
About The Position
This role involves assisting teachers in educational settings, providing individualized and group instruction, and supporting students' learning and behavioral needs. The position requires active participation in planning and implementing educational activities, monitoring student progress, and maintaining effective communication with staff and external educational systems. A key aspect of the role is managing student behavior, including crisis intervention and applying restraint procedures as per policy. The paraprofessional also handles administrative duties related to classroom supplies and student records, and liaises with the local educational system to ensure smooth transitions and support for students placed at BayPointe.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in education or related field.
Responsibilities
- Assists with instructing students individually or in a group in accordance with identified needs.
- Consults with treatment team to ensure utilization of a behavior management system that is consistent with the system used in other program components.
- Is responsible for assisting in planning, scheduling and implementing educational field trips and actively participates as required. May drive program vehicle during such trips.
- Assists teacher in identifying and communicating educational needs of consumers in preparation for summer tutorial services.
- Assists in implementing daily/weekly lesson plans.
- Reads to and listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
- Works with students to reinforce learning of materials or skills initially introduced by the teacher and/or computer based program.
- Assists teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing materials or skills based on needs of students.
- Checks notebooks, grades paper-based and computer based assignments daily.
- Supervises testing and make up work as assigned by teacher and/or computer based program.
- Alerts Education leadership to any problem or special information about the student.
- Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work assigned by teacher or computer based program.
- Demonstrates the ability to recognize the elements of a crisis state and knows how to deescalate or resolve the situation.
- Applies seclusion and restraint per AltaPointe Policy and Procedure, as required.
- Assesses educational needs of students on an on-going basis and makes appropriate adjustments to educational plans as needed.
- Administers educational testing within 10 days of consumer’s admission to program and prior to student’s discharge.
- Works with Special Education teacher to meet IEP goals.
- Checks and records student attendance daily.
- Provides data to teacher for educational discharge summary and final report card at time of discharge.
- Maintains awareness of current techniques and approaches to the educational process as they relate to the population being used.
- Determines classroom supplies and maintains sufficient supplies.
- Maintains an effective professional relationship with all program staff as well as with all external contact made during the course of fulfilling job related duties.
- Appropriately delegates routine tasks to behavioral staff such that student needs can be met without disruption.
- Monitors the student’s adjustment to school placement and shares information with school/residential staff.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
