Paraprofessional (FT) Job at Grafton Public Schools
Grafton Public Schools Grafton, MA 01519
$16.32 - $21.52 an hour
Title: Paraprofessional
Qualifications:
- At least two years of post-secondary education that is equivalent to at least 48 credit hours from an accredited higher education institution is preferred.
- Experience in working with children and youth in the classroom or in clinical and therapeutic settings is preferred.
- ParaPro or WorkKeys certificate or equivalent preferred.
- CALM certified or current protective measure training or able to be certified preferred.
- Must be physically able to utilize CALM physical management or current protective measure training and de-escalation techniques as trained.
- Must be able to physically assist students who may be 50 pounds or greater.
- Must be able to work collaboratively with a team that may include other learning assistants, classroom teachers, behavior specialists, and other service providers.
- Must be flexible and understanding of the students and programs they may be assigned to, which may including assisting other students and/or needing support in other buildings where staffing may be needed.
Reports To: Behavioral Specialist Coordinator, Building Principal
Job Goal: To provide behavioral and learning support, instruction and monitoring for children and youth with varied learning and behavioral needs.
Job Responsibilities:
- Modify instructional and assessment materials to meet the needs of individual students as prescribed by their IEP under the direction of the special education teacher.
- Foster independence in students on IEPs by assisting them in the routines of school life.
- Work with individuals or small groups of students to support instructional programming in the assigned area.
- Support students during lunch periods, assemblies, recess, and field trips.
- Implement the student’s behavioral plan by using the standard principles of reinforcement, by providing. consistent implementation of contingencies, and by delivering accurate prompting as needed.
- Support student acquisition of daily living skills such as dressing, feeding, washing, toileting as needed.
- Collect, organize, graph, and maintain all data for assigned students.
- Prepare for and actively participate in confidential consultation meetings with administration, supervisors, and other staff to provide regular feedback to the special education team members on the progress and challenges experienced by assigned students in addressing their IEP goals.
- Practice and maintain student confidentiality both within and outside the school environment.
- Complete brief objective summaries of students’ performance within the daily communication book.
- Manage the students’ challenging behaviors by Verbal and/or Physical prompting, notification to appropriate. supervisory staff when physical restraint is needed and adherence to appropriate physical restraint procedures and safe hold positions.
- Recognize the antecedents of more challenging student behaviors and intervene with appropriate support to reduce the behavior.
- Discrete Trials.
- Teaching Methodology of Applied Behavioral Analysis.
- Attend all scheduled training/workshops.
- Monitor student behavior on the bus rides to ensure safety at all times during the route.
Terms of Employment: Salary and work year as negotiated and approved by the School Committee.
Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated by the Behavioral Specialist Coordinator and/ or Building Principal
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