Looking for Paraprofessional in Michigan

Job title: Paraprofessional

Company: Kalamazoo Resa

Job description:

• Communicates, collaborates, and cooperates with colleagues, supervisors, and students.


• Assists teacher in maintaining discipline and other classroom functions.


• Assists with set up of classroom and prepares materials for specialized instructional units.


• Handles attendance reports and related clerical functions with the teacher.


• Assists in assembling/hanging materials on bulletin boards and keeping displays current.


• May escort children to and from various rooms in school building.


• Assists instructional personnel with the development and presentation of learning materials and instructional exercises.


• Tutor students individually or in small groups to reinforce and follow up learning activity.


• Files, types or uses copy machine.


• Assists in administering pre and post-testing.


• Monitors student classroom academic testing results and correlates that information to the planning for the students.


• Keeps daily logs for every student and monitors daily.


• Performs other duties as assigned.


• Regular and consistent attendance.


• Must have knowledge of and comply with the policies and procedures contained in the Portage Public Schools Employee Handbook.

• High school diploma or equivalent


• Must meet the definition of Highly Qualified as defined by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act by possessing one or more of the following:

• Excellent organization skills and easily follows directions


• Excellent attendance patterns and strong work ethic


• Ability to work easily and effectively with small groups of children


• Demonstrated excellent abilities in the area of interpersonal communication


• A high degree of patience, ability and willingness to learn new skills and take direction


• Willingness to work with a team to maintain best practice supplemental education system

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