Immediately Need Paraprofessional - Special Education in McLean County, IL

Job title: Paraprofessional - Special Education

Company: McLean County Unit District No. 5

Job description: Teaching Assistant/Special Education

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• Prepares lesson materials, bulletin Board displays, exhibits, equipment, and demonstrations as needed.


• Presents subject matter to students under the direction and guidance of teachers, using lectures, discussions, or supervised role-playing methods.


• Establishes as fully as possible a supportive and sympathetic relationship with the student(s) without fostering or encouraging intense emotional involvement.


• Serves as a resource person, if and when requested, to the student personnel evaluation team conferring about one of the students to whom assigned.


• Supervises students in classrooms, halls, cafeterias, school yards, and gymnasiums, or on field trips.


• Conducts demonstrations to teach such skills as sports, dancing, and handicrafts.


• Distributes teaching materials such as textbooks, workbooks, papers, and pencils to students.


• Distributes tests and homework assignments, and collect them when they are completed.


• Enforces administration policies and rules governing students.


• Grades homework and tests, and computes and records results, using answer sheets or electronic marking devices.


• Completes required reports in a timely manner.


• Teaches socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification and positive reinforcement.


• Works with students with multiple physical, mental, and developmental disabilities.


• Is familiar with and uses adaptive equipment including, communication equipment, wheel chairs, adaptive feeding tools, etc.


• Assists students with self-care, hygiene, and feeding as necessary.


• May be required to perform tasks that students are not able to do, i.e. taking notes, handling materials, holding books, etc.


• May work with/handle resistive students.


• Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.


• Maintains a high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.


• Assists the classroom teacher in other tasks necessary in maintaining a professional and positive classroom environment, and performs other teacher aide duties as may be assigned by the classroom teacher, administration or Board of Education.

• Must have excellent Oral and Written communication skills to work with teachers, education support personnel, building administrators and the general public.


• Enforce school regulations and policies in a professional manner.


• Ability to maintain good working relationships with fellow employees and pupils.


• Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 lbs.


• Requires employee to have the ability to push/pull up to 10 lbs.


• Must be detailed oriented.

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