Special Education Para Educator- Structured Learning (2024/2025 School Year)

Job Description 

Purpose: Para Educators assist in supporting students, teachers, and administrators in creating a positive learning environment that facilitates personal, social, and intellectual development of students with disabilities.  

Reports to: Building Principal and Supervising Special Education Teacher

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt, Hourly ($15.00 per hour and a 7.5-hour workday)

Required Qualifications:     

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Basic computer skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Health and Inoculation Certificate on file in the District Office (after an employment offer is made).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Associates Degree or higher
• Experience working with students with disabilities

Essential Functions:  To perform the responsibilities and roles of a Para Educator successfully, an individual must be able to:

• Facilitate and support a positive learning environment, respond to individual educational, social, and behavioral needs of students with disabilities
• Communicate and work effectively and cooperatively with members of the school district and community
• React to change and frequent interruptions in a productive and positive manner, to include but not limited to new duties, assignments, and student caseloads
• Operate all classroom equipment appropriately
• Observe and follow all school district policies (including health, and safety policies)
• Work to implement the districts vision, mission, and goals
• Maintain regular and consistent attendance at work
• Complete other duties as assigned

General Responsibilities

• Prepare and present classroom activities under the supervision of a licensed teacher
• Work with individual and small groups of students to reinforce curriculum material and complete assignments provided by the teacher
• Work with students who exhibit behaviors such as, but not limited to:
  • climbing or running
  • hitting, punching, kicking, slapping, or screaming
  • throwing objects
  • drooling, spiting, licking, or biting
  • eloping
• Assist individual students in need of medical support
• Guide students in independent study, enrichment, or remedial work provided by teachers
• Assist with non-instructional classroom duties, such as but not limited to, snack, diapering, toileting, clothing routines, and escorting
• Support students’ individual needs thought-out the school setting (g. lunch, recess, sports)
• Keep student and personnel records confidential
• Respond to information requested in a cooperative, courteous, and timely manner
• Perform clerical duties when requested to include data entry into a computer
• Perform other tasks and assume other responsibilities as directed by the principal or teacher

Physical Demands:  The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Para Educator to perform the essential job functions successfully.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

• Sit and stand for extended periods of time
• Bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk and reach overhead
• Ability to see and read a computer screen and/or printed materials.
• Hear and understand English at normal classroom levels both indoors, outdoors, and on the telephone
• Speak in an audible tone so that others may clearly understand in normal classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone
• Physically able to independently lift up to 25 pounds to shoulder height and 50 pounds to waist height

 Terms of Employment: At-will employment. Salary and work schedule as determined by the Board. 

Evaluation:   Performance evaluations in accordance with the Board’s policy and the Classified Employee Handbook.

Fort Leavenworth USD 207 is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training or promoting on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, disability, veteran's status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected status under local, state or federal law.