Para Educator Summary Description:
The role of a special education para-educator is to provide assistance in implementing plans and programs related to the academic or functional skill attainment for students with visual, language, social, cognitive, physical, and/or emotional learning challenges. Works directly with students, individually or in small groups, and performs clerical tasks as assigned.
Para Educator Essential Responsibilities:
· Assists classroom teacher in teaching a variety of skills to students who are visually impaired and/or multiple handicapped
· Works directly with students individually and / or in groups under the direction of the teacher
· Ability to lift and carry non-ambulatory students
· Prepare materials and equipment to be used by the students in the classroom
· Follow through on teacher’s lesson plans, classroom routine, assigned tasks and direction from therapists
· Provide assistance to students in daily routines such as eating, toileting, positioning and handling (lifting), data documentation and other clerical tasks
· Adhere to agency policy and protocol
· Ability to maintain confidentiality
· Be flexible to assist where there is a need
· Attend scheduled staff development training and meetings
· Complete Medicaid documentation
· Ability to move body in many different ways in order to interact with and position students such as: standing, walking, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching, pushing and pulling consistently throughout the day and in a daily basis
· Required to routinely lift up to 50 pounds