PARAPROFESSIONAL

The Scotland County R-1 School District is seeking a Paraprofessional for the 2026-2027 school year

SCOTLAND COUNTY R-I SCHOOL DISTRICT

SUPPORT STAFF POSITION

TITLE: Para Professional

QUALIFICATIONS:  Minimum of 60 semester hours of college credit from an accredited college or university preferably in general education courses that would count toward a degree in elementary or secondary education or successful completion of the Para Pro Praxis exam.  A certified transcript must be on file.

REPORTS TO: Building Principal

JOB GOAL:     To assist the teachers achieve teaching objectives by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole.

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
2. Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
3. Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interest, and abilities.
4. Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
5. Helps students master equipment or instruction materials assigned by the teacher.
6. Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction.
7. Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
8. Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
9. Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up-to-date.
10. Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and story-telling.
11. Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
12. Assists students in the library or media center.
13. Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and make-up work, as assigned by the teacher.
14. Checks and records student attendance.
15. Collects and records collection of money.
16. Helps students with their clothing. (Elementary Only)
17. Assists with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines.  (Elementary Only)
18. Assists with wash-up and toilet routines.
19. Alerts the regular teacher to any problems or special information about an individual student.
20. Serves as the chief of source of information and help to any substitute assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
21. Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentially of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
22. Participates in in-service training programs, as assigned.
23. All other duties as assigned by immediate supervisor.

TERMS OF EMPLOYEMENT:

Wage and work year to be established by the Board.