SPED - Classroom Assistant

Description

About Us:
21st Century Charter School at Gary is a free K-12+ public charter school. We are building a team of excellence. We are the top performing charter school in Gary, Indiana. We are one of the few Indiana schools offering an early college program, which allows our qualifying high school students to take real college courses for real college credit, free of charge to our students and their families. Our curriculum and our teaching methods are designed using Core Knowledge in K-8, Project Lead the Way beginning in middle school, and a blended learning model in middle school through high school. We are a TAP school! Please join us if you are committed to excellence, mission driven, and ready to take 21st Century Charter School @ Gary to uncommonly high levels of achievement! Our teachers cultivate in our students the critical thinking skills they will need to understand how the world around them works and to become leaders and agents of positive change in the world. 

REPORTS TO/TERM: 

Director of SPED

This is a 10-month position.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: 

Associates Degree or higher (32 credit hours or higher)

At least two years’ experience working with urban children 

Essential Key Functions:

A SPED Paraprofessional will perform the following duties:

Assists teacher in coordinating lessons and activities

Assist teacher in maintaining discipline

Assist students with personal hygiene

Provide lunchroom and playground supervision

Maintain student service logs

Provide service to students

Assemble small groups

Work individually with students

Collaborate with general education teachers

Attend all required staff meetings

Work as a team member

Attend all professional development opportunities

Work under the direction of the Resource Teacher

Other functions assigned by supervisor

Follow all school policies

Dress professionally