**An additional $2/hour is available for those paraprofessionals who waive health coverage and are able to prove group creditable coverage elsewhere. 

TITLE: Special Education Paraprofessional

QUALIFICATIONS: The Special Education Paraprofessionals with 60 or more college credit hours and a Missouri Substitute Teaching Certificate are preferred. Paraprofessionals should have experience working with students

REPORTS TO: Principal

FLSA STATUS: Non-exempt

JOB GOAL: To work in a resource or self-contained room with students under a teacher’s supervision.

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Assist special education teacher with the instruction of special education students in the classroom.
2. Monitor classroom when there are IEP meetings and staffings.
3. Assist the special education teachers as needed (i.e., grading papers, phone calls).
4. Assist with physical care of special education students as needed (i.e. diaper changing, taking to bathroom and feeding).
5. Assist in lunchroom as assigned.
6. Assist at recess and noon hour as assigned.
7. Perform other duties as assigned by the building principal.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:
Employment will be on an at-will basis for 9 months, beginning with the first day of the work calendar or at the time of employment for duration of school year with prorated personal leave. Each paraprofessional will be provided a work calendar showing the specific daily work schedule of the employee. The work calendar may be modified by the Board of Education at any time, as needs dictate. Seven hours (including a 30-minute non-paid lunch period) will constitute a workday for special education paraprofessionals. A definite daily schedule will be established by the building principal and approved by the Assistant Superintendent of Personnel.  The yearly salary will be disbursed in nineteen (19) equal payments or twenty-four (24) equal payments per employee’s choice.

EVALUATION:
Performance of this job will be evaluated annually in accordance with the provisions of the Board’s policy on evaluation of support staff personnel.

Fort Zumwalt School District, O’Fallon, Missouri