PARAPROFESSIONAL - Mexico School District is accepting applications for position of Paraprofessionals for the 2024-2025 school year.  This is a 9-month position with benefits.  Qualified applicants will have 60 college credit hours OR be willing and able to take the Praxis test.

1. Works with individual students or small groups to reinforce learning of material skills initially introduced by the teacher.
2. Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
3. Helps students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher. For example assistive technology.
4. Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
5. Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
6. Assists with such large group activities such as drill work, reading aloud, and storytelling.
7. Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
8. Assists students in the library or media center.
9. Helps students with their clothing, toileting, personal needs, etc. based upon the needs of the students as determined by student’s ability.
10. Assists with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines.
11. Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student. Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
12. Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information   about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
13. Participates in in-service training programs, as assigned.
14. Attend CPI certification trainings
15. Assists with small group re-teaching activities in both special education and regular education classrooms.
16. Performs other duties as assigned. 

Applications will be screened as they are submitted. Job will remain posted until filled.

The Mexico Public School District is an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.  NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATION Our School District Prohibits discrimination and harassment against employees, students or others on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, ancestry, religion, disability by law in admission or access to, or treatment or employment in its programs and  activities.