Special Education Paraprofessional Resume Samples

Description :

1. Assist teacher in reinforcement and encouragement to develop children's communication skills, promote sharing, build self-esteem, and foster children's ability to express themselves through assisting in the daily development program.
2. Assists teachers in maintaining a clean and safe environment by wiping/sanitizing tables and toys.
3. Assists teachers in the supervision and implementation of developmental instructional activities by redirecting children to different learning activities when they are causing a distraction or are not able to focus on the current learning activity.
4. Monitors, supervise, and care for students to ensure safety during play by organizing various indoor/outdoor activities, bathrooms, napping, field trips, meals, and arrival and departure.
5. Provides health and safety maintenance by assisting students with toileting, diapering, washing hands, brushing teeth, tying shoes, and properly wearing backpacks and jackets.
6. Assists teachers with monitoring and assisting children during meal consumption, helping children dispose of garbage, and recording point of service.
7. Assists teachers with collecting and tracking information, including attendance, sign-in sheets, meal counts, and student counts before and after outdoor activities.
8. Assists teachers in monitoring, evaluating, and assessing the progress and developmental levels of children through observation and basic documentation.

Experience

10+ Years

Level

Consultant

Education

Bachelors of Science

Description :

1. Assist the special education teacher to provide for the physical and instructional needs of students with disabilities.
2. Assist in the implementation of classroom programs, including self-help, behavior management, and instruction.
3. Work under the general supervision of the principal and the immediate direction of a certified teacher and/or diagnostician.
4. Maintain confidentiality and keep accurate records of students with disabilities and furnish to appropriate personnel in a timely manner.
5. Assist in supervising students throughout the school day, both inside and outside the classroom, including lunchroom, bus duty, playground, and community.
6. Assist teacher and/or diagnostician in maintaining, copying, transferring confidential folders as required.
7. Assist special needs students with individual tasks as may be required including, but not limited to, transferring to and from wheelchairs, lifting, positioning, feeding, bathroom needs, personal hygiene.
8. Assist in managing the behavior of students and crisis intervention.

Experience

5-7 Years

Level

Executive

Education

Masters of Science

Description :

1. Work with students in an inclusive classroom environment.
2. Served 46 students, from K-5th grade in Reading, Math, Social Studies and ELA.
3. Managed and maintained accurate daily records of all students served with meticulous attention to detail.
4. Assisted various special needs students with specific disorders and/or physical disabilities) in the classroom to meet academic objectives, learn basic social skills and transition from codependency to dependency.
5. Encouraged and explored activities in which student's progress in areas of both gross and fine motor skills.
6. Utilized available technology tools to engage students in learning and further academic development.
7. Mentored to specific students with behavior problems: utilizing conflict resolutions; addressing appropriate and inappropriate behavior; developed appropriate relationships with students, maintaining regular dialogue regarding the progress of behavior as well as challenges students face.
8. Assisted teacher and student with setting realistic goals and tracking progress; clarified and implemented consequences due to inappropriate behavior, as well as rewards for socially acceptable behavior, and reaching and maintaining set goals.

Experience

5-7 Years

Level

Executive

Education

Bachelor Of Science

Description :

1. Demonstrated ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students in the school environment and community.
2. Maintained a safe working environment and encourages colleagues to be safety-minded in the performance of all school-related duties.
3. Participated in in-service training programs as approved.
4. Worked with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of materials or skills initially introduced and outlined by certified staff.
5. Assisted the certified staff in devising special strategies for reinforcing learning materials and skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
6. Monitored work, corrects papers, and supervises curriculum-based testing and makeup work as assigned by the certified staff.
7. Served as the chief source of information and help to any guest teacher assigned in the absence of the regular certified staff.

Experience

5-7 Years

Level

Executive

Education

Bachelor Of Science

Description :

1. Instruct special needs students in academic subjects, using a variety of techniques, such as phonetics, multisensory learning, or repetition to reinforce learning and meet students' varying needs.
2. Develop or implement strategies to meet the needs of students with a variety of disabilities.
3. Develop individual educational plans (IEPs) designed to promote students' educational, physical, or social development.
4. Confer with parents, administrators, testing specialists, social workers, or other professionals to develop individual education plans (IEPs).
5. Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, or administrative regulations.
6. Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification or positive reinforcement.
7. Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among students.
8. Modify the general kindergarten or elementary education curriculum for special-needs students.

Experience

0-2 Years

Level

Entry Level

Education

Masters of Science

Description :

1. Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of materials or skills initially introduced and outlined by certified staff.
2. Assists the certified staff in devising special strategies for reinforcing learning materials and skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
3. Monitors work, corrects papers, and supervises curriculum-based testing and makeup work as assigned by the certified staff.
4. Serves as the chief source of information and help to any guest teacher assigned in the absence of the regular certified staff.
5. Performs clerical, classroom maintenance, and instructional duties as assigned by the certified staff.
6. Alerts the certified staff to any problem or special information about an individual student.
7. Performs assigned supervision of students during lunch periods, play periods, and on field trips.
8. Performs assigned non-instructional classroom duties, such as snack time, toileting, and clothing routines.

Experience

0-2 Years

Level

Entry Level

Education

Bachelor's In Psychology

Description :

1. Assist in implementing plans or interventions/strategies for instruction; monitoring student behavior during the non-classroom time; and providing information to appropriate school personnel.
2. Adapts classroom activities, assignments and/or materials, under the direction of the supervising teacher, for the purpose of supporting and reinforcing classroom objectives.
3. Communicates with supervising instructional staff, and/or professional support personnel for the purpose of assisting in evaluating progress and/or implementing IEP objectives.
4. Administers tests, homework, make-up work, etc. for the purpose of supporting teachers in the classroom.
5. Implements behavioral plans for students, under the supervision of administrative staff or assigned certificated staff for the purpose of presenting and/or reinforcing documented objectives.
6. Provides under the supervision of assigned administrator or certified staff, instruction to students in a variety of individual and group activities.
7. Performed clerical, classroom maintenance, and instructional duties as assigned by the certified staff.
8. Alerted the certified staff to any problem or special information about an individual student.

Experience

10+ Years

Level

Management

Education

Bachelor Of Science

Description :

1. Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of materials or skills initially introduced and outlined by certified staff.
2. Assists the certified staff in devising special strategies for reinforcing learning materials and skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
3. Work with different personalities and a diverse student population.
4. Monitors work, corrects papers, and supervises curriculum-based testing and makeup work as assigned by the certified staff.
5. Serves as the chief source of information and help to any guest teacher assigned in the absence of the regular certified staff.
6. Performs clerical, classroom maintenance, and instructional duties as assigned by the certified staff.
7. Alerts the certified staff to any problem or special information about an individual student.
8. Performs assigned supervision of students during lunch periods, play periods, and on field trips.

Experience

5-7 Years

Level

Executive

Education

Bachelors of Science

Description :

1. Worked with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of materials or skills initially introduced and outlined by certified staff.
2. Assisted the certified staff in devising special strategies for reinforcing learning materials and skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual needs, interests, and abilities.
3. Performed assigned supervision during lunch periods, play periods, and on field trips.
4. Performed assigned noninstructional classroom duties.
5. Demonstrated ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students, environment, and community.
6. Participated in in-service training programs as approved.
7. Maintained safe environment, assisted as directed by certified staff in the effort to successfully maintain students with special needs in an integrated setting, as determined by the IEP.

Experience

10+ Years

Level

Consultant

Education

Associates

Description :

1. Provided specialized and concentrated assistance to students needing help with classroom work; helped students understand and complete assignments and supplemented regular classroom curriculum with enrichment activities.
2. Accompanied students to job sites and assisted with supervision, task completion, and behavioral management.
3. Worked one-on-one with an autistic student, shadowing him wherever he went and helping him manage anxiety-causing situations.
4. Additionally taught him the piano as an elective in school, worked with him on job site, escorted him home on the bus every day, and provided in-home training.
5. Additionally worked with severely handicapped students, assisting with personal care and hygiene, as needed, for students unable to care for themselves.
6. Worked one-on-one with a non-verbal, wheelchair-bound student with cerebral palsy.
7. Helped him learn to control a new motorized wheelchair which he controlled with his head movements.

Experience

7-10 Years

Level

Senior

Education

Certification

Description :

1. Helped and oversaw the arrival and departure of students. Monitored students in the dining hall, restroom, hallway, playground, for the duration of field trips, school assemblies, and particular events, at snack, nap time, and ahead of and after school.
2. Provided support to the special education teacher as the instructional program is implemented.
3. Supervised students independently and in small groups as learning activities are conducted in line with teacher directions.
4. Prepared a weekly agenda with the help of the teacher(s).
5. Amassed materials, programs, and equipment before the arrival of the students.
6. Assisted teacher with official statement boards, repetition of materials and grading tests.
7. Prepared student charts, work folders, and other secretarial duties as assigned by the educator.
8. Worked with individual students or little groups to build up motor skills and conduct instructional exercises allocate by the teacher.

Experience

5-7 Years

Level

Executive

Education

Bachelor Of Science

Description :

1. Implemented reading and writing workshops to increase student literacy and support school reading programs.
2. Successfully improved student participation in the classroom through the integration of creative role-playing exercises.
3. Assisted in developing student-led after-school tutoring program to teach underprivileged students.
4. Developed a program to work with students and increase interest in higher learning.
5. Improved student's analytical skills by introducing state-of-the-art computer program technologies.
6. Modified the general education curriculum for special-needs students based upon a variety of instructional techniques and technologies.
7. Planned, implemented, monitored, and assessed a classroom instructional program which was consistent with Capistrano Unified District regulations and Board of Education goals.
8. Assisted in developing behavior initiatives for students in the inclusion classroom.

Experience

0-2 Years

Level

Entry Level

Education

Master Of Arts