Job summary : Assist the Assistant Principal, Counselor, and Social Worker with instructional tasks, working directly and indirectly with students on prosocial and self regulation skills.
- These tasks will constitute a major portion of the Educational Support Professional's time. Responsibilities and tasks include : Using questioning and discussion strategies to engage, develop, and support scholars' social-emotional, and behavior reasoning, critical thinking, reflection, and understanding;
- providing multiple methods of communicating learning. Engaging scholars in social-emotional, and behavior learning including goal-setting with scholars in collaboration with all staff, and daily monitoring of intervention plans;
- planning and providing activities and assignments with differentiated, effective and multiple opportunities to think, reflect, consolidate and demonstrate understanding;
- utilizing effective materials, resources, and structures designed to support engagement and learning; choosing materials and resources that are age, developmentally, equitability, and culturally appropriate;
modifying pace and tasks based on scholar and staff performance; providing scholars multiple opportunities to be actively engaged.
Teach, model, and implement conflict resolution strategies with students. Facilitate restorative conversations between students.
- Demonstrating flexibility and responsiveness to enhance learning; adjusting and differentiating services, support, and professional learning to address individual scholar needs and ensure scholars are successful;
- continually seeking ways to improve services, support and professional learning, making revisions in response to data, as needed;
monitoring the use and impact of learning activities, materials, and resources. Respond to walkie calls to support student behavior needs as needed.
Minimum qualifications include : High School Diploma or equivalent. Two years of higher education or passing of the ParaPro test preferred.
Demonstrate ability to work with students. Computer and word processing experience helpful. Salary : View Classification II (2) salary grid on page 4, section 2, and classification, page 5, section 2 on Educational Support Professional contract Work schedule : 6 hours : 6 hrs / day Instructional (Behavior support ESP) Bargaining unit : Educational Support Professional Desired start date : 9 / 3 / 24 Osseo Area Schools offers : Meaningful and impactful work Opportunities to grow professionally A variety of benefits Mentorship programs for teachers and educational support professionals Summer opportunities and more