Paraprofessional

Job Description

Job Description

Be Part of Our Growing High-Performance School

We have achieved a high level of academic success without burning out our teachers by meshing an effective education program with effective teacher supports and professional development...

And we are growing: we add additional grade levels and hire additional teachers each year.

If you want to work in a highly successful charter school that supports its teachers, serving a student mix that is among the most diverse in America while enjoying the cultural vibrancy of Jersey City, Hoboken and New York City (just 2 miles away), then apply today online at

Responsibilities

Values, Expectations, and Commitment: Our staff commit themselves to the school’s values and mission. Moreover, appreciating the example of excellent schools which succeed at helping all students achieve at a high level, our staff hold high expectations for each student and commit themselves to helping every student achieve their full potential.

Student Learning: Our staff takes ownership for their students achievements and learning progress that meets or exceeds the school's high standards. They actively develop solutions to problems, reaching out for peer and leader support, and are able to take advantage of all school provided resources. Paraprofessionals are expected to collaborate with our special education coordinator and with a student's teachers by implementing interventions they have designed to support the student and to improve student focus and behavior.

Paraprofessionals are expected to assist a student's teacher in providing classroom accommodations, while still pushing the students to do the work themselves. When working with a student on an academic exercise, paraprofessionals are expected to not short-circuit student thinking by providing the answer, such as through spelling out a word. Instead the student grow by challenging the student to use skills that have been learned, such as phonetically sounding out the letters in a word.

Requirements

Teacher certification is not required however, candidates must, at minimum, have completed 2 years of college and possess an Associate’s or higher degree. It is also important to have good communications skills, basic administrative skills, and to be a team player who possesses maturity, a strong work ethic, and a whatever-it-takes to help children attitude.

Benefits

Supports

As a part of a school-wide team that includes many different professionals and they receive career-long coaching and professional development support from their Academy Dean and Dean of Students, their Grade Level or Department Head, and our Coordinator of Special Education.

Additional teacher supports include:

• A research-based curriculum and supporting curricular materials;
• High-quality formative assessments, aligned with our curriculum, that will help you immediately identify when students in your class have not achieved mastery of a skill, concept, or knowledge item;
• Full-time reading and math specialists who will be available to tutor students who are struggling to master an essential skill, and social workers who will be available to help students struggling with outside problems;
• The staffing of our afterschool program by Academic Tutors, so we can limit the length of our teachers’ work-days;
• Abundant planning periods that provide teachers an opportunity to prepare up-coming lessons during the school day.

As equal opportunity employers, BelovED and Empowerment Academy hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development