JOB DESCRIPTION:
The Kennett School District seeks applicants for a Paraprofessional for the 2026-2027 school year. As part of our innovative 4-day school week schedule, you will have the opportunity to engage students in meaningful learning experiences while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. For more details and to be considered for this position, applicants must register and then apply online at https://kennett.tedk12.com/hire. Please contact Dr. Nathan Baker at 573-717-1100; extension 1403, if you have any questions.
Position Title
Paraprofessional
Qualifications
Sixty (60) College Hours
Reports to
Building-level Administrators
Terms of Employment
Varies per Assignment
JOB GOAL:
To assist the teacher achieve teaching objectives by working with individual students or small groups to help students achieve skill levels, and to provide a well-organized, smoothly functioning class environment in which students can take full advantage of the instructional program and available resource materials.
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material and skills.
- Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing materials or skills based on a sympathetic understanding or individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
- Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
- Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction.
- Guides independent study, enrichment, and remedial work.
- Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
- Keeps bulletin boards and other classroom learning displays up to date.
- Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and story-telling.
- Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
- Assists students in the library media center.
- Corrects papers, and supervises testing and make-up work, as assigned by the teacher.
- Assists with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines.
- Assists with wash-up and toilet routines.
- Alerts the teacher to any problem or special information regarding an individual student.
- Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
- Maintains a high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information
- Participates in professional development, as assigned.