Paraprofessional (Immediate Hire - NY)

Who You Are

• An educator with an unwavering commitment to the Democracy Prep mission of college success and authentic civic engagement for our scholars.
•   An educator with a desire to assist students with special needs in a rigorous, college preparation learning environment.
• Somebody with the emotional maturity necessary for the specialized work involved.

 

What You’ll Do

•     Work with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of materials or skills initially introduced and outlined by certified staff.
•     Assist 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.
•     Monitor work, correct papers, and supervise curriculum-based tasting and makeup work as assigned by the certified staff.
•     Alert the certified staff to any problem or special information about an individual student.
•     Perform assigned supervision of students (deemed to be) at risk and requir