Title: | Bilingual Paraprofessional - Academica Cesar Chavez |
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ID: | 1520 |
Job Title: | Bilingual Paraprofessional - Academia Cesar Chavez |
Client: | Academia Cesar Chavez |
Application Deadline: | N/A |
Position Title: Bilingual Paraprofessional
Department: General Education
Reports To: Head of School
Management Role: Non-Manager
ABOUT ACADEMIA CESAR CHAVEZ
Academia Cesar Chavez (ACC) is a public, Pre-K through 8th grade charter school, founded in 2000 in St. Paul, MN. ACC is a community-based school offering a bilingual program tailored to meet the needs of individual students, readily accessible to families and equipped with the curricular and instructional tools necessary to ensure that students can achieve high standards. The school adopts an educational program that supports the goal of students becoming bilingual and biliterate and best practices. ACC serves a significant Emergent Bilingual students and Latino population and uses highly effective instructional strategies. Academia Cesar Chavez appeals to families of all ethnic backgrounds who desire a bilingual and intercultural learning environment for their children.
POSITION PURPOSE
To provide an enriching academic learning environment that is conductive to learning and appropriate to the maturity, interest, and learning style of ACC students; develop a linguistically and culturally appropriate educational program and school; work with directors, educational team and other staff to ensure ACC’s mission, values, vision and curriculum objectives are supported, modeled and taught to the students.
Qualifications:
- 2-year college degree or working towards a degree and/or an academic plan
- Experience working with youth in urban communities
- Excellent interpersonal and human relation skills
- Culturally-responsive, able to work on a team and independently
- Functionally and technically competent in skills necessary for this position
- Bilingual and biliterate in Spanish and English
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Implement and support valuable and interesting lessons which are appropriate to the level of Spanish proficiency of the students
- Utilize specialized approaches for delivering understandable curriculum to second language learners in addition to teaching Spanish language development
- Integrate Latino culture and the arts into the curriculum
- Work with the classroom teacher to incorporate social skills instruction to assist students in establishing and maintaining positive classroom and social behavior
- Conduct home visits with classroom teachers as needed in Spanish speaking families, and to help maintain frequent collaboration and communication with those Spanish speaking families or guardians
- Work effectively as a team with educational and administrative staff, including school partners and social service providers, to develop a linguistically and culturally appropriate school environment
- Work with the administration in implementing all ACC school policies and rules
- In the classroom, implement consistent rules of classroom behavior and procedures; set strong boundaries and high expectations of student behavior along with maintaining order in the classroom in a fair and just manner that incorporates ACC values
- Participate actively in weekly staff meetings and serve on various school committees
- Commit to on-going professional development
- Be able to work evening hours to conduct home visits, support parent-teacher conferences, and assist in school events
- Able to assume various responsibilities and assignments, which may arise out of school needs
- Participate in non-teaching extracurricular activities associated with the school
- Other duties as assigned
Salary:
Competitive pay based on qualifications and experience.
Position open until filled.