Special Education Paraprofessional

The Special Education Paraprofessional will be committed to fostering a supportive and inclusive classroom environment where students are encouraged to explore and excel in special education. This role includes contributing to GGA’s curriculum development, and supporting the school’s mission of academic excellence and female empowerment.

Key Expectations:

• GGA instructors submit lesson plans weekly. Lesson plans are reviewed by the Academic Program Coordinator and feedback is provided.
• Advisory classes are an important part of school culture at GGA. Students work on college and career readiness, social and emotional learning and academics in these daily classes. The advisor is an important part of a student's support network at GGA, and most instructors are assigned an advisory class. Advisory lessons are provided and the instructor facilitates sessions, grades assignments, and maintains a strong relationship and line of communication with advisees' caregivers.
• Culture support in the hallways and at lunch is expected. Instructors are assigned an arrival and dismissal duty, and are added to a master schedule to support hallways for one period everyday.
• At GGA we believe that we are partners in education with our student's caregivers. Together we support students and ensure they achieve their fullest potential. To do this, GGA gives dedicated work time on a Wednesday to reach out to caregivers. It is expected that instructors maintain continued lines of communication with caregivers through grading, calling and emailing home and facilitating twice annual Student Led Conferences.
• Ensure you have at least 2 grades for every week, 2 summatives for the quarter and end of quarter comments

Key Responsibilities

• Designs and delivers rigorous, inquiry-based special education lessons that foster curiosity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills in young women.
• Develops cohesive unit and lesson plans aligned with GGA’s curriculum standards, emphasizing both special education literacy and global awareness.
• Uses student performance data to inform and differentiate instruction, ensuring that all students are appropriately challenged and supported.
• Designs and implements a variety of formative and summative assessments to measure student understanding and mastery of key concepts.
• Integrates interdisciplinary connections between special education and other subject areas, highlighting the relevance of special education principles to real-world issues and students’ local and global contexts.
• Encourages hands-on experimentation and project-based learning experiences that promote collaboration, leadership, and confidence among female students in special education fields.
• Incorporates culturally responsive teaching practices that affirm diverse perspectives and experiences in special education learning.

Learning and Development

• Plans and teaches lessons using inquiry-based approaches to teaching and learning
• Uses a wide range of technologies and strategies to differentiate instruction based on readiness, learning difference, and interest.
• Uses student data to drive instructional decisions
• Contributes to interdisciplinary curriculum planning and development
• Fosters positive relationships with students
• Develops regular communication protocols with parents
• Delivers thoughtful guidance and support with advisory groups
• Engages professionally and enthusiastically with new school initiatives
• Keeps up-to-date records of attendance, curriculum, and assessment
• Develops and implements assessments aligned to GGA curriculum standards
• Demonstrates an active and genuine interest in professional growth

School Community Engagement

• Fosters positive relationships with students
• Develops regular communication protocols with parents
• Delivers thoughtful guidance and support with advisory groups
• Engages professionally and enthusiastically with new school initiatives
• Participate in weekly and month professional development programs

• Creating classroom experiences that embody our four pillars of sisterhood, scholarship, service and safety including establishing strong relationships to demonstrate that we care about them
• Foster deeply engaging lessons and activities that deliver the content in ways that excite and enable our students to learn
• Use resources to effectively differentiate for all types of learners through co-teaching with special education teachers and through providing students additional resource

• Certification in special education preferred
• Bachelor’s degree, (Master’s preferred) with a concentration in content area
• Secondary classroom experience in an urban context (three years preferred)
• Solid and demonstrable teaching experience working with a variety of student academic levels
• Creative and enthusiastic approach to teaching and learning
• Ability to write a cohesive lesson plan
• Exhibits ability to collaboratively work within and across disciplines with a diverse instructional team
• Demonstrates ability to work with parents and community
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, classroom management, and adaptive teaching
• Lead extra-curricular activities during and/or after school
• Receive and incorporate feedback from team leaders, executive leadership and peers
• Growth minded, receiving and incorporating feedback from team leaders, executive leadership and peers

IDEAL CANDIDATES WILL ALIGN TO OUR ACADEMIC APPROACH:

• Creating classroom experiences that embody our four pillars of sisterhood, scholarship, service and safety including establishing strong relationships to demonstrate that we care about them
• Foster deeply engaging lessons and activities that deliver the content in ways that excite and enable our students to learn
• Use resources to effectively differentiate for all types of learners through co-teaching with special education teachers and through providing students additional resources

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