Esp - Instructional (Behavior Intervention)

Job Description
Job summary:
Assist the Assistant Principal, Counselor, and Social Worker with instructional tasks, working directly and indirectly with students on prosocial and self regulation skills. These tasks will constitute a major portion of the Educational Support Professional's time.

Responsibilities and tasks include:
Using questioning and discussion strategies to engage, develop, and support scholars' social-emotional, and behavior reasoning, critical thinking, reflection, and understanding;
providing multiple methods of communicating learning.
Engaging scholarsin social-emotional, and behavior learning including goal-setting with scholars in collaboration with all staff, and daily monitoring of intervention plans;
planning and providing activities and assignments with differentiated, effective and multiple opportunities to think, reflect, consolidate and demonstrate understanding;
utilizing effective materials, resources, and structures designed to support engagement and learning;
choosing materials and resources that are age, developmentally, equitability, and culturally appropriate;
modifying pace and tasks based on scholar and staff performance;
providing scholars multiple opportunities to be actively engaged.
Teach, model, and implement conflict resolution strategies with students. Facilitaterestorative conversations between students.
Demonstrating flexibility and responsiveness to enhance learning;
adjusting and differentiating services, support, and professional learning to address individual scholar needs and ensure scholars are successful;
continually seeking ways to improve services, support and professional learning, making revisions in response to data, as needed;
monitoring the use and impact of learning activities, materials, and resources.
Respond to walkie calls to support student behavior needs as needed.
Minimum qualifications include:
High School Diploma or equivalent.
Two years of higher education or passing of the ParaPro test preferred.
Demonstrate ability to work with students.
Computer and word processing experience helpful.
Salary:
View Classification II (2) salary grid on page 4, section 2, and classification, page 5, section 2 on Educational Support Professional contract
Work schedule:
6hours:
6hrs/day Instructional (Behavior support ESP)
Bargaining unit:
Educational Support Professional
Desired start date:
9/3/24
Osseo Area Schools offers:
Meaningful and impactful work
Opportunities to grow professionally
A variety of benefits
Mentorship programs for teachers and educational support professionals
Summer opportunities
and more
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:
Osseo Area School District ISD 279 is an Equal Opportunity, and veteran-friendly employer.
Osseo Area School District ISD 279 ensures equal employment opportunities regardless of race, creed, gender, color, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or disability. Osseo Area School District is committed to a workforce that reflects the diversity of the district and strongly encourages persons to apply who can strengthen our diversity. For more information, view the District’s Equal Opportunity and Prohibition Against Discrimination, Harassment and Violence Policy.
Veteran’s Preference:
If you are an eligible veteran, please submit a legible copy of your DD214 with your application.
Accommodation:
If you have a disability that requires an accommodation during the selection process, please email Human Resources at (url removed) or call (phone number removed).
Background Check Upon Conditional Offer:
Background checks are conducted upon receiving a conditional offer. Employees must complete a background check and are responsible for the background fee. A passing background is required. Criminal convictions are reviewed on a case-by-case basis.