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About the Employer
Stockton Unified School District (SUSD) began providing services to students in 1852 and is located in the heart of California's Central Valley near the banks of the San Joaquin River. SUSD is the 17th largest school district in California, whereby 38,000 PK-12th grade students come to us to experience an academic journey that leads to high school graduation and success in college, careers, and as actively-engaged community members. The District also serves a number of adults through our Stockton School For Adults. SUSD is made up of thirty-seven Head Start classes, fifty-three state preschool classes, three First 5 preschool classes, forty-one K-8 schools, four comprehensive high schools, three small high schools, an alternative high school, a special education school, a school for adults, and five dependent charter schools. Our district mission is to graduate every single youth college, career, and community ready. Stockton Unified School District is dedicated to providing high-quality first instruction, rigorous curriculum, and supporting academic achievement and social-emotional development supported by Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS). The District's work is guided by three focal goals:
• Every child by the end of third grade will read and comprehend at the proficient level.
• Every child will have access to high quality, rigorous first instruction.
• Every child, by the end of 12th grade, will graduate and be college, career, and community ready.
Job Description / Essential Elements:
DEFINITION
To assist teachers and specialists with the educational program in an assigned school; reinforce learning concepts at the teacher's or specialist's direction; assist in the supervision of the students' activities; perform various clerical duties; and perform related duties as assigned.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED AND EXERCISED
Receives general supervision from an administrator. May receive technical or functional supervision from a certificated instructor, or other certificated personnel. Exercises no supervision.
EXAMPLES OF DUTIES - Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Assist in the preparation of instructional materials and study aids to be used by students in classrooms or individual study situations; perform photocopying and duplication duties as necessary.
• Assist in the implementation of instructional activities by reinforcing learning concepts.
• Assist students in understanding instructional assignments under teachers' directions.
• Report any unusual student behavior, including suspected child abuse to the instructor.
• Assist teachers with monitoring individual progress of students and discuss problems and improvements.
• Operate instructional equipment.
• Assist in administering and scoring of tests and examinations.
• Assisting the teacher with explaining and clarifying work assignments to students.
• Assist the assigned teacher with supervision of students' classroom and playground activities, refer discipline problems to instructor as necessary.
• Maintain records, logs, and files as assigned.
• Maintain records on students' progress in the development of specific skills, under the guidance of the instructor.
• Assist the teacher with supervision of children in library activities.
• May assist in the arrangement of field trips; accompany class on field trips; assist in the supervision of class on field trips.
• Perform a variety of general clerical tasks including assisting the teacher with the preparation of dittos and stencils.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

Knowledge of:

• Correct English usage including vocabulary, spelling, grammar and punctuation.
• Subject matter to which assigned.
• General classroom procedures and rules of conduct.
• Children's recreational activities, including games, arts and crafts.
• Effective communication skills, both oral and written.

Ability to:

• Follow teachers' directions when working with a group of and/or individual students.
• Learn the basic principles and techniques used in improving reading, language and mathematical skills.
• Assist teachers with monitoring progress and identify problem areas and areas of relative learning progress.
• Recognize and understand the needs of students.
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with teachers, specialists, students and others contacted in the course of work.
• Understand and carry out oral and written directions.
• Assist the teacher with the preparation and maintenance of accurate and up-to-date records, files and other documentation and perform a variety of other general clerical tasks.
• Learn the basic principles of administering and scoring tests.
• Physical capability sufficient to perform job task.

Experience and Education
Any combination of education, training and experience equivalent to completion of twelfth grade including proof of NCLB Compliancy consisting of degree or completion of 48 units or more from an accredited college or university or District Assessment Test/County Certificate showing compliance with NCLB. (SUSD proficiency test taken before 07/01/04 does not meet this requirement).
Requirements / Qualifications

• Letter of Introduction
• Copy of Transcript (48 or More Semester College Units)
OR NCLB Compliance (48 or More Semester College Units or 2 Part Paraprofessional Training) OR Paraprofessional Testing (2 Part Paraprofessional Training)
• Resume

Comments and Other Information
Applicants are requested not to make contact with members of the Board of Education, the administrative staff or potential panel members. Candidates not following these guidelines are subject to disqualification from the interview process.
Stockton Unified School District prohibits discrimination, intimidation, harassment (including sexual harassment), and bullying based on a person's actual or perceived ancestry, color, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, immigration status, nationality, race or ethnicity, ethnic group identification, age, religion, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, sex, sexual orientation; a perception of one or more of such characteristics; or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.
El Distrito Escolar Unificado de Stockton prohíbe discriminación, acoso (incluyendo acoso sexual), atormentar o coercionar, e intimidación incluyendo: la discriminación contra un individuo o grupo por motivos de raza, color, ascendencia, nacionalidad, origen nacional, estado migratorio, identificación de grupo étnico, etnicidad, edad, religión, estado civil, embarazo, estado parental, discapacidad física o mental, sexo, orientación sexual, género, identidad de género, expresión de género o información genética; una percepción de una o más de tales características; o asociación con una persona o grupo, con una o más de estas características reales o percibidas.
For inquiries regarding our non-discrimination policies, please refer to the following contacts. Kindly refrain from contacting these individuals regarding the application process.
Para consultas sobre nuestras pólizas de no discriminación, consulte los siguientes contactos. Por favor, absténgase de comunicarse con estas personas con respecto al proceso de solicitud.
Title IX Coordinator
Director, Constituent Services
56 S. Lincoln Street Stockton, CA 95203
(209) 933-7037 Ext. 2195
Constituentservices@stocktonusd.net
504 Coordinator
School Counseling Program Specialist
1141 Lever Blvd. Room 105 Stockton, CA 95206
(209) 933-7130 ext. 2617
504-coordinator@stocktonusd.net
Education Equity Compliance Officer
1661 Pacific Avenue Stockton, CA 95204
(209) 933-7022 ext. 1387
educationequity@stocktonusd.net