CENTENNIAL-A SCHOOL FOR EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING
Northwest
Hours Per Day: 7
Salary Range: New hires will be set at $20.50 per hour. The salary range for internal candidates is $20.50 to $24.90 per hour.
Subjects and Grades:
* Position begins in school year 2024-2025
* ECE
* Early Childhood Elementary (ECE)
Essential Functions and Objectives:
Detailed responsibilities:
* Early Childhood Education Paraprofessional Job Description:
- The Early Childhood Education Paraprofessional assists with delivery of instruction, care, discipline, and the preparation of instructional materials for three, four and/or five year-old pre-kindergarten students as directed by the ECE classroom teacher.
-The Early Childhood Education Paraprofessional performs classroom duties which may include but are not limited to preparing instructional materials, assisting with student instruction, care and discipline, and keeping the classroom clean and well-organized.
Education Requirements:
Copy of high school diploma or GED.
Other information:
Centennial, A School for Expeditionary Learning is a neighborhood school in Northwest Denver. The EL model challenges students to think critically and take active roles in their classroom and communities, resulting in higher achievement and greater engagement in school. At EL schools learning is active, challenging, meaningful public and collaborative. Centennial currently serves approximately 500 students in grades ECE-5 and 7-8. Over the course of the next two years Centennial will phase out the middle years program. By the start of the 2015-16 school year Centennial, A School for Expeditionary Learning will be an ECE-5 school. Centennial’s population is 75% Hispanic and 80% Free/Reduced Lunch. Centennial is a Transitional Native Language Instruction (TNLI) school and provides native language Spanish instruction in one classroom per grade level. Students are grouped in multi-aged classrooms at Centennial to ensure strong relationships are developed between teachers, students and families.
Additional Information:
-Work Year Calendars (including accrued time off): http://thecommons.dpsk12.org/Page/1129
-Benefits (including DPS contributions): http://thecommons.dpsk12.org/Page/1397
-Compensation Structures: http://thecommons.dpsk12.org/Page/244
-Employee must live and work with a permanent home address in Colorado while working for Denver Public Schools.
About Denver Public Schools:
Denver Public Schools is committed to meeting the educational needs of every student with great schools in every neighborhood. Our goal is to provide every child in Denver with rigorous, enriching educational opportunities from preschool through high school graduation. DPS is comprised of nearly 200 schools including traditional, magnet, charter and alternative pathways schools, with an enrollment of more than 90,000 students.
DPS has become the fastest-growing school district in the country in terms of enrollment and the fastest-growing large school district in the state in terms of student academic growth. Learn more at dpsk12.org.
Denver Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.