Current Openings
Date: February 12, 2025
Position: Part-Time Classroom Paraprofessional
2024-2025 Assignment – Pre K (Elementary School)
Hours: 5.95 Hours per day, Monday through Friday with 30-minute duty free lunch
JOB SUMMARY: Serves as aide to assist teachers with various duties requiring working with children and performing various clerical duties.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Assists small groups and individual students with academic problems in special situations such as tutoring or verbally reading a test to the student.
2. Types and duplicates materials such as tests, worksheets, and other instructional material.
3. Distributes and collects materials and papers used by students for instructional purposes.
4. Assists the teacher in dealing with individual student’s academic and social problems as they relate to the instructional program.
5. Works closely with the teacher in maintaining established standards of proper student behavior.
6. Reads to students, listens to students read and reinforces learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
7. Assists in the preparation of classroom and bulletin board displays.
8. Assists teachers in correcting and scoring standardized tests.
9. Assists teachers in preparing report cards / progress reports.
10. Assists teachers with audio-visual materials.
11. May be required to escort students, in HALL to classes, etc.., and accompany students on field trips.
12. Work in regular classrooms with inclusion students.
13. Assist students in getting classroom notes.
14. Assist in adapting and giving tests.
15. May be required to tutor small groups of students under teacher direction.
16. Performs other job-related duties as directed by the teacher or supervisor.
QUALIFICATIONS: 2 YEARS OF HIGHER EDUCATION, ASSOCIATE DEGREE, OR HIGHLY QUIALIFIED STATUS ACCORDING TO THE PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Balancing, stooping, twisting, and crouching in repetitive motions along with reaching with extended hands and arms in repetitive motion. Walking at moderate pace, able to lift fifty (50) pounds to a vertical height of thirty (30) inches. Required to use hands and fingers to pick, pinch, seize, hold, and grasp to feel. Able to communicate verbally and to have no more than a forty (40) decibel hearing loss. Vision clarity requirements are far, near and mid-range (less than twenty (20) inches over and twenty (20) feet) along with depth perception, visual quality, ability to identify colors and field of vision. Work is an internal office-type environment, with some levels of noise, with the ability to exert pounds of force. May be required to assist students with orthopedic devices. When needed, aide is responsible for making sure physically disabled student is safely removed from or placed in appropriate seat and transported to and from classroom. Must be aware of student medication and possible reactions and any allergies. Please submit a letter of interest and resume to Mrs. Stacey Guenot, 516 Allport Cutoff, Morrisdale, PA 16858. Deadline for applications is 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 26, 2025.
Date: January 30, 2025
Positions: Personal Care Paraprofessional
Assignment (2024-2025) – Elementary School Life Skills Classroom
Hours: 5.95 Hours per day, Monday through Friday with 30-minute duty free lunch
(part-time)
JOB SUMMARY: Serves as an aide to assist a student with various tasks they need to accomplish as part of their learning environment.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Assists the student with academic problems as directed by the teacher.
2. Assists the student with any physical needs after they have entered the school building and until they leave, such as dressing and undressing, fire drills, eating, toileting, wheelchair mobility, etc.
3. Reads to the student, listens to student read and participates in other skill building communication exercises.
4. Works with the student to reinforce material already learned or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
5. Assists the student with related health service and toileting and accompany students on field trips. May need to lift students on regular basis.
6. Assists the teacher in dealing with the individual student’s academic progress and related social problems as they relate to the instructional program.
7. Communicates in writing to parents, if requested, on the subject matter covered.
8. Will assist the child with physical exercises when requested by physical or occupational therapists.
9. Performs other duties as requested by the Special Education Supervisor.
QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants must be 20 years of age or older. High school graduate, proficient in English and math. Balancing, stooping, twisting, and crouching in repetitive motions along with reaching with extended hands and arms in repetitive motion. Walking at moderate pace, able to lift fifty (50) pounds to a vertical height of thirty (30) inches. Required to use hands and fingers to pick, pinch, seize, hold, and grasp to feel. Able to communicate verbally and to have no more than a forty (40) decibel hearing loss. Vision clarity requirements are far, near and mid-range (less than twenty (20) inches over and twenty (20) feet) along with depth perception, visual quality, ability to identify colors and field of vision. Work is an internal office-type environment, with some levels of noise, with the ability to exert pounds of force. May be required to assist students with orthopedic devices. When needed, aide is responsible for making sure physically disabled student is safely removed from or placed in appropriate seat and transported to and from classroom. Must be aware of student medication and possible reactions and any allergies.
Please submit a letter of interest and resume to Stacey Guenot, 516 Allport Cutoff, Morrisdale, PA 16858. Deadline to apply is February 13, 2025.
Date: January 17, 2025
Position: Middle School Yearbook Advisor – (Stipend as per contract)
Position Available: January 31, 2025
Application Deadline: January 31, 2025
Qualified candidates should send a letter of interest and resume to:
Stacey Guenot, Assistant to the Superintendent
516 Allport Cutoff
Morrisdale, PA 16858
sguenot@westbranch.org
Must be able to obtain Acts 34, 114, 151 clearances.
Date: November 26, 2024
Positions:
- Varsity Assistant Girls Basketball Coach
- Junior High Girls Head Basketball Coach
- Junior High Assistant Girls Basketball Coach
- Junior High Assistant Softball Coach
- Varsity Club Advisor
Positions Available: 2024-2025 School Year
Application Deadline: December 17, 2024
Qualified candidates should send a letter of interest and resume to:
Stacey Guenot, Assistant to the Superintendent
516 Allport Cutoff
Morrisdale, PA 16858
sguenot@westbranch.org
Must be able to obtain Acts 34, 114, 151 clearances.
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