The purpose of the position is to provide physical and educational care in a childcare environment for students aged 6 weeks to 48 months. Employees in this classification work with children individually, small and/or whole group. Provide basic instruction in abilities and skills developmentally appropriate to infant and toddler age children.
EXAMPLES OF ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Responds to internal and external customers in a timely, accurate, courteous, and empathetic manner representing OCPS in a positive light.
Provides all physical care for children ages 6 weeks to 48 months to include feeding, diapering, hygiene, cleanup and safety.
Maintains an organized, clean, and safe classroom environment as required by the Department of Children and Families Guidelines for Childcare Facilities.
Monitors activities and behavior of infant and toddler age children. Ensure their safety, physically and environmentally, as well as adherence to appropriate conduct and disciplinary controls.
Develops, leads, and implements activities using school curriculum that complies with district and state standards. May utilize games, stories, or other constructive activities to enhance learning skills.
Communicates daily all relevant information to parents. Maintain developmental profiles for each child which may include developmental milestone checklists.
Models and facilitates the development of gross motor activities such as grasping, holding objects, posture, crawling, walking, and running; and fine motor activities such as playing with toys, cutting materials, or coloring.
Prepares developmentally appropriate lesson plans that include appropriate activities and learning tools.
Conducts student observations and apprise the supervising teacher of potential learning or communication deficiencies; monitors children’s progressive learning skills; documents record of learning activities.
Prepares instructional materials; performs support tasks such as copying materials, laminating items, typing correspondence, and filing paperwork and documentation.
Coordinates with supervising teacher for classroom learning resources; sets up equipment in classroom for instruction. Prepares classroom bulletin boards, classroom decorations, displays of children’s activities, and other classroom objectives.
Maintains accurate and complete records of a variety of data, which includes attendance and daily reports, which may require the use of a computer to enter scores and other children’s data.
May be assigned monitoring duties, i.e., hallways, lunchroom, restrooms, and bus duty; ensures appropriate student conduct during these periods.
Responsible for transporting children to various scheduled activities, i.e., lunch, rest time, restrooms.
Responsible for keeping up to date on current technology, as job appropriate, being used by OCPS. With the support of the district, attends training to ensure skill level in various technologies is at the level required to perform in current position.
Responsible for timely and accurate information they maintain as part of their job responsibilities.
The list of essential functions, as outlined herein, is intended to be representative of the tasks performed within this classification. It is not necessarily descriptive of any one position in the class. The omission of an essential function does not preclude management from assigning duties not listed herein if such functions are a logical assignment to the position.
MARGINAL FUNCTIONS
While the following tasks are necessary for the work of the unit, they are not an essential part of the purpose of this position and may also be performed by other unit members.
Performs related duties as directed.
MINIMUM TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Associate’s degree or higher; or at least sixty (60) semester hours from an accredited institution of higher education (official transcript required to validate education) or passing the paraprofessional certification exam (e.g., ParaPro Assessment) can substitute for the educational requirement to meet the highly qualified status. All applicants for this position must be highly qualified prior to the start of their employment with Orange County Public Schools or obtain the highly qualified status within one (1) year of hire. Ability to fulfill the dexterity and physical requirements of the work, and effectively attend to the needs of pre-school age children; previous vocational training or work experience in a licensed childcare environment preferred.
Department of Children and Families (DCF) 40-Hour Childcare Facility Training, as well as Pediatric CPR and First-Aid certifications are required. Applicants without this training must begin training within the first 90 days of employment. The 40-hour training must be completed within 1 year from the start date of the training. Childcare personnel must pass competency exams for the 40 hours of training or receive an educational exemption. Must be able to pass the DCF Background Screening.
Child Development Associate (CDA) or Staff Credential are preferred.
For more information about the ParaPro Assessment visit www.ets.org/parapro.
PERFORMANCE APTITUDES
Data Utilization: Requires the ability to arrange, compare, count, differentiate, measure and/or sort data and/or information. Includes judging whether readily observable functional, structural or compositional characteristics are similar to or divergent from prescribed standards, procedures or routines.
Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide guidance, assistance, and/or interpretation to others on how to apply procedures and standards to specific situations.
Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of standard office equipment.
Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference data and information.
Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Functional Reasoning: Requires ability to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Involves routine work according to clearly prescribed standard practices, with some latitude for independent judgment.
Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving a variety of generally pre-defined duties which are often characterized by frequent change.
ADA COMPLIANCE
Physical Ability: Tasks involve the ability to exert very moderate physical effort in light work, typically involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling, and which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (12-20 pounds).
Sensory Requirements: Most tasks require visual perception and discrimination. Some tasks require oral communications ability. Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate sounds.
Environmental Factors: Tasks are regularly performed without exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, animals/wildlife, toxic/poisonous agents, violence, disease, or pathogenic substances.
The Orange County School District will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to allow them to perform the essential functions of the job when such individuals request accommodation.
07/01/2025
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