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Job Description
Position Type:
Paraprofessionals/Technical Tutor
Date Posted:
10/2/2025
Location:
Denfeld High School
(High-Needs School)
Closing Date:
10/10/2025
Technical Tutor (Culinary Program)
Denfeld High School
10hrs per week/38 weeks per year
Monday - Friday
Minimum Qualifications:
- High school diploma or GED certificate;
- 60 semester or 90 quarter college credits OR a passing score on the ParaPro Assessment Test;
- One year of experience in restaurant operations, food service industry, or closely related field area;
- Experience assisting with teaching culinary/cooking skills
Knowledge/Skills Requirements:
- Knowledge of and skills in restaurant cooking, structures and procedures.
- Knowledge of teaching secondary students cooking techniques and culinary skills.
- Knowledge of large kitchen equipment maintenance, safety and minor repairs.
- Knowledge of restaurant management, including but not limited to purchasing, receiving and ordering food products; cashiering; budgeting; catering.
- Knowledge of safe handling of food, food preparation, food safety and sanitary procedures.
- Knowledgeable in the philosophies and practices of vocational education.
- Considerable knowledge of grammar, including sentence structure.
- General knowledge of special education and areas of disabilities and providing support to emotionally-behaviorally disadvantaged students.
- Demonstrated ability to learn all aspects of the course including classroom materials.
- Presenting classroom or lab lessons to individual student or groups of students.
- Communication and Interpersonal skills.
- Technical skills in cooking and serving food and drink.
- Skill in use of cash register and/or point of sale software/equipment.
- Critical thinking skills.
- Basic skills in reading, mathematics and other content areas.
- Demonstrated ability to assess and make decisions about student behavior.
- Demonstrated ability to be flexible.
Additional Information:
This position will be working in the Culinary Program at Denfeld High School.
Actual start and end times to be coordinated with the Instructor.
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ABOUT THE COMPANY
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Duluth Public Schools
Show moreDuluth, or Onigamiising in Ojibwe, is the seat of St. Louis County, the largest city in the northern two-thirds of Minnesota, and the fourth largest city in the state. It is located on the western tip of Lake Superior and its city limits encompass 67 square miles of land and nearly 50 square miles of water. It is part of the Twin Ports metropolitan statistical area which includes all of Wisconsin's Douglas County, and Minnesota's Carlton, Lake, and Saint Louis counties which boasts a population of 291,638, ranked as the 170th largest metropolitan area in the United States.
After years of building economic diversity, Duluth is growing into a robust regional economic, medical, aviation, higher education, outdoor recreation and arts center. Duluth has long been recognized as an innovative region that is supported by a wide variety of services and industries, including the largest, farthest inland freshwater port, the Port of Duluth-Superior.
The city also boasts a vibrant arts culture, home to art museums, theater, and numerous festivals throughout the year. It is the home of two colleges and a university whose local sports teams include nationally ranked and championship teams.
Duluth Public Schools offers an excellent, competitive and comprehensive benefits program, which includes medical, prescription drug, dental, life, and disability coverage. A pension plan, tax-sheltered annuities program, flexible spending accounts (FSA), health care savings plan and employee assistance program round out the district’s robust benefits program.
The district pays a significant portion of the premium for medical hospitalization, dental and prescription coverage for employees and dependents and offers Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) funding.
The district also has generous provisions for vacation, holidays, family and medical leave and other types of paid and unpaid leave. The district recently added Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth to our list of paid holidays.
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