u/katplatt

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Hey everyone! I'm posting this on behalf of my mom who doesn't have a Reddit account.

My mom just turned 64 years old and would like to get back to working in special education. She previously worked in an elementary school for 4 years and a high school for 8 years as a special ed additional assistant, although she only worked with one student at a time. She loves working with older students on the autism spectrum, so she wants to target high school jobs. Between 2019 and 2025, she moved from Maryland to Pennsylvania to take care of her parents as a live-in caregiver, so there's a 6-year gap of when she wasn't working in schools. She has only ever worked in Maryland schools and it seems that PA schools go by the title paraprofessional or paraeducator in our local school districts (Berks County, if that matters).

1. Do PA schools typically have one-on-one support, or do they assign you by need per diem?
2. When do PA schools post special education para jobs? A couple of the school districts have extended year jobs, but nothing for the 2026-27 school year yet.
3. She has two bachelor's degrees and a master's degree. When she applied to the elementary and high school jobs, she included both of these degrees. She's worried about including them on her current resume because of possibly looking overqualified on top of her age. Should she include all of her degrees, or will she look overqualified and turned away?

If this isn't the right place to post, let me know. Thank you :)

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