Instructional Aide I - Gary Knox

Assistant Teacher

To assist the teacher in maintaining appropriate classroom activities and environment in order that students may learn effectively.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests and abilities.
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
• Distributes and collects workbooks, papers and other materials for instruction.
• Guides independent study, enrichment work and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
• Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, lunch periods and field trips.
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
• Participates in inservice training programs as assigned.
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
• Assists with lunch, snack and cleanup routines.
• Performs clerical tasks.
• Performs other related duties as required by supervisor.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Sixty (60) college credits or a passing score on the ParaPro Assessment exam taken within the last 10 years required.
• Previous experience working with students preferred.
• Ability to work harmoniously with staff and students.

Reports To: Principal

Terms Of Employment: Work year, salary and benefits as established by the Board.

Evaluation: Performance of this job shall be evaluated by the building principal in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on evaluation of classified personnel.

Application Instructions:

• Required upload at application, missing items will disqualify application:
• High school diploma or GED required.
• Sixty (60) college credits or a passing score on the ParaPro Assessment exam taken within the last 10 years required.