General Education Teacher Assistant - Northview Elementary
Beginning with the 2026/27 school year, a valid Illinois Paraprofessional License is required to apply. Use the link below for information on how to obtain your license.
Minimum Starting Salary: 0 yrs of experience with High School Diploma $18.57/hr 0 yrs of experience with Associates Degree - $19.60/hr 0 yrs of experience with Bachelors Degree - $20.63/hr Maximum Starting Salary: 30 yrs of experience with High School Diploma - $28.56/hr 30yrs of experience with Associates Degree - $29.60/hr 30 yrs of experience with Bachelors Degree - $30.65/hr
General Qualifications
- Must have 60 hours college course credits or have passed a State approved test granting Para-professional certification.
- Possess strong communication skills (written and oral).
- Proficiency in native language of bilingual and English, including able to write and speak in both languages fluently and grammatically correct.
- Live in or be familiar with the surrounding community.
Essential Job Skills
- Translate between the native language of bilingual and English in classroom, meeting, or phone call situations with students, parents and teachers.
- Translate documents from native language of bilingual to English correctly.
- Administer, score, and record achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
- Work with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
- Assist the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
- Help students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher.
- Guide independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
- Assist with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
- Assist with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and story telling.
- Read to students, listen to students read, and participate in other forms of oral communication with students.
- Assist students in the library or media center.
- Check notebooks, correct papers, and supervise testing and make-up work as assigned by the teacher.
- Help students with their clothing.
- Assist with lunch, snack and clean-up routines.
- Assist with wash-up and toilet routines.
- Alert the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
- Serve as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
- Maintain the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
- Participate in inservice training programs as assigned.
- Other responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.
Mental Demands
Ability to communicate effectively with parents, students, teachers, administration and community members. Ability to maintain emotional control under stress. Ability to use e-mail and office equipment effectively. Ability to work with students individually or in group settings.
Working Conditions
Indoor classrooms/School exposure to: student noise, lawn mowing, music, odors of food, mowed grass and possible communicable diseases. Outdoor schoolyard and grounds, field trips: exposure to temperatures (hot, warm, cool & cold) and exposure to mowed grass. Regular work attendance.
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