Instructional Assistant - Essential Skills

TITLE: Instructional Assistant - Essential Skills

QUALIFICATIONS: Minimum of two years of college, or two years of experience working with children in an instructional setting

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: 72 days

STATUS: Non-Exempt

REPORTS TO: Building Principal and Classroom Teacher

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

Duties And Responsibilities

Participates in classroom activity planning.

Conducts learning exercises with small groups of children and individual students.

Guides children in working and playing harmoniously with other children.

Helps maintain individual records for each child.

Assists the teacher in maintaining neat work and study areas.

Assists with the supervision of children during regular play periods and lunch supervision.

Assists with daily living skills, which may include toileting

Participate in specific training identified by the administration

Follows individual behavior plans

Attends community-based instructional activities

Completes annual employee training

Maintains consistent attendance

Performs other duties as assigned

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Requires the ability to sit with intermittent occasional walking, standing, bending, and squatting

Requires the ability to stoop, reach, grab, pull, hear, see, and speak on a daily basis

Requires the ability to perform repetitive physical tasks such as computer keyboarding, writing, and reading

Occasionally required to lift or carry supplies, textbooks, furniture, and equipment of a minimum of 35 pounds

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Standard office and school conditions - Moderate noise level in the work environment, adequate lighting, and comfortable temperatures

May have to monitor students in a variety of locations, including those with noise, activity, and inclement weather

Occasional high to moderate levels of stress

$20/hour Tuesday and Thursday