Archuleta School District 50 Joint
TITLE:
Elementary School Instructional Aide
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Possess an Associate’s (or higher) degree; or have completed at least two years (48 credit hours) of study at an institution of higher education or have passed the Highly Qualified Assessments (Work-keys course, available on-line).
- Able to work efficiently with students with little supervision
- Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The work requires periods of light to moderate physical activity and requires long periods of time standing, sitting and/or walking. Typically the position requires the employee to work in a classroom environment or on the playground; lift and carry up to 50 pounds; reach, hold, grasp, and turn objects; and use fingers to operate computer or typewriter keyboards..
REPORTS TO:
Teacher
Building Principal
JOB GOAL:
To assist the teacher achieve teaching objectives by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole. To provide a well-organized, smoothly functioning class environment in which students can take full advantage of the instructional program and available resource materials.
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provides supervision for morning, breakfast, lunch and afternoon duty.
- Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individuals students.
- Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by 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.
- Helps students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher.
- 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, and field trips.
- Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up-to-date.
- Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and story-telling.
- Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
- Assists students in the library or media center.
- Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and make-up work, as assigned by the teacher.
- Checks and records student attendance.
- Collects and records collection of money.
- Helps students with their clothing.
- Assists with breakfast, lunch, snack, and cleanup routines.
- Assists with wash-up and toilet routines.
- 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.
- Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
- Participates in in-service training programs, as assigned.
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:
Salary: Based upon District’s adopted teacher aide salary schedule
Work Schedule: 175 days per year or as designated by the annual school calendar.
Benefits: Full benefits for full-time position. No benefits for part-time position
Hours: 7:25 a.m. – 3:25 p.m. for full-time position or set by the building principal
FLSA STATUS: non-exempt/classified
EVALUATION:
Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Classified Employees.
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