4th Grade Teaching Assistant - YES Prep Southwest Oaks Elementary (Immediate Opening)
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content.
We have job description: Title: Teaching Assistant. Not repeat title as heading.
We have sections: "THE ROLE" with bullet list of duties. That's responsibilities.
We have "THE PERSON" with traits, must haves, must have beliefs. That's qualifications/requirements/skills.
We have "THE PERKS" with compensation, health insurance, retirement, PTO, paid leave, professional development, award winning culture. That's benefits and maybe pay.
We also have "Compensation – This position is a non-exempt, hourly position; offers commensurate with experience." That's pay but vague "commensurate with experience" - we should not include Pay section if it's just "commensurate with experience" (no specific numbers). However earlier we saw "COMPENSATION: $15.25 - $20.52 per hour" in the header. That is specific pay range. So we have pay info: $15.25 - $20.52 per hour. So we should include Pay section with that.
Also schedule: "POSITION TYPE: 10-month START DATE: 26-27 School Year". That's schedule info: 10-month position, start date for 2026-27 school year. So we can include Schedule section.
Benefits: health insurance, retirement, PTO, paid leave, professional development, award winning culture. So Benefits section.
About the role: maybe we can have an "About the role" section summarizing mission? The description includes "At YES Prep, work for a mission..." That's about the organization. Could be About the role or About the company. We'll include About the role (or About the organization). The instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can include About the role.
We need to avoid repeating job title as heading. Also avoid Job ID etc.
We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose.
We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: EEO etc. At end there is EEO statement; we should drop that.
Also remove duplicated lines.
We need to include all substantive info: mission statement, quick stats, etc. Should we include quick stats? They are substantive info about the organization. Could be part of About the role.
We need to decide sections:
- About the role: include mission statement, quick stats, maybe description of YES Prep.
- Responsibilities: list of duties from THE ROLE.
- Requirements / Qualifications / Skills: Could combine. The instruction says we can have sections like Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We need to decide which to include based on content. We have "THE PERSON" with traits, must haves, must have beliefs. That's qualifications/requirements/skills. We could split into Requirements (must haves) and Skills (other traits). Or we could have Qualifications section covering both. Safer to include Requirements and Skills sections.
But we must not create thin sections with filler. Ensure each has real content.
Let's extract:
Must Haves (bullet list):
- High School Diploma
- At least 2 years of relevant work experience
- Interest in working one-on-one with a student with significant needs, including medical needs
- Ability to physically assist students with self-help, mobility, academic, and behavioral skills
- Belief in and commitment to the mission and core value of YES Prep Public Schools
- Openness to giving and receiving frequent feedback
- Ability to maintain emotional control under stress
- Ability to work urgently in a fast-paced and results-oriented environment
- Ability to juggle multiple tasks and initiatives at once
- Demonstrated ability to work on a team
- A dedication to learn, grow, and develop as a professional
Must Have Beliefs (list):
- Belief in and commitment to the mission and core value of YES Prep Public Schools
- Desire to disrupt systemic status quos in education
- Willingness to go above and beyond to disrupt said status quos
- Passion to develop resiliency through a relentless pursuit of jaw-dropping results
- Conviction that high expectations + high accountability = high performance and high growth
Other traits: passion for the mission, drive for results, care for students, resilience, humility.
We could put Requirements = Must Haves + Must Have Beliefs (maybe as qualifications). Skills = other traits (passion for mission, drive for results, care for students, resilience, humility). Or we could combine.
Better: Requirements section for Must Haves (hard requirements). Skills section for other traits (soft skills). Qualifications maybe not needed.
But we need to follow instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can include any of those that have content.
Thus we will have:
About the role
with paragraph(s) containing mission statement and quick stats.
Responsibilities
with - list of duties.
Requirements
with - list of Must Haves.
Skills
with - list of other traits (passion for mission, drive for results, care for students, resilience, humility) plus maybe Must Have Beliefs? But beliefs could be part of Requirements or Skills. Might be better to put Must Have Beliefs under Requirements as they are beliefs. But we already have Requirements for Must Haves. Could add another subsection? But we cannot create nested headings. Could combine Must Haves and Must Have Beliefs into Requirements. Then Skills for other traits.
Let's do:
Requirements: Must Haves + Must Have Beliefs (combined list). That's substantive.
Skills: Passion for mission, drive for results, care for students, resilience, humility.
Now Benefits: list from THE PERKS: health and supplemental insurance details, retirement plans, PTO, paid leave programming, professional development, award winning culture.
Pay: $15.25 - $20.52 per hour.
Schedule: POSITION TYPE: 10-month; START DATE: 26-27 School Year.
We also have "Compensation – This position is a non-exempt, hourly position; offers commensurate with experience." That's redundant with pay range; we can ignore as it's not adding new specifics.
Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like EEO statement.
Now produce HTML fragment.
We need to wrap each section in
and then content.
For About the role: we can have a
containing mission statement and quick stats. Possibly separate paragraphs.
Mission statement: "At YES Prep, work for a mission that impacts the life trajectory of students and their families. YES Prep creates pathways to extraordinary opportunity through best-in-class development, competitive compensation and benefits, and recognition for your impact. Grow as an authentic leader and be part of a high-performing, team-oriented culture."
Quick stats: list of stats. Could be a
- but they are not duties; they are stats. Could be
with sentences. But instruction: use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Stats are not duties/requirements/benefits, but could be considered a list. Safer to put them in
as sentences.
We'll combine:
At YES Prep, work for a mission that impacts the life trajectory of students and their families. YES Prep creates pathways to extraordinary opportunity through best-in-class development, competitive compensation and benefits, and recognition for your impact. Grow as an authentic leader and be part of a high-performing, team-oriented culture. Some Quick Stats About Us: 21,650 Students, 2,600 Team Members, 16 Secondary Campuses, 12 Elementary Campuses, 91% Students Who Qualify for Free/Reduced-Price Lunch, 96% Hispanic & African-American Students, 99% Students Who Are Accepted to a 4-Year University, 85% First-Generation College Students, Ranked in the Top 100 High Schools in the Nation, U.S. News & World Report. We serve the students of Houston, Texas, the 4th largest city across the United States. There are over 20 public-school districts and other great public charter school options within Houston’s city limits serving our increasing population.
Now Responsibilities: list from THE ROLE. We'll copy each duty exactly as given, preserving punctuation.
Duties list:
- Assisting Special Education and General Education Teacher(s) with the supervision of students in all instructional settings;
- Assisting Special Education and General Education Teacher(s) with behavior management techniques by demonstrating, modeling, and positively reinforcing desired behaviors;
- Maintaining data as identified by teacher(s), students’ IEP goals, and/or Behavior Intervention Plans;
- Assisting in tailoring lessons to meet an individual student’s needs;
- Supporting Special Education and General Education teacher(s) with lesson plans by practicing and reinforcing learning concepts;
- Assisting students in performing self-help and academic skills;
- Assisting with administration and scoring of tests and work assignments;
- Assisting Special Education and General Education Teacher(s) with implementation of accommodations and/or modifications;
- Adapting classroom activities, assignments, and/or materials to support and reinforce classroom objectives;
- Monitoring students during transition times throughout the school day, inside and outside of the classroom;
- Additional duties as assigned.
Note each ends with semicolon except last maybe period. We'll keep as is.
Now Requirements: Must Haves + Must Have Beliefs.
List Must Haves:
- High School Diploma
- At least 2 years of relevant work experience
- Interest in working one-on-one with a student with significant needs, including medical needs
- Ability to physically assist students with self-help, mobility, academic, and behavioral skills
- Belief in and commitment to the mission and core value of YES Prep Public Schools
- Openness to giving and receiving frequent feedback
- Ability to maintain emotional control under stress
- Ability to work urgently in a fast-paced and results-oriented environment
- Ability to juggle multiple tasks and initiatives at once
- Demonstrated ability to work on a team
- A dedication to learn, grow, and develop as a professional
Must Have Beliefs:
- Belief in and commitment to the mission and core value of YES Prep Public Schools
- Desire to disrupt systemic status quos in education
- Willingness to go above and beyond to disrupt said status quos
- Passion to develop resiliency through a relentless pursuit of jaw-dropping results
- Conviction that high expectations + high accountability = high performance and high growth
Note Belief in and commitment appears twice; we can keep both but it's duplicate. Might deduplicate? Instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Duplicate lines are substantive? They are repeated; we could keep both but it's redundant. Might be okay to keep both; but we could note it's duplicate but still preserve. I'd keep both as they appear.
Now Skills: other traits: passion for the mission, drive for results, care for students, resilience, humility.
We'll list as bullet points.
Now Benefits: list from THE PERKS.
We need to extract each benefit:
- Compensation – This position is a non-exempt, hourly position; offers commensurate with experience. (But we already have Pay section; we might not repeat compensation here; but Benefits section should include health insurance, retirement, PTO, paid leave, professional development, award winning culture. The compensation line is more about pay; we already have Pay section. So we can omit that line from Benefits to avoid duplication. However we need to
for prose. We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: EEO etc. At end there is EEO statement; we should drop that. Also remove duplicated lines. We need to include all substantive info: mission statement, quick stats, etc. Should we include quick stats? They are substantive info about the organization. Could be part of About the role. We need to decide sections: - About the role: include mission statement, quick stats, maybe description of YES Prep. - Responsibilities: list of duties from THE ROLE. - Requirements / Qualifications / Skills: Could combine. The instruction says we can have sections like Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We need to decide which to include based on content. We have "THE PERSON" with traits, must haves, must have beliefs. That's qualifications/requirements/skills. We could split into Requirements (must haves) and Skills (other traits). Or we could have Qualifications section covering both. Safer to include Requirements and Skills sections. But we must not create thin sections with filler. Ensure each has real content. Let's extract: Must Haves (bullet list): - High School Diploma - At least 2 years of relevant work experience - Interest in working one-on-one with a student with significant needs, including medical needs - Ability to physically assist students with self-help, mobility, academic, and behavioral skills - Belief in and commitment to the mission and core value of YES Prep Public Schools - Openness to giving and receiving frequent feedback - Ability to maintain emotional control under stress - Ability to work urgently in a fast-paced and results-oriented environment - Ability to juggle multiple tasks and initiatives at once - Demonstrated ability to work on a team - A dedication to learn, grow, and develop as a professional Must Have Beliefs (list): - Belief in and commitment to the mission and core value of YES Prep Public Schools - Desire to disrupt systemic status quos in education - Willingness to go above and beyond to disrupt said status quos - Passion to develop resiliency through a relentless pursuit of jaw-dropping results - Conviction that high expectations + high accountability = high performance and high growth Other traits: passion for the mission, drive for results, care for students, resilience, humility. We could put Requirements = Must Haves + Must Have Beliefs (maybe as qualifications). Skills = other traits (passion for mission, drive for results, care for students, resilience, humility). Or we could combine. Better: Requirements section for Must Haves (hard requirements). Skills section for other traits (soft skills). Qualifications maybe not needed. But we need to follow instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can include any of those that have content. Thus we will have:
About the role
with paragraph(s) containing mission statement and quick stats.Responsibilities
with- list of duties.
Requirements
with- list of Must Haves.
Skills
with- list of other traits (passion for mission, drive for results, care for students, resilience, humility) plus maybe Must Have Beliefs? But beliefs could be part of Requirements or Skills. Might be better to put Must Have Beliefs under Requirements as they are beliefs. But we already have Requirements for Must Haves. Could add another subsection? But we cannot create nested headings. Could combine Must Haves and Must Have Beliefs into Requirements. Then Skills for other traits.
Let's do:
Requirements: Must Haves + Must Have Beliefs (combined list). That's substantive.
Skills: Passion for mission, drive for results, care for students, resilience, humility.
Now Benefits: list from THE PERKS: health and supplemental insurance details, retirement plans, PTO, paid leave programming, professional development, award winning culture.
Pay: $15.25 - $20.52 per hour.
Schedule: POSITION TYPE: 10-month; START DATE: 26-27 School Year.
We also have "Compensation – This position is a non-exempt, hourly position; offers commensurate with experience." That's redundant with pay range; we can ignore as it's not adding new specifics.
Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like EEO statement.
Now produce HTML fragment.
We need to wrap each section in
and then content. For About the role: we can have a
containing mission statement and quick stats. Possibly separate paragraphs. Mission statement: "At YES Prep, work for a mission that impacts the life trajectory of students and their families. YES Prep creates pathways to extraordinary opportunity through best-in-class development, competitive compensation and benefits, and recognition for your impact. Grow as an authentic leader and be part of a high-performing, team-oriented culture." Quick stats: list of stats. Could be a
- but they are not duties; they are stats. Could be
with sentences. But instruction: use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Stats are not duties/requirements/benefits, but could be considered a list. Safer to put them in
as sentences. We'll combine:
At YES Prep, work for a mission that impacts the life trajectory of students and their families. YES Prep creates pathways to extraordinary opportunity through best-in-class development, competitive compensation and benefits, and recognition for your impact. Grow as an authentic leader and be part of a high-performing, team-oriented culture. Some Quick Stats About Us: 21,650 Students, 2,600 Team Members, 16 Secondary Campuses, 12 Elementary Campuses, 91% Students Who Qualify for Free/Reduced-Price Lunch, 96% Hispanic & African-American Students, 99% Students Who Are Accepted to a 4-Year University, 85% First-Generation College Students, Ranked in the Top 100 High Schools in the Nation, U.S. News & World Report. We serve the students of Houston, Texas, the 4th largest city across the United States. There are over 20 public-school districts and other great public charter school options within Houston’s city limits serving our increasing population.
Now Responsibilities: list from THE ROLE. We'll copy each duty exactly as given, preserving punctuation. Duties list: - Assisting Special Education and General Education Teacher(s) with the supervision of students in all instructional settings; - Assisting Special Education and General Education Teacher(s) with behavior management techniques by demonstrating, modeling, and positively reinforcing desired behaviors; - Maintaining data as identified by teacher(s), students’ IEP goals, and/or Behavior Intervention Plans; - Assisting in tailoring lessons to meet an individual student’s needs; - Supporting Special Education and General Education teacher(s) with lesson plans by practicing and reinforcing learning concepts; - Assisting students in performing self-help and academic skills; - Assisting with administration and scoring of tests and work assignments; - Assisting Special Education and General Education Teacher(s) with implementation of accommodations and/or modifications; - Adapting classroom activities, assignments, and/or materials to support and reinforce classroom objectives; - Monitoring students during transition times throughout the school day, inside and outside of the classroom; - Additional duties as assigned. Note each ends with semicolon except last maybe period. We'll keep as is. Now Requirements: Must Haves + Must Have Beliefs. List Must Haves: - High School Diploma - At least 2 years of relevant work experience - Interest in working one-on-one with a student with significant needs, including medical needs - Ability to physically assist students with self-help, mobility, academic, and behavioral skills - Belief in and commitment to the mission and core value of YES Prep Public Schools - Openness to giving and receiving frequent feedback - Ability to maintain emotional control under stress - Ability to work urgently in a fast-paced and results-oriented environment - Ability to juggle multiple tasks and initiatives at once - Demonstrated ability to work on a team - A dedication to learn, grow, and develop as a professional Must Have Beliefs: - Belief in and commitment to the mission and core value of YES Prep Public Schools - Desire to disrupt systemic status quos in education - Willingness to go above and beyond to disrupt said status quos - Passion to develop resiliency through a relentless pursuit of jaw-dropping results - Conviction that high expectations + high accountability = high performance and high growth Note Belief in and commitment appears twice; we can keep both but it's duplicate. Might deduplicate? Instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Duplicate lines are substantive? They are repeated; we could keep both but it's redundant. Might be okay to keep both; but we could note it's duplicate but still preserve. I'd keep both as they appear. Now Skills: other traits: passion for the mission, drive for results, care for students, resilience, humility. We'll list as bullet points. Now Benefits: list from THE PERKS. We need to extract each benefit: - Compensation – This position is a non-exempt, hourly position; offers commensurate with experience. (But we already have Pay section; we might not repeat compensation here; but Benefits section should include health insurance, retirement, PTO, paid leave, professional development, award winning culture. The compensation line is more about pay; we already have Pay section. So we can omit that line from Benefits to avoid duplication. However we need to
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Stats are not duties/requirements/benefits, but could be considered a list. Safer to put them in
- but they are not duties; they are stats. Could be
- list of other traits (passion for mission, drive for results, care for students, resilience, humility) plus maybe Must Have Beliefs? But beliefs could be part of Requirements or Skills. Might be better to put Must Have Beliefs under Requirements as they are beliefs. But we already have Requirements for Must Haves. Could add another subsection? But we cannot create nested headings. Could combine Must Haves and Must Have Beliefs into Requirements. Then Skills for other traits.
Let's do:
Requirements: Must Haves + Must Have Beliefs (combined list). That's substantive.
Skills: Passion for mission, drive for results, care for students, resilience, humility.
Now Benefits: list from THE PERKS: health and supplemental insurance details, retirement plans, PTO, paid leave programming, professional development, award winning culture.
Pay: $15.25 - $20.52 per hour.
Schedule: POSITION TYPE: 10-month; START DATE: 26-27 School Year.
We also have "Compensation – This position is a non-exempt, hourly position; offers commensurate with experience." That's redundant with pay range; we can ignore as it's not adding new specifics.
Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like EEO statement.
Now produce HTML fragment.
We need to wrap each section in
- list of Must Haves.