ADM Middle School Associate 26-27

Job Summary

The associate role is one to assist the teacher in supporting specific learning goals by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve appropriate skill levels.

Responsibilities

• Work with individual students or in small groups to help achieve skills and understanding of class material
• Work with a wide range of various needs, including academic, behavior and social
• Examples: Reads to students, listens to students read and participates in other forms of oral communication with the students
• Guides each student toward making appropriate choices and accepting responsibility for their own behavior
• Affirming the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on an understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information regarding an individual student
• Supervises students outside during arrival, recess, dismissal and may provide lunchroom supervision

Qualifications

• A high school diploma
• Demonstrated aptitude for the work to be performed
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Ability to work well with staff, parents, and students