Aide, Bilingual Spanish

Responsibilities

• Participates in meetings, training involving maintenance and monitoring of the program, comprehensible instruction of English language learners, FTE, FLDOE and USDOE compliance monitoring, parent involvement, and community outreach activities.
• Affords assistance in administering individual and group student tests in appropriate heritage language or English, under the direct supervision of a classroom teacher.
• Works with small groups of students, implementing teacher-developed lesson plans, under the direct supervision of a classroom teacher.
• Affords assistance to the ELL Committee Chairperson, FTE Administrator, and the ESOL Resource Teacher with the completion and maintenance of all required program records.
• Affords assistance in the implementation of instructional resources and appropriate accommodations to curriculum and assessment materials, under the direct supervision of a classroom teacher.
• Translates basic home/school communication to parents.
• Affords assistance in acquainting parents with program personnel and services available at the individual school site.
• Works closely with school and district personnel in the establishment of both the Parent Leadership Council (PLC) and the District Advisory Council (DAC).
• Performs any other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• One (1) year of increasingly responsible experience in education, child care, or related field.
• Must be considered highly qualified per the United States Department of Education and Florida’s Differentiated Accountability Model.
• To be Highly Qualified Instructional Paraprofessionals (Support Staff), must meet one of the following criteria: An associate’s degree or higher – Q-NCLB-A, completed 60 semester hours or two years of study at an institution of higher education- Q-NCLB-B, or passed the ParaPro Test with a score of 457 or higher – Q-NCLB-C.
• Fluency in English and the appropriate heritage language.
• Mastery in the areas of oral language, reading, and writing skills as a screening conducted by the district.