Aide, Headstart

Responsibilities

• Supports children in all activities, and assists when adult help is needed.
• Participates in daily, weekly, and long-range planning.
• Affixes instructional equipment and aids.
• Performs light custodial duties that relate to the safety and hygiene in the classroom and other environments accessed by the students under the direction of the teacher.
• Maintains student behavior using positive behavior supports and interventions in the classroom or lunchroom, on school grounds, and at off-campus activities under the direction of the teacher.
• Collects and maintains ongoing student data.
• Maintains current records.
• Engages in parent involvement activities, including but not limited to maintaining/updating parent areas (e.g., bulletin boards), posting parent training and announcements, and assisting with parent/volunteer training in classroom.
• Communicates positively and professionally among students, staff, and parents, as applicable per the direction of the teacher.
• Participates in ongoing professional development training.
• Performs any other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• One year of increasingly responsible experience in early childhood.
• Early childhood and bilingual experience preferred.
• Maintains an active Child Development Associate (CDA) credential or Florida Department of Education Child Care Apprenticeship Certificate.
• Maintains certification in First Aid and CPR.

Qualifications

• Reads and comprehends simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Writes simple correspondence.
• Effectively presents information in one-on-one and small group situations.
• Adds and subtracts two digit numbers and multiplies and divides with 10s and 100s.
• Uses units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.
• Applies understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Deals with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Uses Microsoft Office.

Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer.
• Accords preference to certain veterans and spouses of veterans who are Florida residents.

Pay

Salary schedules are available at: https://www.hillsboroughschools.org/employeerelations

Schedule

Job postings close at 7:00 p.m. on the posted Closing Date.