Assistant Teacher Non-Certified 1st Grade - Longleaf Elementary School

Duties And Responsibilities

• Direct any activity that will free the supervising teacher for instruction
• Meet and instruct assigned classes at the assigned school and at times designated by teacher and principal
• Participate in daily and long-range lesson and classroom activity planning
• Guide small groups of students in independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work to reinforce material initially introduced by the supervising teacher
• Guide children in working and playing harmoniously with other children
• Keep desks, books, papers, materials, and supplies in order and use educational media
• Alert the teacher to special needs of individual children
• Provide assistance to and escort children as necessary
• Help maintain individual records for each child
• Foster good eating habits and table manners in children
• Aid teacher in maintaining neat work and study areas
• Check notebooks, correct papers, and help supervise makeup work and testing as assigned by the supervising teacher
• Assist with the supervision of children during regular play periods
• Collect and display suitable material for educational displays
• Participate in staff development to be equipped with the skills required to assist teachers in carrying out district initiatives
• Maintain and accept responsibility for any district owned fixed asset items assigned to employee and ensure appropriate use by following district policies for acceptable use
• Maintain confidentiality

Qualifications

• Education level: Associates degree or higher from an accredited college. Minimum of 48 hours of college credit from an accredited college or pass a Work Keys test as determined by the Mississippi Department of Education.

Physical Demands

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully.
• The employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands for fine manipulation, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms using equipment such as a keyboard and video display panel.
• The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, reach, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must regularly lift and move up to 35 pounds and occasionally up to 75 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

Work Environment

• The work environment is not a standard office setting; but rather encompasses the entire active school campus both inside and outside the facilities.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate and occasionally high.