ELD Instructional Aide

About the role

Work under the direction of a certificated staff member to support and assist in providing instructional programs and services to students. Services may be provided in a special education class, regular education class, or other instructional setting.

Responsibilities

• Provides one-on-one or group review of material taught by certificated staff, as assigned.
• Assists with classroom management and implementation of individual students' support plans.
• Assists the student(s) in curriculum tasks, guiding, helping and reinforcing/rephrasing instruction and providing assistance during testing as directed by teacher(s).
• Assembles materials needed by teacher(s) for daily instruction or student homework and makes any adaptations, as necessary per individual student' needs as directed by teacher(s).
• Assists with morning and afternoon bus duty, morning and afternoon hall duty, morning cafeteria duty and lunch duty, assists with students being dropped off by parents, and/or any other assigned duties by Building Principal.
• Abides by applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations, guidelines and District policies and administrative regulations.
• Familiarizes self with assigned student(s) needs including accommodations in area of responsibility.
• Accompanies students on field trips and community-based instruction activities, upon request of the Building Administrative Team.
• Attends training as required for performance of the job.
• Completes and provides evidence of twenty (20) hours per school year of staff development activities related to his/her assignment.
• Monitors student's progress, as deemed appropriate, during regular or special class performance and group work, prompting, assisting or redirecting, as directed by a teacher, during teacher instruction or independent work periods.
• Prepares journals/assignment books and assists with organizational needs on a daily basis including monitoring assignment book and gathering homework materials.
• Collects and reports data related to support plans and health issues as directed by teacher(s).
• Collects data and keep daily communication information as directed to be reviewed by teacher(s) before being sent to parent(s).
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected in the classroom teachers.
• Maintains confidentiality with all District information, including District and school population information.
• Performs other duties as assigned in accordance with school policy, administrative regulations, state and federal laws.

Requirements

Required Documents: Child Abuse, PA State Criminal History and FBI Fingerprint Clearances as required by PA School Code at time of hire.

Benefits and Compensation

LOCATION: Melrose Elementary

SALARY/HOURS: $18.02 hr/ 8hrs/189-day work year

BENEFITS: In Accordance with the AFSCME contract