Fort Wayne Community Schools | Support Staff Substitute

School Assistant

School Assistant assignments include:

• Assist a certified teacher in facilitating instruction to individual or small groups of students in a classroom environment.
• Absorb students in classroom assignments, homework, and projects in various subject areas.
• Answer questions and provide proper examples, emotional support, friendly attitude, and general guidance to students.
• Observe and implement positive intervention strategies with students in the classroom according to approved procedures.
• Maintain classroom and other assigned areas in a safe, orderly, and clean manner.
• Perform related duties as assigned by Administrator to meet the particular needs of the building/unit.

Special Education Assistant

Special Education Assistant assignments include:

• Assist a certified teacher in facilitating instruction to individual or small groups of students in a classroom environment.
• Absorb students in classroom assignments, homework, and projects in various subject areas.
• Answer questions and provide proper examples, emotional support, friendly attitude, and general guidance to students.
• Accompany and assist students in mainstreamed classes as assigned.
• Escort students to and from buses and classes; push student wheelchairs; lift students in and out of wheelchairs.
• Provide behavioral supports for students in the classroom according to established policies and procedures; monitor students during outdoor activities and field trips as required.
• Aid students with performing and developing independent living, organizational, communication, social, and self-help skills as assigned; assist students with handling educational materials; assist students with eating activities as needed.
• Maintain classroom and other assigned areas in a safe, orderly, and clean manner.
• Perform related duties as assigned by Administrator to meet the particular needs of the building/unit.
• Able to lift, carry, and push students in wheelchairs as assigned.

Secretarial/Media Clerk

Secretarial/Media Clerk assignments include:

• Assist with a variety of secretarial, clerical, or media center tasks including but not limited to answering phones, receiving visitors, entering data on computers, organizing records and files, and maintaining a safe, orderly, and clean work area.
• Perform related duties as assigned by Administrator to meet the particular needs of the building/unit.

Nutrition Services

Nutrition Services assignments include:

• Assist with preparing and serving food items according to established procedures and standards.
• Safely operate standard food service equipment.
• Absorb cleaning and maintaining food service facilities and equipment.
• Perform related duties as assigned by Administrator to meet the particular needs of the building/unit.

Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to speak and hear. The employee is required to have dexterity of hands and fingers. The employee is required to sit or stand for extended periods of time. They may be occasionally required to bend at the waist, kneel, or crouch. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this job the incumbent is seated or walking at will. The incumbent will be required to lift, carry, and/or push students weighing 50 pounds or more. While performing the duties of this job the employee is frequently exposed to outside weather conditions. Must be able to push, pull, lift, and carry up to 50 pounds on occasion. While performing the duties of this job the employee is seated or walking at will and has limited physical labor.