General Education Instructional Assistant

About the role

To provide assistance to teachers, secretaries, and clerical personnel when needed.

Responsibilities

• Administers, scores, and records achievement and diagnostic tests as recommended by the teacher for individual students;
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes;
• Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other instructional materials;
• Assists with supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips;
• Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and makeup work as assigned by the teacher;
• Works with individual students or small groups to reinforce learning of material or skills;
• Follows safety rules and proper procedures associated with the responsibilities of the job;
• Checks and records attendance;
• Arranges bulletin boards;
• Types and duplicates tests, worksheets, and supplementary materials;
• Assists in supervising children in the lunchroom, playground, and bus loading;
• Assists the teacher in preparing materials for class displays;
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Not less than a high school education or general equivalency diploma;
• Para Professional Test required without 48 hours of college;
• At least one year of experience is preferred, but not required;
• Meets necessary health and physical qualifications.

Physical Demands

This job requires lifting objects exceeding 50 lbs., or the average weight of a child if assigned to elementary grades, with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 25 lbs or more. Other physical demands may include:

• Pushing and/or pulling;
• Climbing;
• Stooping, kneeling, and/or crawling;
• Reaching;
• Talking;
• Hearing;
• Seeing.

Vocational Preparation

The required vocational preparation may come from any of the following:

• Vocational education;
• Apprentice training;
• On-the-job training;
• Essential experience in other jobs.

Temperament (Personal traits)

• Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure;
• Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria;
• Adaptability to dealing with students;
• Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria.

Capacity And Ability Requirements

• Intelligence: The ability to understand instructions and underlying principles; ability to reason and make judgments;
• Verbal: Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them;
• Manual Dexterity: Ability to move the hands easily and skillfully;
• Form Perception: Ability to make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures;
• Color Discrimination: Ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades of other values of the same color.

Work Conditions

Normal working environment.