Instructional Assistant - 1st Grade, Track 3

About the role

The Instructional Assistant (IA) supports classroom teachers in various activities and creates a safe, healthy, and encouraging environment for students.

Responsibilities

• Aids teachers with planning and organizing lessons.
• Evaluates instructional activities and prepares necessary materials.
• Ensures materials for students are readily available.
• Assists teachers in ensuring an encouraging, caring, safe, and healthy environment for all students.
• Works with individual students and/or specific groups of students in different classrooms and areas of the school.
• Participates in the district staff development program and continues professional growth.
• Maintains a positive disposition and exercises good judgment.
• May perform vision and hearing screenings and enter results into the Electronic Access Student Information System (EASi).

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• If employed in a Title I school, meet the employment requirements outlined by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
• Dependent upon the need of the school and the student population, hold and maintain a Crisis Prevention and Intervention (CPI) certification.
• Possess CPR and First Aid certification (preferred).

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office and Google Apps.
• Working knowledge of core subjects at the grade level to which employment assignment is made.
• Ability to recognize and support students of diverse backgrounds, learning abilities, and learning styles.
• Ability to protect the confidentiality of personally identifiable information in accordance with FERPA and other applicable laws.
• Ability to work in a team environment and effectively collaborate with others.
• Ability to motivate students and communicate clearly and concisely both in oral and written form.
• Ability to implement academic and behavioral interventions, as needed.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with school system staff, students, parents, businesses, community agencies, and the public.

Skills

• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Google Apps
• Successful instructional delivery methods
• Core subjects at the grade level to which employment assignment is made
• Recognizing and supporting students of diverse backgrounds, learning abilities, and learning styles
• Protecting confidentiality of personally identifiable information in accordance with FERPA and other applicable laws
• Collaborating with others
• Motivating students
• Communicating clearly and concisely both in oral and written form
• Implementing academic and behavioral interventions
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships

Benefits

N/A

Pay

Noncertified Grade 20

Schedule

Monday-Friday (occasional evenings and weekends)