Instructional Assistant - Early Childhood

We need to produce HTML fragment with sections: headings

for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We need to parse the posting. First part: "Paraprofessional Information And Hiring Requirements Lexington County School District One paraprofessionals must meet one of the following prior to their date of hire: 60 college credit hoursAn associate degree or higherA passing score on the ParaPro or ParaPathways Assessment (available at ETS.org) Need the ParaPro or ParaPathways Assessment? Register HERE to take it at our Adult Education Center." That's about hiring requirements. Could be "Requirements" or "Qualifications". Then later there is a "Qualifications" section with similar content: high school graduate or equivalent, at least two years of study (60 semester hours) at an accredited institution of higher education; or an associate's degree (or higher); or a passing score on the ParaPro or ParaPathways Assessment. Also certificates, licenses, registrations: must have current government issued identification. Then "Terms Of Employment": 7 Hours/185 Days Support Staff Salary Schedule (Grade 7). Terms of employment detailed... Conditions of employment adjusted for part time employees or individuals who are hired for less than an entire school year. Then "General Summary": Under general supervision of a certified teacher, instruct students... Then "Essential Functions": list of duties. Then "Supervisory Responsibility": Supervision of students... Then "OTHER SKILLS And ABILITIES": list of abilities. Then "Physical Demands": description. Then "Work Environment": description. Then "Evaluation": Performance evaluated annually... Then "Disclaimer Statement": info about ADA. Then "Nondiscrimination Policy": statement. We need to remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The Nondiscrimination Policy is likely EEO boilerplate; we should remove it. Also Disclaimer Statement maybe considered legal boilerplate? It's about ADA compliance; might be considered boilerplate but it's part of job description. The instruction says remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. The Disclaimer Statement is about ADA compliance; could be considered legal boilerplate. Might be safe to remove? But it's not exactly EEO; it's a disclaimer about ADA. The instruction says remove legal boilerplate. I'd remove Disclaimer Statement and Nondiscrimination Policy. Also we need to not repeat the job title as a heading. The job title is "Instructional Assistant, 4K/5K Kindergarten". We should not put that as heading. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. So we need to decide which sections to include: About the role (maybe General Summary), Responsibilities (Essential Functions), Requirements (hiring requirements), Qualifications (maybe same as requirements but we can combine), Skills (OTHER SKILLS And ABILITIES), Benefits (maybe Terms of Employment includes salary schedule? Not exactly benefits; but Terms of Employment includes hours/days and salary schedule. Could be considered Benefits? The instruction: include Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections only if posting actually states them. The posting states "7 Hours/185 Days Support Staff Salary Schedule (Grade 7)" and mentions terms of employment. That's schedule and pay? It mentions salary schedule but not actual pay amount. It says "Support Staff Salary Schedule (Grade 7)" - that is a schedule but not explicit pay. It's not a specific pay amount; it's a schedule. The instruction says never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It does state schedule (7 Hours/185 Days) and mentions salary schedule. So we could include a Schedule section with that info. Pay section maybe not because no specific pay amount. Benefits maybe not. We also have Evaluation section: "Performance of this job is evaluated annually according to Board Policy." That's specific content; we could include an Evaluation section. We also have Physical Demands and Work Environment; those could be under a section like "Working Conditions" but not in allowed headings list. Allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we cannot create headings for Physical Demands or Work Environment. We could fold that content into About the role or Responsibilities? Probably better to include them under About the role (general description) or Responsibilities? The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine Physical Demands and Work Environment into About the role or Responsibilities? But they are not exactly responsibilities. Maybe we can include them under About the role as part of role description. We also have Supervisory Responsibility; could be part of Responsibilities. We also have OTHER SKILLS And ABILITIES; that maps to Skills. We also have Terms Of Employment (7 Hours/185 Days, salary schedule) -> could be Schedule. We also have Qualifications (the list). We also have Requirements (the hiring requirements). They are essentially same; we could combine into Qualifications section. We need to avoid duplication. Let's extract substantive content: - Hiring requirements: paraprofessionals must meet one of the following prior to date of hire: 60 college credit hours; associate degree or higher; passing score on ParaPro or ParaPathways Assessment. Also note: Need the assessment? Register HERE to take it at Adult Education Center. That's a link/instruction; maybe we should keep the info about registering? It's application instruction? Might be considered application instructions; we should remove application instructions. So we drop the "Register HERE" line. - Qualifications: high school graduate or equivalent; at least two years of study (60 semester hours) at an accredited institution; or associate's degree or higher; or passing score on ParaPro or ParaPathways Assessment. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: Must have current government issued identification. - Terms Of Employment: 7 Hours/185 Days Support Staff Salary Schedule (Grade 7). The terms of employment detailed in this job description are based on full time employment during the school year. Conditions of employment adjusted for part time employees or individuals who are hired for less than an entire school year. - General Summary: Under general supervision of a certified teacher, instruct students in academic and social skills so that the individual student needs, interests, and abilities are met. Assists in other school programs as assigned. - Essential Functions: list of duties (many bullet points). We need to preserve all substantive information; we should convert each sentence into

items under a

. The list includes many items separated by periods. We'll need to parse them. - Supervisory Responsibility: Supervision of students in both instructional and non-instructional settings. - OTHER SKILLS And ABILITIES: list of abilities (many). We'll convert to
• . - Physical Demands: description. - Work Environment: description. - Evaluation: Performance of this job is evaluated annually according to Board Policy. - Disclaimer Statement: remove. - Nondiscrimination Policy: remove. Now we need to map to allowed headings. Possible sections: - About the role: could include General Summary, Physical Demands, Work Environment, maybe Supervisory Responsibility? But Supervisory Responsibility is more about responsibilities. - Responsibilities: Essential Functions + Supervisory Responsibility. - Requirements: maybe the hiring requirements (60 college credit hours etc.)? Or we could combine with Qualifications. - Qualifications: the qualifications list (high school graduate etc.) plus certificates. - Skills: OTHER SKILLS And ABILITIES. - Schedule: Terms Of Employment (7 Hours/185 Days, salary schedule). Could also include evaluation? Not schedule. - Benefits: none. - Pay: none. We need to avoid thin sections. Let's decide: Section About the role: include General Summary, Physical Demands, Work Environment. That's substantive. Section Responsibilities: include Essential Functions and Supervisory Responsibility. Section Qualifications: include the qualifications list (high school graduate etc.) and certificates. Section Skills: include OTHER SKILLS And ABILITIES. Section Schedule: include Terms Of Employment (7 Hours/185 Days, salary schedule) and maybe evaluation? Evaluation is not schedule but could be its own section? Not allowed heading. Could fold into About the role? Evaluation is a separate aspect; maybe we can include Evaluation as its own section if we treat it as "Evaluation" but not allowed heading. So we must either drop it or fold into another section. The instruction says include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text. It does not say we cannot create other headings beyond the list; but the list is given as examples of section headings we can use. It says: use

  for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). That suggests we should limit to those headings. So we cannot create Evaluation heading. So we need to fold Evaluation content into one of those sections, perhaps About the role or Responsibilities. Evaluation is about performance evaluation; could fit under About the role (general description) or Responsibilities. I'd put it under About the role. Now we need to ensure we don't repeat content. Let's draft:

  About the role

  Under general supervision of a certified teacher, instruct students in academic and social skills so that the individual student needs, interests, and abilities are met. Assists in other school programs as assigned.

  Physical demands: occasional lifting/moving of items up to twenty‑five pounds; may push/pull furniture or boxes; regularly required to sit, stand, walk, talk, listen, reach; requires close and distance vision; frequent computer monitor use; may work irregular or extended hours.

  Work environment: office setting with no significant exposure to adverse environmental conditions; occasional travel (no overnight); noise level varies from quiet to loud depending on activity.

  Performance is evaluated annually according to Board policy.

  Responsibilities

  • Supports and upholds the mission, vision and strategic goals of Lexington County School District One towards increased outcomes for students.
  • Interacts, communicates and collaborates with all stakeholders effectively.
  • Establishes a safe, supportive, positive and productive working and learning environment.
  • Operates general office and technology equipment needed for daily activities.
  • Maintains confidentiality regarding all employee and student information.
  • Participates in all professional meetings and training sessions as required.
  • Requests and maintains materials needed for daily responsibilities and essential functions; provides for safe storage and proper use of all tools, equipment and materials.
  • Assists teacher with all classroom activities; assists with lunch and safety drills.
  • Works one on one and in small groups with students as instructed by the certified teacher.
  • Assists with benchmark assessments; leads intervention groups or assists with classroom intervention groups in the kindergarten setting.
  • Assists teacher in supervising students inside and outside of the school building.
  • Provides for basic first aid needs of students.
  • Provides toileting assistance for students as needed.
  • Assists with clerical duties such as recording student attendance, collecting lunch money, collecting and recording various fees, and organizing and filing instructional materials.
  • Ensures instructional areas are maintained in a neat and orderly fashion.
  • Assumes the role of teacher in all aspects when necessary.
  • Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
  • Supervision of students in both instructional and non‑instructional settings.

  Qualifications

  • High school graduate or equivalent.
  • At least two years of study (60 semester hours)