Instructional Assistant - General Education - VA Preschool Initiative

Essential Job Functions

• Assists the preschool teacher to ensure the safe arrival and departure of children each day.
• Affords assistance to the teacher in supervising children during center instruction; helps develop instructional materials.
• Carries out program activities with small groups of children including “plan, do and review”, gross motor skills, play activities, teaching personal hygiene and social skills.
• Prepares breakfast and lunch for children during center time; supervises children during these meals with VPI children.
• Maintains monitoring of behavior and enforces disciplinary rules.
• Affords assistance to the VPI teacher with home visits, parent workshops and activities as deemed appropriate.
• Attends training and staff development as deemed appropriate.
• Consistently demonstrates a positive and professional attitude, a willing spirit, as well as a sense of team commitment and a pleasant demeanor.

Qualifications

• Some knowledge of early childhood development principals and best practices in early childhood education behavior; of behavior management techniques and clerical procedures; of general academic subjects sufficient to teach others.
• Some knowledge of the VPI requirements as well as local requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with preschool children, parents, students and staff to implement programs.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with little supervision, including high pressure and difficult situations.
• Demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with the VPI teacher in developing and implementing developmentally appropriate activities for preschool children.

Additional Job Requirements

• High School diploma, training, or experience sufficient to demonstrate the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Instructional Assistants working in Title I Schools must also meet the following minimum state requirements: Has passed the Paraprofessional Assessment with a minimum score of 455 or Has a minimum of 48 semester hours/credits from a regionally accredited college or university.
• College transcripts or parapro scores must be submitted to be considered for this position.

Compensation

$24,447.24 - $44,579.93

Hours Per Day

7.5

Days Per Year

183

Benefits

Chesterfield County Public Schools offers a wide variety of benefits to employees. Benefit offerings may differ based upon full-time and part-time employee status. Chesterfield County Public Schools assures Equal Employment Opportunities for employees as required by Federal and State Orders and Laws. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential tasks.