LABORATORY CLASSROOM ASSISTANT (DANCE) - OGHS 30027947

About the role

This job provides assistance to credentialed teachers in the administration of lessons to students in various laboratory settings, such as Office Procedures, Computer Application classes, Printing & Graphics shop, Metal Shop, Auto Shop, Electronics, or Computer labs.

Responsibilities

• Discusses assigned teaching area with classroom teacher to coordinate instructional efforts.
• Affords assistance to students, individually or in groups, with lesson assignments; including technology-assisted instruction.
• Affords assistance to students in the use of specialized equipment unique to the specific laboratory setting to which assigned.
• Demonstrates hands-on use of equipment.
• Maintains equipment including basic cleaning and repair.
• Makes sure students are using equipment appropriately, properly, safely and within the parameters of district policy.
• May administer or assist in the administration of tests to determine placement or progress of students.
• May grade papers; record grades; keep records of student progress.
• May generate reports used for analysis of student achievement.
• Performs clerical tasks such as copying, collating, filing.
• Takes roll and maintains attendance records.
• Makes phone calls on behalf of teacher.
• Serves as a supervisor for other instructional lab assistants.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Sufficient training/education/experience beyond high school to be fully familiar with the specialty of the lab to which assigned.
• Work experience in the field or completion of the class to which assigned are examples of training and experience that would qualify an individual for these positions.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of subject matter where vocational and/or computer-assisted learning occurs.
• Microsoft computer applications.
• Basic arithmetic principles.
• Oral and written communication skills.
• Interpersonal skills using tact, patience, and courtesy.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Some computer skills are required of all instructional lab assistants. In addition, skills must match the lab to which assigned.

Physical Demands

• Frequently walks, uses hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talks or hears.
• Sits, stands, reaches with hands and arms, climbs or balances, stoops, kneels, crouches, or crawls.
• Frequently lifts and/or moves up to 25 pounds and occasionally lifts and/or moves up to 50 pounds.
• Frequent exposure to moving mechanical parts, wet and/or humid conditions, high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme cold, extreme heat, and risk of electrical shock.
• Frequent exposure to noise levels in the work environment that is usually moderate.