Preschool Instructional Assistant

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for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to map content. Job posting includes: FLSA classification, work days, standard hours per day, work year, salary schedule & benefits, starting hourly rate, reports to, supervises, general summary of duties, essential functions, non-essential functions, entry-level requirements (education/training, experience, certifications/licenses, other), performance aptitudes (data utilization, human interaction, equipment, verbal aptitude, mathematical aptitude, functional reasoning, situational reasoning), physical requirements, sensory requirements, environmental factors. We need to decide which sections to include: About the role (maybe summary), Responsibilities (essential functions), Requirements (entry-level requirements), Qualifications (maybe certifications/licenses?), Skills (performance aptitudes?), Benefits (salary schedule & benefits), Pay (starting hourly rate), Schedule (work days, standard hours per day, work year). Also maybe include "Reports to" etc. We must not repeat job title as heading. No boilerplate. We need to preserve all substantive information. Must not invent or summarize away detail. Must not include placeholder text like "commensurate with experience". We have actual numbers. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. We need to decide which sections to include: Let's map: - About the role: Could include FLSA classification, work days, standard hours per day, work year, reports to, supervises. That's substantive. - Responsibilities: Essential functions list. - Requirements: Entry-level requirements (education/training, experience, certifications/licenses, other). Could also include performance aptitudes? But those are more skills/aptitudes. - Qualifications: Could be certifications/licenses? But we already have that in requirements. Maybe we can combine. Better: Use sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to ensure we don't create empty sections. Let's extract content: About the role: - FLSA CLASSIFICATION: Non-exempt, hourly employee. - WORK DAYS: 181 days (those days when students are scheduled to attend school). - STANDARD HOURS PER DAY: 7 hours per day (not including a 30-minute unpaid duty-free meal break). - WORK YEAR: The Early Childhood Development Assistant is scheduled to work all days when students are scheduled to attend school, depending on which calendar the school follows. - REPORTS TO: The Early Childhood Development Assistant is supervised by one or more teachers. Early Childhood Development Assistant s and teachers report to the building Principal. - SUPERVISES: The Early Childhood Development Assistant does not directly supervise. We can combine into paragraphs. Responsibilities: Essential Functions list (multiple bullet points). We'll put each as

. Requirements: Entry-level Requirements: EDUCATION/TRAINING, EXPERIENCE, CERTIFICATIONS &/OR LICENSES, OTHER. Skills: Performance Aptitudes (Data Utilization, Human Interaction, Equipment..., Verbal Aptitude, Mathematical Aptitude, Functional Reasoning, Situational Reasoning). Also maybe PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS, SENSORY REQUIREMENTS, ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS could be under Skills or separate? But we have only those headings allowed. Could put physical/sensory/environmental under Skills as well, but maybe better to include them under Requirements? However they are not exactly requirements but job demands. Could put them under Skills? The instruction says use headings only if posting has real specific content. We have content for physical requirements etc. Could create a section "Skills" and include those as list items. Benefits: SALARY SCHEDULE & BENEFITS: paid on “Instructional Assistants” salary schedule, eligible for benefits on “Support Staff” benefits schedule. That's benefits. Pay: Starting hourly rate is $16.05. Schedule: Already covered in About the role (work days, hours). But we also have Schedule heading; we could move schedule details there and keep About the role more general. However we need to avoid duplication. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine schedule info into About the role and not create a separate Schedule section if it's redundant. But we have a Schedule heading allowed; we could create it if we have specific schedule content not already covered. Since we already have work days, hours, work year in About the role, we could still create Schedule section with same info but that would duplicate. Better to not create Schedule section if we already covered schedule in About the role. The rule: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text. It doesn't forbid overlapping content, but we should avoid thin sections. So we can omit Schedule section and put schedule details in About the role. Similarly Benefits section we have content. Pay section we have starting hourly rate. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Benefits, Pay. Check if we need Qualifications? Could combine certifications into Requirements. We'll not create Qualifications if we already have Requirements covering education, experience, certifications, other. That's fine. Now we need to format. We'll produce:

About the role

FLSA classification: Non-exempt, hourly employee.

Work days: 181 days (those days when students are scheduled to attend school).

Standard hours per day: 7 hours per day (not including a 30‑minute unpaid duty‑free meal break).

Work year: Scheduled to work all days when students are scheduled to attend school, depending on the school calendar.

Reports to: Supervised by one or more teachers; both the assistant and teachers report to the building principal.

Supervises: Does not directly supervise.

Then Responsibilities:

Responsibilities

• Monitors activities and behavior of children during the absence of the classroom teacher(s) to ensure their physical and environmental safe keeping, as well as adherence to appropriate conduct and disciplinary controls.
• Assists the teacher(s) in the supervision of learning activities, circulating within the classroom and providing assistance and learning support to children.
• Provides instruction to children as prescribed by the supervising teacher(s) and reinforces skills introduced by the teacher(s); may utilize games, stories, or other constructive activities to enhance the students’ learning skills.
• Assists the teacher(s) in checking and objectively evaluating students’ progress; instructs children individually and in small groups reinforcing skills based upon instructional guidelines.
• Assists children with gross motor activities such as grasping, holding objects, posture, crawling, walking, and running; assists children with fine motor activities through activities such as playing with toys, cutting materials, or coloring.
• May be asked to assist in the preparation of lesson plans; may be asked to provide input and assistance in the development of classroom activities and learning tools.
• Assists the teacher(s) by noticing students’ potential learning, language and/or communication deficiencies; monitors children’s progressive learning skills; makes the teacher aware of students’ possible learning deficiencies; documents records of learning activities and diagnosis.
• Prepares or assists in the preparation of instructional materials; performs support tasks such as photocopying materials, laminating items, typing correspondence, and filing paperwork and documentation.
• Coordinates with media center staff for classroom learning resources; sets up equipment in the classroom for teacher's instructional studies.
• Assists in preparing classroom bulletin boards, classroom decorations, displays of children’s activities, and other classroom objectives.
• May be asked to prepare draft reports and to tentatively complete forms, schedules, and other data as directed.
• Learns assigned bus route(s) to assist with proper boarding of students.
• Maintains accurate and complete records of a variety of student information which may require the use of a computer to enter scores and other children’s data.
• May be assigned monitoring duties, i.e., hallways, lunchroom, restrooms, and bus duty; ensures appropriate student conduct during these periods; escorts students to designated activity areas (i.e., music room, computer room, art classes, assemblies, etc.).
• May be assigned to various labs providing assistance to teachers and instruction/information to students.
• Responsible for keeping up to date on current technology, as job appropriate, being used by Warren. With the support of the district, attends training to ensure skill level in various technologies is at the level required to perform in current position.
• Responsible for timely and accurate information they maintain as part of their job responsibilities.

Requirements:

Requirements

• Education/Training: High school diploma or GED required; an Associate’s degree or higher; or at least sixty (60) semester hours from an accredited institution of higher education is preferred (official transcripts required to validate education).
• Experience: Previous vocational training or work experience with preschool or kindergarten age children is preferred.
• Certifications &/or Licenses: Able to meet the requirements of a paraprofessional as outlined in ESSA. Must pass the required Expanded Criminal History Check and Expanded Child Protection Index Check. Must have at least an associate’s degree or two years of college or passed the ParaPro Assessment. Highlander Park offers the ParaPro Assessment at no cost for all Warren Township prospective employees. Testing is offered Monday through Thursday at 9:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. To register for your free assessment, email adulteducation@warren.k12.in.us or call 317-532-3000.
• Other: Ability to perform the essential functions, meet the performance aptitudes, and fulfill the physical/sensory/environmental requirements of the job (with or without reasonable accommodations) is required.

Skills:

Skills

• Data Utilization: Requires the ability to arrange, compare, count, differentiate, measure and/or sort data and/or information; includes judging whether readily observable functional, structural or compositional characteristics are similar to or divergent from prescribed standards, procedures or routines.
• Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide guidance, assistance, and/or interpretation to others on how to apply procedures and standards to specific situations.
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of standard office equipment.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference data and information.
• Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
• Functional Reasoning: Requires ability to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions; involves routine work according to clearly prescribed standard practices, with some latitude for independent judgment.
• Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving a variety of generally pre-defined duties which are often characterized by frequent change.
• Physical Requirements: Tasks involve the ability to exert very moderate physical effort in light work, typically involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling, and which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (12‑20 pounds).
• Sensory Requirements: Most tasks require visual perception and discrimination; some tasks require oral communications ability; some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate sounds.
• Environmental Factors: Tasks are regularly performed without exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness,