SpEd Assistant Teacher Non-Certified - Sumrall High School

About the Role

To provide assistance in the instruction of basic skills and ensure each student the opportunity to take advantage of all available resources in the classroom.

Responsibilities

• Direct any activity that will free the supervising teacher for instruction.
• Meet and instruct assigned classes at the assigned school and at times designated by teacher and principal.
• Participate in daily and long-range lesson and classroom activity planning.
• Guide small groups of students in independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work to reinforce material initially introduced by the supervising teacher.
• Guide children in working and playing harmoniously with other children.
• Keep desks, books, papers, materials, and supplies in order and use educational media.
• Alert the teacher to special needs of individual children.
• Provide assistance to and escort children as necessary.
• Help maintain individual records for each child.
• Foster good eating habits and table manners in children.
• Assist teacher in maintaining neat work and study areas.
• Check notebooks, correct papers, and help supervise makeup work and testing as assigned by the supervising teacher (the assistant teacher will not assign grades or confer with parents concerning grades).
• Assist with the supervision of children during regular play periods.
• Collect and display suitable material for educational displays.
• Participate in staff development to be equipped with the skills required to assist teachers in carrying out district initiatives.
• Maintain and accept responsibility for any district-owned fixed asset items assigned to employee and ensure appropriate use by following district policies for acceptable use.
• Undergo periodic evaluations according to state and board policy procedures.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Perform other duties as may be requested by the Board of Education, superintendent, administrator, director, or established by district policy.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree or higher from an accredited college.
• Minimum of 48 hours of college credit from an accredited college or pass a Work Keys test as determined by the Mississippi Department of Education.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Regularly required to talk or hear.
• Frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands for fine manipulation, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms using equipment such as a keyboard and video display panel.
• Occasionally required to stoop, kneel, reach, crouch, or crawl.
• Must regularly lift and move up to 35 pounds and occasionally up to 75 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work environment is not a standard office setting but encompasses the entire active school campus, both inside and outside the facilities.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate and occasionally high.

Pay

Salary as established by the Lamar County School District.

Schedule

Days and work year as established by the Lamar County School District.