Teacher Assistant - Preschool
Williamsburg-James City County Schools · Williamsburg, VA · 1 mo ago
EducationFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: h3 for headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include only sections that have real content. The posting includes: Job Summary (we can treat as About the role). Duties And Responsibilities (Responsibilities). Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and/or Abilities Required) (Qualifications). Also there is "Special Instructional Assistant II: Must have completed at least 60 semester hours..." which is part of qualifications. Also "Supervision Exercised" and "Supervision Received" maybe part of responsibilities? Could be separate but not required headings. We can include them under Responsibilities or maybe as separate sections like "Supervision". But we should only create sections when there is real specific content. We have content for About the role (Job Summary). Responsibilities (Duties And Responsibilities). Qualifications (Minimum Qualifications). Also maybe Skills (some skills listed). Could combine Skills into Qualifications. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we can have About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications. Possibly also Working Conditions? Not listed as a heading option but we could include if content exists. The allowed headings list includes About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can use Requirements as synonyms for Qualifications? But we have both Minimum Qualifications and maybe Requirements. We'll use Qualifications for the qualifications. We could also include Skills if we want to separate but better to keep few sections.
Thus output:
. Let's list them:
- Implements instruction activities as prescribed by the teacher for individual children's programs.
- Attends to daily record keeping tasks such as attendance and collecting lunch money.
- Prepares classroom materials in accordance with needs of children; assumes partial responsibility for arranging and decorating the classroom environments to fit the needs and interests of young handicapped children.
- Observes and records data in child's progress and behavior including solid interactions and emotional behavior.
- Insures the safe transfer of students on and off the school buses; removes and replaces braces and splints; lifts children from and into strollers and other specialized adaptive equipment.
- Helps facilitate personal care and hygiene of students including diapering, nose wiping and body cleaning.
- Follows safe procedures for appropriate handling of body fluids and wastes.
- Takes appropriate action in instances of special medical needs including seizures, respiratory arrest, broken bones, postural drainage, and airway obstruction.
- Maintains the safety of the children in the absence of the teacher by continually observing safety precautions.
- Assists with daily activities including snack and stories as per teacher's lesson plans.
- Escort children as needed to classroom activities.
- Responsible for safe exiting of children from building in case of an emergency.
- Participates in school based and system wide in-services and workshops designed to improve skills and expand theoretical knowledge.
- Models the WJCC Strategic Plan Values: Individualism, Integrity, Innovation, Accountability and Collaboration.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Also there is "Supervision Exercised Responsible for the class of students in the teacher's absence." and "Supervision Received Receives direction from the teacher and works under general supervision of Principal and Assistant Principal." These could be included as duties as well. We'll add them.
Also "Working Conditions And Physical Requirements" includes many details. Should we include them? The allowed headings do not include Working Conditions, but we could incorporate into Qualifications or maybe a separate section not allowed. Since we must only use allowed headings, we could embed that info into Qualifications or Responsibilities? It's about physical requirements, maybe better as part of Qualifications (abilities). We'll include as list items under Qualifications.
Let's extract Working Conditions And Physical Requirements content:
- Must have the ability to sit for extended periods of time; exhibit manual dexterity to dial a telephone, to enter data into a computer terminal; to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; hear and understand speech at normal levels and on the telephone; speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in person and on the telephone; ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions.
- Duties are normally performed in a school/classroom environment.
- Duties may be occasionally performed on field trips away from school.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.
- Employees are regularly required to stand and reach with hands and arms; walk; sit; stoop or kneel; crouch or crawl.
- Duties may involve risk resulting from attending to students' physical or sanitation/hygiene needs.
- Must be physically capable of frequently lifting or moving up to 50 pounds.
- Must be able to move between indoor and outdoor environments to supervise students and direct students to safety in emergency situations.
Also earlier: "Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions."
Now Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and/or Abilities Required) list:
- High school diploma or GED certificate required.
- Experience in nursing, childcare, or special education preferred.
- Demonstrate the ability to supervise and teach students.
- Maintain confidentiality with records to student records and information.
- Ability to communicate clearly and properly orally and in writing to students, staff, and parents under the direction of and in collaboration with teacher.
- Basic computing and spelling skills required.
- Patience, flexibility, dependability, interest, punctuality, and ability to follow directions.
- Special Instructional Assistant II: Must have completed at least 60 semester hours of college credit or earned an associate's or higher degree or have successfully passed the ParaPro Assessment (Virginia qualifying score of 455).
- Experience in nursing, childcare, or special education preferred.
Note duplicate "Experience in nursing, childcare, or special education preferred." appears twice; we can keep once.
Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like FLSA Status, Grade, Revision Date, Location etc. Those are minor metadata; we can fold into a short p or drop. The instruction: "Do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
About the role
Job Summary ...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Qualifications
- ... ...
or drop it." So we could include a short p at top with location etc? But they said remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The FLSA status etc is not boilerplate but minor metadata. We could include a short p: "
Location: Bright Beginnings. FLSA Status: Non-exempt. Grade: U02, U03 (Unified). Revision Date: December 1, 2015.
" That seems okay. But the instruction also says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Adding a metadata p is fine. Now we need to output only HTML fragment, no html/body tags. Let's craft:Location: Bright Beginnings. FLSA Status: Non-exempt. Grade: U02, U03 (Unified). Revision Date: December 1, 2015.
About the role
This position provides assistance to Preschool Teachers in the daily management and instruction of students. The work involves observing and reporting on the behavior and learning of students, in a pre-kindergarten classroom, closely monitoring the needs of children. Due to Bright Beginnings being on two different tiers in which we have students (8:30 - 12:30 or 9:45 -1:45), the Program-based substitute will report to one of the Bright Beginnings locations each day when there is a substitute need.
Responsibilities
- Implements instruction activities as prescribed by the teacher for individual children's programs.
- Attends to daily record keeping tasks such as attendance and collecting lunch money.
- Prepares classroom materials in accordance with needs of children; assumes partial responsibility for arranging and decorating the classroom environments to fit the needs and interests of young handicapped children.
- Observes and records data in child's progress and behavior including solid interactions and emotional behavior.
- Insures the safe transfer of students on and off the school buses; removes and replaces braces and splints; lifts children from and into strollers and other specialized adaptive equipment.
- Helps facilitate personal care and hygiene of students including diapering, nose wiping and body cleaning.
- Follows safe procedures for appropriate handling of body fluids and wastes.
- Takes appropriate action in instances of special medical needs including seizures, respiratory arrest, broken bones, postural drainage, and airway obstruction.
- Maintains the safety of the children in the absence of the teacher by continually observing safety precautions.
- Assists with daily activities including snack and stories as per teacher's lesson plans.
- Escort children as needed to classroom activities.
- Responsible for safe exiting of children from building in case of an emergency.
- Participates in school based and system wide in-services and workshops designed to improve skills and expand theoretical knowledge.
- Models the WJCC Strategic Plan Values: Individualism, Integrity, Innovation, Accountability and Collaboration.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Supervision exercised: Responsible for the class of students in the teacher's absence.
- Supervision received: Receives direction from the teacher and works under general supervision of Principal and Assistant Principal.
Qualifications
- High school diploma or GED certificate required.
- Experience in nursing, childcare, or special education preferred.
- Demonstrate the ability to supervise and teach students.
- Maintain confidentiality with records to student records and information.
- Ability to communicate clearly and properly orally and in writing to students, staff, and parents under the direction of and in collaboration with teacher.
- Basic computing and spelling skills required.
- Patience, flexibility, dependability, interest, punctuality, and ability to follow directions.
- Special Instructional Assistant II: Must have completed at least 60 semester hours of college credit or earned an associate's or higher degree or have successfully passed the ParaPro Assessment (Virginia qualifying score of 455).
- Must have the ability to sit for extended periods of time; exhibit manual dexterity to dial a telephone, to enter data into a computer terminal; to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; hear and understand speech at normal levels and on the telephone; speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in person and on the telephone; ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions.
- Duties are normally performed in a school/classroom environment.
- Duties may be occasionally performed on field trips away from school.
- The noise