Assistant, Developmental Preschool

Position Details

• Position Type: Preschool/ Assistant – Special Education
• Date Posted: 12/17/2025
• Location: White Oak Early Learning Center
• Date Available: 01/06/2026
• Closing Date: Until Filled

• Educational: High school diploma or GED required. Advanced work in special education preferred.
• Skills and Knowledge: Communicates effectively with students, staff, and parents. Has basic knowledge of how to instruct students.
• Experience: None required. Experience in early childhood programs (e.g., day care, community programs) or as an elementary classroom assistant preferred.
• Certification: None required.
• Other: To maintain a positive relationship with pupils, staff, parents, and the community.

• Maintains schedule as developed by supervising teacher.
• Works with individual or small groups of students to reinforce learning of materials or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Guides independent study, enrichment work, and intervention work as set up and assigned by the teacher.
• Alerts the classroom teacher to any problem or specific information about an individual student.
• Accompanies students to general education and special area classes and support them in those areas.
• Utilizes de-escalation techniques when behaviors and emotions are escalated, at the direction of the teacher.
• Participates in in-service training programs.
• Assists with lunch, snack, and clean up routines as needed.
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
• Assists with supervision of students during emergency drills.
• Maintains records and collects data as directed by the teacher.
• Will provide personal care support for and with students as needed.
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
• Performs other such tasks and assumes such other responsibilities as the principal may assign.

Salary Lane: ASST + SPED Add-on – hourly pay starting at $19.25.
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Assigned Workdays Per Year: 181 days
Job Status: Full-Time – 35 Hours per Week
Schedule: Monday – Friday, 8:00am – 3:00pm
Benefits: Full-time positions are eligible for medical, dental insurance as well as supplemental benefits such as vision, life insurance, disability, etc. Eligible for PERF Retirement.
Paid Time Off Benefits: Eligible
Holiday Pay: Not Eligible

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand and use hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to walk, reach with hands and arms, climb, balance and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance, vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus.

Avon Community School Corporation does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, or veteran status in admission to its programs, services, or activities, in access to them, in treatment of individuals, or in any aspect of its operations. The Avon Community School Corporation does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices.

This notice is provided as required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Questions, complaints, or requests for additional information regarding these laws may be forwarded to the designated compliance coordinator.