Cleveland Middle School Instructional Assistant Job Cleveland area,Tennessee USA,Education / Teaching

TITLE INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT QUALIFICATIONS

Meets the Federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) qualifications including an associate’s degree or 48 hours of college credit or have passed the Para Professional Praxis test

May be employed on a part time or full time basis

Meets the health and physical qualifications

REPORTS TO

Principal

JOB GOAL

To provide assistance to teachers, administrative assistants, and clerical personnel when needed.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students

Facilitates student interventions with the guidance and support of a classroom teacher

Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes

Distributes and collects technology, workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction

Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips

Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and makeup work as assigned by the teacher

Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills

Assumes responsibility for knowing and following the safety rules and proper procedures associated with the responsibilities of the job

Checks and records attendance

Arranges bulletin boards

Types and duplicates tests, worksheets, and supplementary materials

Assists in supervising the children in lunchroom, playground, and bus loading

Assists the teacher in assimilating materials for class displays

Performs other duties as assigned

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This job may require lifting of objects that exceed 50 lbs., or the average weight of a child, if assigned to elementary grades, with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 25 lbs., or more. Other physical demands that may be required are as follows:

Pushing and/or pulling

Climbing

Stooping, kneeling and/or crawling

Reaching

Talking

Hearing

Seeing

VOCATIONAL PREPARATION

The required vocation preparation may come from any of the following:

Vocational education

Apprentice training

On-the-job training

Essential experience in other jobs

TEMPERAMENT (Personal Traits)

Adaptability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure

Adaptability to dealing with students

Adaptability to make generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgement criteria

CAPACITY AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTS

Specific capacities and abilities may be required of an individual in order to learn or perform adequately a task or job duty.

Intelligence:
Ability to “catch on” or understand instructions and underlying principles and ability to reason and make judgments

Verbal:
Ability to understand meanings of works and the ideas associated with them

Color Discrimination:
Ability to perceive or recognise similarities of differences in colours or shades or other values of the same colour

Form Perception:
Ability to make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shading of figures

Manual Dexterity:
Ability to move the hands easily and skillfully

WORK CONDITIONS

Normal working environment

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be a complete list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of the principal so assigned.

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