Life Skills Aide

Instructional Aide

TITLE:
Instructional Aide

DUTY DAYS: 186 days

JOB GOAL: To be the teacher's assistant. To help the teacher achieve teaching objectives by working with individual students or small groups, making every effort to help them accomplish the skill levels of the class as a whole. To provide a well‑organized, smoothly functional class environment in which students can take full advantage of the instructional program and available resource materials.

College/High School diploma/valid Certification

• Assists the teacher according to the teacher's needs
• Makes needed copies of classroom materials
• Monitors students during classroom and play activities
• Reads aloud or listens to children read
• Prepares instructional materials and sets up equipment
• Provides special help such as drilling with flashcards, spelling, and play activities
• Assists students at meal periods
• Provides for students' physical needs as required and/or assigned
• Maintains a clean and orderly classroom
• Assists students from buses to restroom facilities and other locations
• Escorts students on educational trips outside the classroom with the teacher and other appropriate adult support
• Assists students in performing activities that have been initiated by the teacher
• Assists with supplementary work for advanced pupils
• Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and makeup work assigned by the teacher
• Assists in setting up classrooms
• Assists children in learning their names, addresses, telephone numbers, birthdays, and parents' names
• Hears requests for help, observes learning difficulties from pupils, and reports such matters to teachers
• Works with individual students or small groups on language development as outlined by the teacher
• Serves as a bus monitor in the transport of students as requested and/or needed
• In upper grades the aide works with assigned students as scheduled by the Campus Principal
• In upper grades the aide is also assigned to before‑and‑after school supervision and lunch duties
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Campus Principal or the supervising teacher

Tools/Equipment Used: Standard office equipment including personal computer and peripherals.

Posture: Prolonged sitting; occasional bending, stooping, pushing, pulling, and twisting.

Motion: Repetitive hand motions, frequent keyboarding and use of mouse; occasional reaching.

Lifting: Occasional light lifting and carrying (less than 15 pounds).

Environment: Frequent district wide travel; occasional statewide travel.

Mental Demands: Work with frequent interruptions; maintain emotional control under stress.