Educational Assistant

Position Overview

Educational Assistant (Position )

Location:

Sheldon Woods Elementary School

Reports To:

Principal

Beginning:
August 2026

Hours:

29.5 hours per week (Monday – Friday).

School year / Part‑time.

• Experience working with children on academics.
• Experience working with children is preferred.

• Supervise students during morning drop off, lunch, recess, and dismissal.
• Provide breaks and supports for students.
• Assist with math and reading intervention.
• Supporting learning in k‑5 classroom.
• Copy, laminate and organize instructional material.

• Able to be flexible and adjust quickly to the needs of the day.
• Willing to work in cold weather.

• Reaching:
  Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Lifting:
  Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
• Grasping:
  Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Talking:
  Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken work; those activities where detailed or import spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing:
  Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motions:
  Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• The worker is subject to environmental conditions.
• The worker should provide consistent and reliable in person attendance.