Kindergarten Aide - Austinville

Job Title

Performs any combination of the following instructional tasks in the classroom to assist teaching staff of elementary or secondary school by performing the following duties:

• Discusses assigned teaching area with classroom teacher to coordinate instructional efforts.
• Plans, prepares, and develops various teaching aids such as bibliographies, charts and graphs.
• Assists in presenting subject matter to students, utilizing variety of methods and techniques such as lecture, discussion, and supervised role playing.
• Administers, and grades examinations.
• Assists students, individually or in groups, with lesson assignments to present or reinforce learning concepts.

• Other duties as assigned.

• Minimum of two years post-secondary earned credit (48 hours) or associates degree or passing scores on Work Keys Level 3 assessment.

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations.

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
• The employee frequently is required to stand and walk.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit, bend, stoops, squat, crouch, kneel, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee must routinely lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
• The employee must occasionally lift, push, pull and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions for short periods of time.

• Salary schedules are found on the main Decatur City Schools website.
• Verification of previous public school teaching experience is necessary to compute your annual salary.

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee(s) within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of an employee(s) for this job. The Decatur City School System does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, disability, sex, religion, national origin, or age in its programs, activities, or employment and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.

The Title IX Coordinator for Decatur City Schools is responsible for handling inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies. The Title IX Coordinator can be reached by calling the Decatur City Board of Education at .