SY Pre-K Educational Assistant

Starting Date: Immediately

Provides instructional and/or general clerical assistance to teachers with special education students in the classroom, a computer lab, and on‑campus grounds.

• Accompanies students and adapts instructional materials to special student needs.
• May be assigned a single special needs student to attend to and assist.
• May be required to perform feeding, distributing, toilet assistance, diapering, wheelchair transfers, and pushing wheelchairs to classrooms according to their medical management plan.
• Assists the special education teacher in the preparation of materials and activities for classroom instruction.
• Assists small groups and individual students with classroom activities.
• Assists the teacher in maintaining a clean, attractive, and safe learning environment.
• Accompanies students to a mainstream setting, translating between English and Spanish.
• Assists substitute teachers as needed.
• Participates in staff meetings and in‑service training activities.
• Assists teachers with general clerical work such as filing, photocopying, word processing, and duplication of materials for classroom use.
• Assists students in the classroom with reading, math, and other subjects.
• Supervises children at recess, lunch, and getting on and off the bus to ensure child safety and that each child is accounted for.
• Assists students with classroom and homework assignments.
• Relieves teachers for attending professional development activities.
• Reports information about a child's development and behavior to teachers.
• Actively fosters positive relationships with all staff and the community.
• Maintains the safety and security of students.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

• Educational and personal care needs of students with multiple needs.
• Techniques, policies, and practices of child instruction.
• Child discipline.
• Emergency and safety procedures.
• Policies and objectives of assigned programs.
• Modern office practices and procedures.
• School site and assigned policies, and procedures.
• Basic principles and techniques of education.
• Operation of modern office equipment including PC and related software.

• Adhere to District & Federal FERPA policies and strict confidentiality.
• Perform services required for assisting students with special needs.
• Assist with student health care needs and personal hygiene.
• Prepare a variety of records and reports.
• Assist teachers in classroom education activities.
• Supervise students at recess and entering and exiting buses.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with others.
• Operate a variety of modern office equipment.
• Communicate effectively orally and in writing.
• Understand and follow oral and written directions.
• Perform routine clerical duties.

• High school diploma or GED certificate.
• Educational coursework and prior classroom experience in special needs student settings preferred.
• Must enroll in higher education courses to obtain an associate's degree in early childhood education within two years of hire.

• 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 to students, parents, and other employees of the organization.

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

• Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situation.

Educational Assistant Pre‑K‑12 Level 3 License required.

Also encouraged to obtain a Pre‑K‑12 Substitute License. Current Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) Certification required for position.

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