Educational Aide; Prekindergarten

Duties

• Participates in home visits, parent teacher conferences and other meetings.
• Ensures continuity of program in teacher’s absence.
• Ensures continuity of program in teacher’s absence.
• Maintains a clean and organized learning environment.
• Preparing instructional materials related to classroom lessons.
• Assists with teaching personal care routines: feeding, toileting and personal hygiene.
• Operates Instructional equipment and technology devices.
• Accompanying/supervising students on field trips.
• Produce material to display educational objectives to class.
• Apply assistive technology for recording student data.

• Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Requirement.
• Proof of U.S. Citizenship required.
• Direct deposit of pay is required.
• Appointment subject to a suitability/fitness determination, as determined by a background investigation.
• This position requires a Tier 1 (T1) investigation with Childcare Checks since its duties require interaction with children and youth under the age of eighteen (18) years of age.
• Two year trial period may be required.

U.S. Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, Ameri Corps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience;

if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Experience required: To qualify based on experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. General experience is defined as: progressively responsible clerical, office or other work that indicates ability to acquire the particular knowledge and skills needed to perform the duties of an Educational Aide.

Education Substitution: Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience above in order to qualify. For this job, you may qualify if your education meets the definitions below:

• Qualifying based on education alone:
  Education may be substituted for general experience with 2 years (60 semester hours) of education above high school.
• Qualifying based on a combination of education and general experience: A combination of education and general experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%. To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of qualifying experience by 12. Then divide your semester hours of undergraduate education by 60.
  
  Add the 2 percentages.
  
  Note:
  
  For the purpose of qualifications, 1 full year of undergraduate education is equivalent to 30 semester hours.

You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

• Communications and Media
• Standards
• Teaching Others

Foreign Degrees And Course Work From Non-accredited Institutions. Foreign Degrees And Course Work From Non-accredited Institutions. Credits Or Degrees Earned From a Foreign College Or University Must Be Evaluated Prior To Acceptance. Three Evaluation Procedures Are Acceptable

• The work must be evaluated and interpreted by a current member of National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES). This website provides a list of current organizations who can perform your evaluation. You must select and work directly with one of these organizations.
• The foreign institution that awarded the degree is on a list endorsed by a regionally accredited university or on a list endorsed by a state department of education for the purpose of teacher certification in that state (this procedure will require an English translation of the transcript and a copy of the document awarding the degree, together with an authenticated list produced…