Teacher Aide

Teacher Aide

The Darke County ESC is seeking to fill two teacher's aide positions in a classroom for students with multiple disabilities at Tri-Village Elementary. Teacher's Aides may assist the Intervention Specialist in completing habilitation such as feeding, toileting, lifting, and/or moving; physical intervention on a consistent basis and constant monitoring to ensure safety; and/or student assistance when curriculum needs to be modified to the functional level.

• Must have a high school diploma and ability to meet certification requirements for an Educational Aide certificate.
• Shall possess a valid driver's license.
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.
• Shall pass the BCI/FBI background checks.

• Participate in team approach to student programming.
• Assist in planning and help carry out education programs.
• Assist in individual and small group activities.
• Assist with behavior problems and maintaining discipline in the classroom.
• Assist in supervising outside or recreational activities of students.
• Assist in maintaining student attendance records.
• Assist in maintaining evaluation and testing records.
• Assist with toilet procedures and diapering of students.
• Assist students during lunch time.
• Assist with student bus boarding and unboarding.
• Construct or create educational aids for class or individual instruction.
• Participate in special training and staff development programs, staff meetings, and other specialized programs.
• May be assigned to one or more classrooms.
• May assist other departments when regular classrooms are closed.

• Serve as a role model for students in how to conduct themselves as citizens and as responsible, intelligent human beings.
• Help instill in students the belief in and practice of ethical principles and democratic values.
• Remain free of alcohol or nonprescribed controlled substance abuse in the workplace throughout employment in the ESC.
• Conduct other duties related to the Instructional/Teacher Aide duties as assigned by the Director of Pupil Services and/or designee.

• Occasional exposure to blood, bodily fluids, and tissue.
• Occasional operation of a vehicle under inclement weather conditions.
• Occasional interaction among unruly children.

• Employed for 185 days at 7.25 hours per day.
• Salary to be established as per salary schedule.
• No vacation pay will be provided.
• Holiday pay shall be given for Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Day, and Memorial Day.
• Retirement and sick leave days accumulated as determined by board policy.
• Board paid employee insurance benefits as per board policy and regulations.

Performance of this job will be evaluated by the instructor(s) to whom it is assigned in cooperation with the Director of Pupil Services and/or designee in cooperation with the person being evaluated.