Instructional Assistant - PreSchool

Overview

Position Type:
Early Childhood Center/ Developmental Assistant

Date Posted: 9/22/2025

Location:

Warren Early Childhood Center

Closing Date:
Until filled

• Monitors activities and behavior of children during the absence of the classroom teacher(s) to ensure their physical and environmental safety, adherence to appropriate conduct and disciplinary controls.
• Assists the teacher(s) in the supervision of learning activities, circulating within the classroom and providing assistance and learning support to children.
• Provides instruction to children as prescribed by the supervising teacher(s) and reinforces skills introduced by the teacher(s); may utilize games, stories, or other constructive activities to enhance the students’ learning skills.
• Assists the teacher(s) in checking and objectively evaluating students’ progress; instructs children individually and in small groups reinforcing skills based upon instructional guidelines.
• Assists children with gross motor activities such as grasping, holding objects, posture, crawling, walking, and running; assists children with fine motor activities through activities such as playing with toys, cutting materials, or coloring.
• May be asked to assist in the preparation of lesson plans; may be asked to provide input and assistance in the development of classroom activities and learning tools.
• Assists the teacher(s) by noticing students’ potential learning, language and/or communication deficiencies; monitors children’s progressive learning skills; makes the teacher aware of students’ possible learning deficiencies; documents records of learning activities and diagnosis.
• Prepares or assists in the preparation of instructional materials; performs support tasks such as photocopying materials, laminating items, typing correspondence, and filing paperwork and documentation.
• Coordinates with media center staff for classroom learning resources; sets up equipment in the classroom for teacher's instructional studies.
• Assists in preparing classroom bulletin boards, classroom decorations, displays of children’s activities, and other classroom objectives.
• May be asked to prepare draft reports and to tentatively complete forms, schedules, and other data as directed.
• Learns assigned bus route(s) to assist with proper boarding of students.
• Maintains accurate and complete records of a variety of student information which may require the use of a computer to enter scores and other children’s data.
• May be assigned monitoring duties, i.e., hallways, lunchroom, restrooms, and bus duty; ensures appropriate student conduct during these periods; escorts students to designated activity areas (i.e., music room, computer room, art classes, assemblies, etc.).
• May be assigned to various labs providing assistance to teachers and instruction/information to students.
• Responsible for keeping up to date on current technology, as job appropriate, being used by Warren.
• With the support of the district, attends training to ensure skill level in various technologies is at the level required to perform in current position.
• Responsible for timely and accurate information they maintain as part of their job responsibilities.
• Data Utilization:
  Requires the ability to arrange, compare, count, differentiate, measure and/or sort data and/or information. Includes judging whether readily observable functional, structural or compositional characteristics are similar to or divergent from prescribed standards, procedures or routines.
• Human Interaction:
  Requires the ability to provide guidance, assistance, and/or interpretation to others on how to apply procedures and standards to specific situations.
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization:
  Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of standard office equipment.
• Verbal Aptitude:
  Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference data and information.
• Mathematical Aptitude:
  Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
• Functional Reasoning:
  Requires ability to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Involves routine work according to clearly…