Teaching Assistant - Northview Elementary School

General Education Teacher Assistant – Northview Elementary (2026/27 School Year)

Valid Illinois Paraprofessional License is required to apply. Use the link below for information on how to obtain your license.

Minimum Starting Salary: 0 years of experience with High School Diploma $18.57/hr. 0 years of experience with Associate’s Degree $19.60/hr. 0 years of experience with Bachelor’s Degree $20.63/hr.
Maximum Starting Salary: 30 years of experience with High School Diploma $28.56/hr. 30 years of experience with Associate’s Degree $29.60/hr. 30 years of experience with Bachelor’s Degree $30.65/hr.

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Questions or more information please contact Kelly Mahoney, Principal – kmahoney. Additional contact: hjacobs.

• Must have a Valid Illinois Paraprofessional License or 60 college‑credit hours, or have passed a state‑approved test granting paraprofessional certification.
• Possess strong written and oral communication skills.
• Proficiency in the native bilingual language and English, including the ability to write and speak in both languages fluently and grammatically.
• Live in or be familiar with the surrounding community.

• Assist the teacher in achieving teaching objectives by working with individual students, small groups, or whole classrooms to help students reach the skill levels of the class as a whole.
• Provide a well‑organized, smoothly functioning class environment in which students can take full advantage of the instructional program and available resource materials.
• Translate between the native bilingual language and English in classroom, meeting, or phone‑call situations with students, parents, and teachers.
• Translate documents from the native bilingual language to English correctly.
• Administer, score, and record achievement and diagnostic tests as recommended by the teacher.
• Work with individual students or small groups to reinforce learning of material or skills originally introduced by the teacher.
• Assist the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students’ needs, interests, and abilities.
• Help students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher.
• Guide independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
• Assist with supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
• Assist with large‑group activities such as drill work, reading aloud, and storytelling.
• Read to students, listen to students read, and participate in other forms of oral communication with students.
• Assist students in the library or media center.
• Check notebooks, correct papers, supervise testing, and complete make‑up work as assigned by the teacher.
• Help students with clothing, lunch, snack, clean‑up, wash‑up, and toilet routines.
• Alert the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• Serve as the chief source of information for substitute teachers assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
• Maintain ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students at a high level, as expected of fully licensed teachers.
• Participate in in‑service training programs as assigned.
• Other responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor.

Ability to communicate effectively with parents, students, teachers, administration, and community members; ability to maintain emotional control under stress; ability to use e‑mail and office equipment effectively; ability to work with students individually or in group settings.

Indoor classrooms: exposure to student noise, lawn mowing, music, odors of food, mowed grass, and possible communicable diseases. Outdoor schoolyard, grounds, and field trips: exposure to temperature variations and mowed grass. Regular work attendance is required.