Bilingual Teaching Assistant - JW Eater Junior High School

Bilingual Teaching Assistant - JW Eater Junior High School 2026/27

Job

Bilingual Teacher JW Eater Junior High beginning with the 2026/27 school year

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

Salary

• 0 yrs experience, High School Diploma: $18.57/hr
• 0 yrs experience, Associates Degree: $19.60/hr
• 0 yrs experience, Bachelors Degree: $20.63/hr
• 30 yrs experience, High School Diploma: $28.56/hr
• 30 yrs experience, Associates Degree: $29.60/hr
• 30 yrs experience, Bachelors Degree: $30.65/hr

Contact:
Heather Jacobs, Principal | jhacobs

General

Qualifications:

• Must have 60 hours college course credits or have passed a State approved test granting paraprofessional certification.
• Possess strong communication skills (written and oral).

Job Summary:

• Assist the teacher in achieving teaching objectives by working with individual students, small groups, or whole classrooms to help students achieve 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 language of bilingual and English in classroom, meeting, or phone call situations with students, parents, and teachers; translate documents from native language to English correctly.
• Administer, score, and record achievement and diagnostic tests as recommended by the teacher for individual students.
• Work with students or small groups to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• 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, field trips, and other large group activities.
• Read to students, listen to students read, and participate in other oral communication activities with students.
• Assist students in the library or media center.
• Check notebooks, correct papers, and supervise testing and 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 and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
• Maintain the same high level of ethical behaviour and confidentiality of information about students as expected of fully licensed teachers.
• Participate in in‑service training programs as assigned.
• Other responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.

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

Working Conditions: Indoor classrooms expose to student noise, lawn mowing, music, odors of food, mowed grass, and possible communicable diseases; outdoor schoolyard and grounds expose to temperatures (hot, warm, cool & cold) and mowed grass; regular work attendance required.