Itinerant Instructional Assistant

SYLACAUGA CITY SCHOOLS Position Description

Title:

Instructional Assistant

Reports To:

Principal and Assigned Teacher(s) Job Goal:
To increase the effectiveness of the teacher and assist with individual
students or small groups to help them achieve the skill levels of the
class as a whole.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• 1. Relieve teacher of non-teaching responsibilities.
• 2. Participate in in-service training programs.
• 3. Alert the teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• 4. Perform clerical work required, i.e., taking attendance, checking out library books,
  audio-visual equipment, collecting lunch money and tickets, and any other routine book
  work.
• 5. Assist teacher with lunchroom, bathroom, playground activities and bus duty as well as
  field trips.
• 6. Operate and care for equipment used in classroom instruction and inform principal if
  equipment is not working properly.
• 7. Assist teacher with emergency drills.
• 8. Assist teacher in collecting and distributing books and materials for the classroom.
• 9. Work with bulletin boards and other classroom displays.
• 10. Perform other related tasks as assigned.
• 11. Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about
  students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
• 12. Assist in administering and scoring of assessment and diagnostic tests for individuals
  and small groups (K-6).
• 13. Assist any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
• 14. Follow a daily schedule as assigned by teacher(s) and approved by principal.