Instructional Assistant - Elementary School

Instructional Assistant
- Elementary School

• Position Type:
  Student Support Services/ Instructional Assistant-Elementary
• Date Posted: 5/22/2025
• Location:
  
  Division wide
• Date Available:
  
  08/14/2025

Under the direct supervision of a certified staff member, to assist certified professional staff with students in the classroom to meet instructional goals and objectives, and to free certified professional employees from non‑professional duties such as proctoring study halls to enable them to make a contribution to other aspects of the educational program, such as curriculum development.

(These are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work performed. The omission of specific duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.)

Salary: $22,583- $34,325 (Commensurate with Experience)

Please visit the NCPS website to determine salary specifics according to the current salary scale:

• Assists and guides students to reinforce reading, language arts, mathematics, computer instruction, and other skills.
• Works with students individually and in small groups to reinforce basic learning and implement assigned programs. Work with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills. Teach small groups using materials (adapted to a specific group) in different parts of the room on in different locations around the school.
• Assists professional staff in the administration and correction of classroom exercises, tests and assessments.
• Assists in classroom preparations and strategies for reinforcing instructional materials and skills according to individual student needs.
• Assists with record‑keeping procedures to document student learning and performance.
• Assists with classroom behavioral management to minimize disruptions, ensure a safe and orderly classroom, and ensure students are on task.
• Assists students in non‑instructional areas, such as supervising the student lunch programs, bus duty, playground duty, corridor, study hall, and other related non‑instructional areas.
• Accompanies students on field trips for the purpose of assisting with supervision.
• Constructs, copies and distributes and use educational materials as needed.
• Assists teacher with parent contact as requested to foster effective and participatory parent involvement in student education.
• Assists students with special needs in all aspects of classroom instruction to maximize inclusion, learning, achievement if IEP objectives, etc.
• Participates in IEP process and serves as resource for the student personnel evaluation team as needed.
• Assist students with physical or mental disabilities with activities of daily living for the purpose of maximizing their ability to participate in school or learning activities.
• Follows all applicable safety rules, procedures and regulations governing the proper manner of assistance for all students, including those with disabilities or other special needs.
• Implement lesson plans designed by the teacher.
• Provide supplemental instruction in complementary skills.
• Support instruction by monitoring students, answering questions, checking and correcting students' answers, etc.
• Support instruction by writing, modeling, or demonstrating with the use of concrete examples for students to understand.
• Team teaches with the teacher when appropriate.
• Assist the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing academic material and behavioral skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
• Guide independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work.
• Assist with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and story‑telling.
• Read to students, listen to students read, and participate in other forms of oral communication with students.
• Assist with the supervision of students during lunch periods, emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
• Assist students in the library media center, computer lab, etc.
• Check notebooks, correct papers, and supervise testing and make‑up work.