Substitute Associate

Position Details

• Position Type:
  Substitute/ Substitute Associate
• Date Posted: 8/14/2024
• Location:
  
  Boone Community School District
• Reports To:
  
  Building Principal & Supervising Teacher
• Work Period:
  As needed within the District

Expect the BEST...Achieve SUCCESS!

Assist students with basic classroom work, including computers, language arts, math and research. Assist classroom teacher with preparing classroom work as needed. Support student in general and special education classroom.

• High school diploma or equivalent
• No experience required; experience preferred in:
  Working with children.

• Oral and written communication skills and English language skills.
• Interpersonal relations skills.
• Computer, keyboarding and word processing skills.
• Customer service and public relations skills.
• Critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Organizational skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality in all aspects of the job.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks with frequent interruptions.
• Ability to diffuse and manage volatile and stressful situations.
• Ability to promote and follow building and departmental policies
• Apply and follow all school district policies and state of Iowa laws.

• Operating knowledge of and experience with personal computers and online resources.
• Operating knowledge of and experience with typical office equipment, such as telephones, copiers, fax machines, email, etc.

• 1. Provide support to special education students in the regular and special education classrooms. Supports may include:
  • Assisting students by adapting work.
  • Monitoring and enforcing social and acceptable behavior.
  • Implementing health care plans, toileting assistant, academic support etc.
  • Assist children in the cafeteria, at recess or any other time help is required, including getting on and off the bus.
  • Assist in crisis situations often involving physically aggressive students including, but not limited to, restraining and documentation.
  • If working with behavior students, trained in CPI and understands the rules and regulations pertaining to management of behaviors and protocol safeguards.
  • Implement specialized therapy programs.
  • Leaning, bending, reaching, over work space to use proximity and support for a child working.
• 2. Assist students with classroom activities. Assist with curriculum instructional delivery to both individual and small groups to ensure mastery of subjects.
• 3. Assist teacher(s) with grading, attendance and instructional centers, etc. Assist in preparing materials; laminating, copying, filing, etc.
• 4. Mentor, support and assist students with a variety of abilities and disabilities to become competent, independent adults.
• 5. Supervise and monitor students during playground, lunchroom, field trips, passing periods, classroom activities, etc. Support eloping students by keeping them within 3-5 feet to ensure the student remains safe. Must be physically able to run with student to keep them in close proximity.
• 6. Assist injured or sick students to health room.
• 7. Cover classroom for short periods (i.e. up to 30 minutes) when the teacher is called out of the classroom for staff meetings or other reasons.
• 8. Assist with assessment testing and monitoring of student performance.
• 9. Perform other duties as assigned.

Stand X

Walk X

Sit X

Use hands to finger, handle or feel X

Reach with hands and arms X

Climb or balance X

Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl X

Talk X

Hear X

Taste X

Smell X

Up to 10 pounds X

Up to 25 pounds X

Up to 50 pounds X

Up to 100 pounds X

More than 100 pounds X

Compare X

Analyze X

Communicate X

Copy X

Coordinate X

Instruct X

Compute X

Synthesize X

Evaluate X

Use Interpersonal Skills X

Compile X

Negotiate X

Wet or humid conditions (non-weather) X

Work near moving mechanical parts X

Work in high, precarious places X

Fumes or airborne particles X

Toxic or caustic chemicals X

Outdoor weather conditions X

Extreme cold (non-weather) X

Extreme heat (non-weather) X

Risk of electrical shock X

Work with explosives X

Risk of radiation X

Vibration X

No special vision requirements

Close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less) X

Distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more) X

Color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors) X

Peripheral vision X

Depth perception

Ability to adjust focus X

Very quiet

Quiet

Moderate X

Loud X

Very loud

We are an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to recruiting diverse candidates and ensuring a welcoming, inclusive work environment.