Countywide Supervisory Aide​/Paraprofessional​/ECCAT Grades PK-- Anticipated

Early Childhood Classroom Assistant Grades PK-3

Job Goal:
To provide a well-organized, smoothly functioning class environment in which students can take full advantage of the instructional program and available resource materials; to contribute to the efficient operation of a school office so that it can play its effective part in the education process; and, to assist in providing safe transportation so that students may enjoy the fullest possible advantages from Ohio County Schools curricular and extra-curricular programs.

Qualifications:

• Possess ECCAT Authorization as required by law.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Pass the approved West Virginia Service Personnel Tests for School Aide.
• Completion of a successful background check.
• Basic word processing skills preferred.
• Be able to understand and follow written and oral instructions.
• Be able to prepare reports and perform required bookkeeping procedures.
• Possess computer skills to include competency in word processing, data management and spreadsheets.
• Experience and training with toileting, catheterization, aspiration techniques and other special needs as needed.
• Any combination of training and experience which would lead to successful employment as an Aide in any one or all of the following areas:
  Teacher Aide, Clerical Aide, Special Education Aide, and/or Bus Aide.
• This job is classified as requiring a medium-heavy work capacity.

Essential Functions of the Job:

• Adhere to all federal, state, and district laws and policies.
• Promote and adhere to the district mission, core beliefs, academic goals, and target areas.
• Prepare student attendance reports.
• Provide and collect workbooks, papers and other materials for instruction.
• Collect and record collection of money.
• Read to students and participate in other forms of oral communications with students.
• Administer, score, and record such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
• Work with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Help student's master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher.
• Operate and care for classroom and office equipment including computers.
• Assist with lunch, snack and clean up routines.
• Assist with toileting and wash-up routines of both males and females students, which may include catheterization, associated lifting, aspiration techniques, and other special needs as required.
• Assist with dressing and undressing of both male and female students.
• Maintain a high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students.
• Type a variety of materials such as letters, student records, reports and memos.
• Demonstrate the ability to remain and respond calmly and objectively to a variety of situations.
• Provide a variety of behavior management techniques in a crisis situation before resorting to passive restraint.
• Exhibit the physical attributes to passively restrain both male and female students over an extended period of time.
• Display the ability to physically control adolescent male and female students.
• Assist with maintaining a structured learning environment through appropriate organization of time, space arrangements, material organization.
• Implement established rules, instructions, preventive discipline, and other environmental stimuli to bring about significant changes in student functioning.
• Implement social, tangible, token activity, and other contingency environmental stimuli to manage behavior and bring about behavior changes.
• Follow lesson plans developed for instructional, social academic and emotional skills and objectives.
• Assist with modifying curriculum materials.
• Assist the teacher, other staff members or administration in working with students.
• Provide input into planning and scheduling.
• Participate in staff development training for the purpose of enhancing skills.
• Assist in keeping accurate and efficient records.
• Be cognizant of special education characteristics.
• Provide a positive role model for students.
• Apply humor, joy and enthusiasm under appropriate circumstances.
• Self-evaluate personal and job related characteristics on a…