Job Details

Instructional Assistant

To provide assistance to teachers, secretaries, and clerical personnel when needed. Salary schedule: Based on level of degree and experience. Education/experiences: Not less than a high school education or general equivalency diploma; Para Professional Test required without 48 hours of college; At least one (1) year of experience is preferred, but not required, so that with appropriate training, service may be provided in the specific role for which employed; and meets necessary health and physical qualifications.

Essential duties:

• Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes
• Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction
• Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips
• Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and makeup work as assigned by the teacher
• Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills
• Assumes responsibility for knowing and following the safety rules and proper procedures associated with the responsibilities of the job
• Checks and records attendance
• Arranges bulletin boards
• Types and duplicates tests, worksheets, and supplementary materials
• Assists in supervising the children in lunchroom, playground, and bus loading
• Assists the teacher in assimilating materials for class displays
• Performs other duties as assigned

Physical demands: This job requires lifting of objects that exceed 50 lbs., or the average weight of a child, if assigned to elementary grades, with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 25 lbs or more. Other physical demands that may be required are as follows: pushing and/or pulling, climbing, stooping, kneeling and/or crawling, reaching.

Vocational preparation: The required vocational preparation may come from any of the following: vocational education, apprentice training, on-the-job training, essential experience in other jobs.

Temperament (personal traits): Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure. Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria. Adaptability to dealing with students. Capacity and ability requirements: intelligence, the ability to understand instructions and underlying principles. Ability to reason and make judgments. Verbal: ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them. Manual dexterity: ability to move the hands easily and skillfully. Form perception: to make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures. Color discrimination: ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color.

Work conditions: normal working environment.