TEMPORARY POSITION - Student Support Assistant (Shadow)/Instructional Assistant

Job Title:  Additional Educational Assistant / Temp Instructional Assistant (Shadow / One-to-One)

Supervisor:  Principal, Assistant Principal, and/or Teacher

Terms of Employment:  Temporary (as needed)

Wage Category:  Non-Exempt

Qualifications

• Associates degree, two years of college, or pass basic skills and pedagogy (Work-Keys Paraprofessional)
• Prior experience working with children is preferred
• History of previous job experience required. 
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the District Administration may find appropriate and acceptable.  

Job Summary:

To provide supplementary services to a student or students with an IEP or 504 that delineates a need for individualized adult support related to behavior, medical, access to general education and/or instruction.

Essential Duties:

• Assists in administering, scoring, and recording a variety of assessment
• Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher
• Assists the teacher in devising strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students’ needs, interests, and abilities 
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes 
• Helps students access instructional materials assigned by the teacher 
• Follow written plans and seek clarification when needed including but not limited to: student schedules, lesson plans, behavior intervention plans, job coaching for the student on supported employment placements within the community and community based instruction or work-based learning
• Ensure student(s) are following teacher directions and are engaged (i.e., use of visual schedule, following classroom routines)
• Escort assigned student(s) from one location to another (i.e., class to class, on/off bus, etc.)
• Prepare, organize and adapt materials to support teaching and learning as directed 
• Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction
• Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher 
• Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, special areas, extra-curricular activities, and field trips
• Assists with keeping bulletin boards and other classroom learning displays up to date 
• Actively provides instructional support while the teacher is delivering whole group direct instruction
• Under the supervision and direction of the teacher, provides instruction to a small group of students or a student
• Performs general classroom instructional activities (e.g., reads to students, listens to students read, checks notebooks, grades papers, and supervises testing and make-up work, etc.)
• Checks and records student attendance
• Assists students with arrival, transition between activities and dismissal procedures
• Assists with lunch, snack, and clean-up routines
• Attend to assigned student(s) personal needs (i.e., toileting, feeding, dressing, feminine hygiene)
• Alerts the teacher to any problem, issue or concern related to a student or students
• In the absence of the teacher, serve as the chief source of information regarding the student and assists the substitute teacher assigned to the class 
• Observe and document student behavior(s) (i.e., altercation or outburst) and collect data. 
• Maintains daily data collection.
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior expected by a fully licensed teacher
• Maintains confidentiality of information (i.e., psychological information, functional abilities, case history, classroom performance and behavior) about students
• Participants in in-service training programs, as assigned.
• Actively supports the school’s renewal plan through the activities and duties assigned by administration
• Supervisors may assign other duties, as needed  

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Must exhibit manual dexterity to enter data into a computer; to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; hear and understand speech at normal workplace levels, outdoors and on the telephone; speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal workplaces, outdoors and on the telephone; physical agility to lift up to 25 pounds. 

Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Duties are normally performed in a school/classroom environment. Duties may be conducted in work-related community settings and/or occasionally performed on study trips away from the school.

Salary: Hourly / Temp.

Last Updated

02/2024