Early Literacy Staff Assistant [ESP3586]

Ogden City School District•Ogden, UT

3d•Onsite

About The Position

This position involves teaching scripted early literacy interventions to small groups of Kindergarten and first-grade students. The Staff Assistant will also work with other students to provide extra instruction and practice on essential grade-level standards they have not yet mastered. The role requires delivering interventions, providing tutoring, monitoring student data, supervising children during recess, mediating student conflicts, administering minor first aid, enforcing school rules, and assisting bilingual/monolingual students with classroom material. Additionally, the position involves tutoring students with English deficiencies in reading, writing, and speaking English, and administering tests at the beginning and end of the school year, recording student progress data.

Requirements

48 college credit hours or a passing score on the ParaPro test
Knowledge and skill in understanding and using alphabetical and numerical systems

Responsibilities

Deliver scripted interventions to individual and/or small groups of students.
Provide tutoring that reinforces subjects already taught and discussed.
Monitor/record data required for behavior, academic, and IEP plans.
Supervise children in the playground.
Mediate arguments and fights between students.
Notify supervisor of serious rule infractions/incidents.
Administer minor first aid.
Enforce school rules.
Escort students to and from the playground.
Distributes playground equipment and storage.
Supervise students and intervene when socially appropriate.
Assist with bilingual/monolingual children in understanding classroom material.
Tutor students (with English deficiencies) in small groups and/or individually in reading, writing, and speaking English, etc.
Administer tests at beginning and end of school year; records data on student progress as required by supervisors, as assigned.