Arnold Memorial Elementary Instructional Assistant

Cleveland City Schools • Cleveland, TN

1d • Onsite

About The Position

To provide assistance to teachers, administrative assistants, and clerical personnel when needed.

Requirements

• Meets the Federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) qualifications including an associate’s degree or 48 hours of college credit or have passed the ParaProfessional Praxis test
• Meets the health and physical qualifications
• Ability to “catch on” or understand instructions and underlying principles and ability to reason and make judgments
• Ability to understand meanings of works and the ideas associated with them
• Ability to perceive or recognize similarities of differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color
• Ability to make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shading of figures
• Ability to move the hands easily and skillfully

Nice To Haves

• May be employed on a part time or full time basis
• Adaptability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure
• Adaptability to dealing with students
• Adaptability to make generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria

Responsibilities

• Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students
• Facilitates student interventions with the guidance and support of a classroom teacher
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes
• Distributes and collects technology, 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree