Cleveland Middle School Instructional Assistant

Cleveland City Schools • Cleveland, TN

1d • Onsite

About The Position

To provide assistance to teachers, administrative assistants, and clerical personnel when needed. This role involves supporting various aspects of classroom and administrative tasks within Cleveland Middle School.

Requirements

• Meets the Federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) qualifications including an associate’s degree or 48 hours of college credit or has 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 words 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.

Responsibilities

• Administers, scores, and records achievement and diagnostic tests as recommended by the teacher.
• Facilitates student interventions with guidance and support from 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 to reinforce learning.
• Checks and records attendance.
• Arranges bulletin boards.
• Types and duplicates tests, worksheets, and supplementary materials.
• Assists in supervising children in the 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