Lower School | Teaching Assistant

Greater Atlanta Christian Schools•Atlanta, GA

13h

About The Position

Greater Atlanta Christian School (GACS) is a leading independent school in northeast Georgia in Norcross. We are a faith-infused, academically rich community, ranked at the top of the state for teaching quality, arts, and athletics. We are Christians, change-makers, dreamers, aspirers, and hard workers. Together, we are raising a generation of bright, inspired, generous leaders. We share in a community where high academic rigor is matched by active faith and a deep commitment to care for one another in a collegiate-style campus. We live out our passions, our curiosity, our faith, and our pursuit to Be Greater. We are seeking dynamic, engaging individuals that will be responsible for assisting teachers with our Lower School students in face-to-face, online, and blended learning environments.

Requirements

A minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
Excellent interpersonal, communication, conflict resolution, and organizational skills
Ability to convey a dynamic, energetic, patient, and nurturing spirit
Ability to apply professional, Christian, ethical and legal standards of conduct in relationships with students, parents, school personnel, and co-workers, particularly as it relates to confidentiality
Flexible, with the ability to work in a highly demanding, stressful environment
Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills
Ability to demonstrate initiative and work independently
Ability to embrace innovation as a tool to teach, engage, and motivate students
Ability to lift and carry children (up to 50 lbs.), including kneeling, bending, stooping, stretching, or squatting to interact with children; use fingers and hands to manipulate small objects; run short distances sit on the floor; bend, stretch, twist and reach out; move arms and legs quickly; and, coordinate movement of several parts of the body such as arms and legs, while the body is moving.
Successful background check, reference checking, and drug/alcohol screening clearance.
Acknowledged and agreement with GAC’s Statement of Faith and Community Covenant.

Nice To Haves

Relevant experience, with teaching assistance experience in early childhood through fifth-grade school environment preferred.

Responsibilities

Assisting the Lead Teacher(s) with instructing and supervising students in classroom activities, including the preparation of activities to support lesson plans.
Working with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce new skills initially introduced by the teacher.
Assisting the Lead Teacher in devising and implementing special strategies for reinforcing skills based on the needs and abilities of each student.
Assisting with critical daily activities such as classroom transition times, playground, mealtimes, and halls.
Utilizing appropriate language, interactions, and positive discipline; model positive, nurturing Christian behavior.
Continuously monitoring students to ensure a safe environment at all times; maintain a clean, organized learning environment.
Assisting with parental communications about daily classroom routine, expectations, policies, field trips, and volunteer opportunities.
Maintaining up-to-date and accurate student folders and records.
Preparing bulletin boards, graphs, and charts.
Encouraging the development of student self-control by utilizing classroom management and modeling techniques.
Maintaining quality results by following and enforcing standards.
Performing other duties as assigned.