Teaching Assistant (General Education) - Pleasant Acres Elementary
Applicants must hold a active Illinois Paraprofessional License
Link to information on how to obtain your paraprofessional license.
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Why choose RCS? Here are three reasons, just to get started...
- Our Students. Once you meet them, you will love them!
- Small Classes. We pride ourselves on our very small class sizes (15-20 per class).
- Professional Support. Our schools have Instructional Coaches, Tech Integration Specialists, Reading and Math Specialists, Counselors and Social Workers all to support you and your students.
Minimum Starting Salary: 0 yrs of experience with No Degree $16.55/hr
0 yrs of experience with Associates Degree - $17.05/hr
0 yrs of expderience with Bachelors Degree - $17.58/hr
Maximum Starting Salary: 30 yrs of experience wit No Degree - $26.59/hr
30yrs of experience with Associates Degree - $27.09/hr
30 yrs of expderience with Bachelors Degree - $27.67/hr
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District, Salary & Benefit Information Job Summary:
To assist the teacher in achieving teaching objectives by working with individual students, small groups, or whole classrooms to help students achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole. To provide a well--organized, smoothly functioning class environment in which students can take full advantage of the instructional program and available resource materials.
General Qualifications:
· Must have valid active Illiniois Paraprofessional License.
· Possess strong communication skills (written and oral).
ESSENTIAL JOB SKILLS
Staff member will effectively perform the following duties in a timely manner:
· Administer, score, and record such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
· Work with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
· Assist the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
· Help students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher.
· Guide independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
· Assist with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
· Assist with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and story telling.
· Read to students, listen to students read, and participate in other forms of oral communication with students.
· Assist students in the library or media center.
· Check notebooks, correct papers, and supervise testing and make--up work as assigned by the teacher.
· Help students with their clothing.
· Assist with lunch, snack and clean--up routines.
· Assist with wash--up and toilet routines.
· Alert the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
· Serve as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
· Maintain the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
· Participate in inservice training programs as assigned.
· Other responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.
Mental Demands:
· Ability to communicate effectively with parents, students, teachers, administration and community members.
· Ability to maintain emotional control under stress.
· Ability to use e--mail and office equipment effectively.
· Ability to work with students individually or in group settings.
Working Conditions:
· Indoor classrooms/School exposure to: student noise, lawn mowing, music, odors of food, mowed grass and possible communicable diseases.
· Outdoor schoolyard and grounds, field trips: exposure to temperatures (hot, warm, cool & cold) and exposure to mowed grass.
· Regular work attendance.