The posting
North Central Education Service District is accepting applications to work as a classified substitute, supporting special education or pre-school OPK (Early Learning Programs)
Title: Instructional Assistant
Department: Special Education
Classification: Classified
Supervised by: Superintendent or Designee
Work Year: Assigned by Superintendent
Job Purpose Statement:
The purpose of the Instructional Assistant is to assists a classroom or special education teacher by performing a wide variety of instructional and clerical duties along with student supervision.
Job Qualifications: Education and Experience:
- High School diploma or equivalent;
- 72 quarter hours of accredited college or equivalent education or successfully passed Work Keys Test in the areas of Math, Reading, and Business Writing IF working in a Title I Capacity.
Licenses, Certifications, Bonding, and/or Testing Required:
- Criminal Justice Fingerprint Clearance
- Valid Driver’s License and evidence of insurability
- Successfully pass district background screening
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. ·
- Knowledge of basic teaching methods and procedures.
- Knowledge of instructional materials and their uses.
- Knowledge of effective student management techniques.
- Knowledge of current office practices and procedures.
- Ability to enjoy interaction with and effectively supervise students.
- Ability to instruct a wide variety of students in a number of different situations.
- Ability to understand the phases and temperaments of children and young adolescents at different growth and maturity levels.
- Ability to pass and “physically demonstrate" the physical restraint of students under the Oregon State Restraint and CPI Guidelines.
- Ability to exercise good judgment in stressful situations.
- Ability to operate basic office and audio-visual equipment.
- Ability to accurately perform alphabetizing, record-keeping and filing procedures.
- Ability to accurately transfer, record and convey information and materials, as required by the position.
- Ability to abide by the confidentiality rights of students and parents.
- Ability to work independently with a minimum of supervision.
- Ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
- Ability to apply school district rules, regulations, policies and practices in a fair, consistent manner.
Essential Job Functions:
- Assists with implementing the Individualized Education Plan (IEP) for each assigned student.
- Assists special education staff with preparation, implementation and evaluation of individual and group instructional and/or behavioral programs.
- Assists in communicating with teachers and parents on a students' progress.
- Assists with record-keeping to monitor students' daily and monthly data on learning progress.
- Assists students in understanding instructional and/or behavioral concepts by reemphasizing the basic elements of teacher directed activities.
- Provides students with additional practice on identified skill area.
- Assists with the preparation of instructional and/or behavioral for classroom activities.
- Guides independent study, and remedial work set up by the teacher.
- Supervises and performs academic and classroom testing in accordance with established procedures.
- Sets up and operates audio-visual and other instructional equipment.
- Records grades, checks student work, corrects papers that do not require subjective evaluation and supervises testing and make-up work.
- Secures and stores instructional materials as needed by the teacher or students.
- Supervises students during instructional and non-instructional activities, including hallways, lunchroom, playground, gymnasium, and library and bus lines.
- Keeps records and charts of student progress.
- Assists in filing, sorting, alphabetizing, data collecting and organizing materials.
- Collects and accounts for monies received.
- Enforces classroom and school rules in a consistent manner and follows guidelines for implementation of disciplinary actions.
- Detains students for alleged misconduct and delivers students to appropriate authority.
- Monitors all non-school personnel and directs them to the officer or off school premises.
- Maintains a positive and effective relationship with students, staff, parents and patrons.
