Abrams Elementary - Instructional Aide (Paraprofessional)

Instructional Aide

Bessemer City School System

Job Title: Instructional Aide (Paraprofessional)

Qualifications:

1. High school graduate or equivalent/ 2 Years of College
2. Previous experience dealing with young children or a proven ability to work with children or a proven ability to work with children.
3. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

Reports to: Teacher and Principal

Job Goal: To assist the teacher achieve teaching objectives by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole.

Performance Responsibilities:

1. Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for the individual students.
2. Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
3. Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
4. Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
5. Helps students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher.
6. Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction.
7. Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
8. Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
9. Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up to date.
10. Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and storytelling.
11. Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
12. Assists students in the library or media center.
13. Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and make-up work, as assigned by the teacher.
14. Helps students with their clothing.
15. Assists with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines.
16. Assists with wash up and toilet routines.
17. Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
18. Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
19. Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
20. Participates in in-service training programs, as assigned.
21. Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Terms of Employment: Salary and work year to be established by the Board. Salary in adherence and compliance with approved salary schedule.

Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated annually in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Support Services Personnel.

The above statement reflects the general details considered necessary to describe the principle functions of the job identified and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be inherent in the job.