Substitute Teacher Aide - Red Clay School District

Do you want to be a part of something BIG? Do you have a passion for education? Do you want to impact the lives of students? As leaders in the education staffing space since 2000, ESS specializes in placing qualified staff in daily, long-term, and permanent K-12 school district positions including substitute teachers, paraprofessionals, and other school support staff. Over the last 22 years, we have innovated education staffing to provide dynamic solutions to school districts and professional opportunities to passionate educators. Our team serves over 5 million students with a pool of 85,000 substitute and permanent employees throughout 34 states. Internally, the ESS team is comprised of 650 individuals with a passion for education working together to ensure our 900 partner districts experience valuable education every day.

At ESS our motto is, “Everyday counts!” We take opportunities every day to grow and better our company as well as our employees.

OVERVIEW: Paraprofessional educators work under the direction of the classroom teacher to provide extra support to students with special needs, promoting maximum academic and personal growth. They are also known as school aides, teacher assistants, instructional aides, one-to-one aides, and more.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide instructional reinforcement for individual students or small groups of students.
• Assist teach with classroom management and general supervision of the class.
• Assist with administrative duties such as setting up equipment and preparing materials.
• Supervise students in the cafeteria, schoolyard, specials, hallways, on field trips, and/or during before and after school programs.
• Attend to students’ physical, personal, academic, and emotional needs.
• Support students with special needs by following provisions specified in their IEPs/504 Plans.
• Other duties as assigned or as become evident.

COMPETENCIES

Language, Math and Reasoning  

Language Skills

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in on and one and small group situations to customers, clients and other employees of the organization.

Math Skills

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Abilities

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but involved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, and TRAINING:

• Minimum of a HS diploma or GED equivalent. 

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:

• Child Protections Registry Results*
• Negative TB test*

*All clearances must be from within last 365 days

COMPUTER SKILLS:

• There are no specific requirements for this position.

 TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:

• There are no specific requirements for this position.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS - The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, talk or hear.

VISION REQUIREMENTS:

• Close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less) to assist students.
• Distance Vision (clear vision at 20 feet of more) to supervise while in cafeteria or schoolyard.
• Ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).

WORK ENVIRONMENT - The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• This position works in an environment with moderate noise level. (Examples: business office with computers and printers, light traffic.)
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet or humid conditions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outdoor weather conditions.

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