Role: Instructional Assistant/Office Assistant

Summary: To provide assistance to teachers, secretaries, and clerical personnel when needed

Salary Schedule: Based on level of degree and experience.

Education/Experiences:

• Not less than a high school education or general equivalency diploma;
• Para Professional Test required without 48 hours of college;
• At least one (1) year of experience is preferred, but not required, so that with appropriate training, service may be provided in the specific role for which employed; and
• Meets necessary health and physical qualifications.

Essential Duties:

• Prepares communications using various types of office equipment;
• Receives and routes all incoming calls;
• Greets visitors and maintains a log of visitors to the school;
• Makes copies;
• Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students;
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes;
• Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction;
• Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips;
• Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and makeup work as assigned by the teacher;
• Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills;
• Assumes responsibility for knowing and following the safety rules and proper procedures associated with the responsibilities of the job;
• Checks and records attendance;
• Arranges bulletin boards;
• Types and duplicates tests, worksheets, and supplementary materials;
• Assists in supervising the children in lunchroom, playground, and bus loading;
• Assists the teacher in assimilating materials for class displays; and
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Physical Demands:

This job requires lifting of objects that exceed 50 lbs., or the average weight of a child, if assigned to elementary grades, with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 25 lbs or more. Other physical demands that may be required are as follows:

• Pushing and/or pulling
• Climbing
• Stooping, kneeling and/or crawling
• Reaching
• Talking
• Hearing
• Seeing

Vocational Preparation:

The required vocational preparation may come from any of the following:

• Vocational education
• Apprentice training
• On-the-job training
• Essential experience in other jobs

Temperament (Personal traits)

• Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure.
• Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judg�mental criteria.
• Adaptability to dealing with students.
• Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judg�mental criteria.

Capacity and Ability Requirements:

Specific capacities and abilities may be required of an individual in order to learn or perform adequately a task or job duty.

• Intelligence: The ability to understand instructions and underlying ptj.nciples.  Ability to reason and make judgments.
• Verbal: Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them.
• Manual Dexterity: Ability to move the hands easily and skillfully.
• Form Perception: To make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures.
• Color Discrimination: Ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color.

Work Conditions:

Normal working environment.

General Requirements:

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of  work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be a complete list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so assigned.