This is a full-time position with a 9.5-month work schedule. The Instructional Aide will report to the lead grade level teacher in one of the following grades: K,1, or 2.

Position Overview

Instructional Aides support homeroom teachers typically in grades K-2 and share responsibility for the education of their students. They are expected to demonstrate high moral character and work collaboratively to create a working and learning environment for all students that is safe, secure, and respectful. 

The Instructional Aide's essential duties and responsibilities are as follows:

• Assist the lead teachers with lesson preparation, instruction, and classroom management
• Instruct students individually or in small groups
• Develop the intellect and character of every student
• Oversee student behavior and discipline in a manner consistent with the school's mission to develop students of character and virtue

Qualifications

An Instructional Aide shall be a person who is well-organized, well-rounded, engaging, and who has the ability to interact joyfully with students, parents, and colleagues. Additionally, strong candidates will possess:

• Ability and commitment to furthering the classical mission and vision of the school
• Ability to exercise wise judgment and prudent decision making
• Understanding of explicit, intensive phonics methodology (such as Orton-Gillingham)
• A high school diploma at minimum; a bachelor's degree preferred
• A minimum of two (2) years of experience working with school-age children, preferably in a classroom setting

Strong candidates will also embrace the school's organizational values:

• The tenets of classical, liberal arts education
• Community and partnership in the common pursuit of forming intelligent, virtuous citizens
• Excellence in teaching and learning
• The virtues we aim to teach our students: prudence, justice, fortitude, humility, gratitude, perseverance, and compassion

Compensation, Benefits and Hiring

Pay is competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications. Benefits offered for full-time employees include health benefits, paid vacation, personal days, paid holidays, and enrollment in the State Teachers Retirement System. Children will receive enrollment priority if a parent is a full-time employee at the time of enrollment. All employees will be required to pass background checks.

FLSA: Non-exempt