FLSA STATUS:
Non-Exempt
QUALIFICATIONS:
- High School Diploma
- Associate’s Degree or pass the Para Pro Test
- Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card
- {Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Governing Board may find appropriate and acceptable}
REPORTS TO:
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:
- Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students
- Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher
- Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based in a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities
- Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes
- Helps students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher
- Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction
- Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teachers
- Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips
- Keeps bulletin Governing Board and other classroom learning displays up-to-date
- Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and story-telling
- Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
- Assists students in the library or media center
- Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and make-up work, as assigned by the teacher
- Checks and records student attendance
- Helps students with their clothing
- Assists with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines
- Assists with wash-up and toilet routines
- Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student
- Serves as the chief source of information and help any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher
- Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers
- Participates in in-service training programs, as assigned
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:
Ten-month employee. Salary and work year to be established by the Governing Board.
EVALUATION:
Performance of this job will be evaluated annually in accordance with the provisions of the Governing Board’s policy GDO Evaluation of Support Staff Members.