What are the responsibilities and job description for the CLASSROOM ASSISTANTS (K-12) FOR 2025-2026 SCHOOL YEAR position at 21st Century Charter School at Gary?
About GEO Academies:
GEO Academies is a national, non-profit network of open-enrollment, public charter schools committed to empowering students to accelerate their academic pathways, advance their social mobility, and achieve their career and lifelong goals. Our innovative and award-winning K-16 GEO Academies Model begins with personalized, competency-based learning and accelerates students into postsecondary immersion as early as 9th grade. GEO Academies students have the opportunity to earn a full college degree or career credential even before graduating from high school - at no cost to families.
About Us:
21st Century Charter School at Gary is a free K-12 public charter school. We are building a team of excellence. We are the top performing charter school in Gary, Indiana. We are one of the few Indiana schools offering an early college program, which allows our qualifying high school students to take real college courses for real college credit, free of charge to our students and their families. Our curriculum and our teaching methods are designed using Core Knowledge in K-8, Project Lead the Way beginning in middle school, and a blended learning model in middle school through high school. We are a TAP school! Please join us if you are committed to excellence, mission driven, and ready to take 21st Century Charter School @ Gary to uncommonly high levels of achievement! Our teachers cultivate in our students the critical thinking skills they will need to understand how the world around them works and to become leaders and agents of positive change in the world.
REPORTS TO/TERM:
Principal & Administrative Staff
Full Time 10-month position
ESSENTIAL POSITION FUNCTIONS:
A Classroom Assistant is required to perform the following duties:
- Work collaboratively and harmoniously with Lead Classroom Teacher
- Accept and incorporate feedback and coaching from Lead Teacher and Administrative Team
- Support established classroom rules and protocol
- Fill in as Teacher when Lead Teacher is absent
- Motivate and support students in reaching high levels of academic success
- Create a positive student culture around online learning and small group tutoring
- Maintain high behavioral expectations for all students
- Interpret, manage, and utilize multiple sets of data in order to best support student progress
- Perform targeted individual assistance and small group tutoring
- Assist with the creation of individual learning plans for each student enrolled
- Maintain frequent communication with students and their support network regarding academic progress
- Communicate and collaborate with teachers and school administrators
- Participate in staff development opportunities
- Participate in all required staff meetings
- Ensure the security of computer equipment and accessories
- Perform other duties, as deemed appropriate, by Lead Classroom Teacher and Principal
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Associate degree OR 60 career credits at a state-accredited college or university; Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Desire to grow professionally
- Commitment to the mission and organizational goals of GEO Academies
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 2 years’ experience working with children in an urban setting
- At least 9 hours concentrated in Science, Math, ELA or Reading
