What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lower School Teachers Aide - North Campus position at Prestonwood Christian Academy?
Job Details
Job Location: North Campus - Prosper, TX
Salary Range: Undisclosed
Description
Mission: To assist Christian parents by helping equip students to embrace biblical truth, strive for academic excellence, and model Christ-like leadership to influence their homes, churches and communities for Christ.
Employee Profile:
Spiritually, the employee shall possess characteristics that reflect:
- Acceptance without reservation of the PCA doctrinal beliefs
- A strong clear Christian testimony
- A mature, godly spirit
- A person of faith and prayer
Personally, the employees life shall reflect:
- A lifestyle of biblical integrity
- A spirit of dedication, commitment, flexibility, and responsiveness
- The ability to listen and respond to counsel
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assist and support the teacher in any way possible with classroom control, art projects, room decorating, snack and lunch time, cutting, pasting, copying, laminating, delivering items, etc.
- Responsible for getting student lunches from the cafeteria and delivery to classroom
- Help with classroom organization and clean up
- Assist children to restroom, clinic, office, specials, etc.
- Always available to teachers during class and scheduled times
- Supervise class during library times and as needed
- Assist with other grades and classes as scheduled or as needed
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge
- Early care duty on a rotating basis as scheduled by your administrator
- Professional attitude with regards to parents; allowing the teacher to discuss any behavior or academic problems with the parents and allowing the teacher to meet with parents for conferences
- Support and assist teachers with and on field trips. Never is an aide to take a class on a field trip without a teacher present
- Maintain professionalism in regards to making any personal phone calls or taking care of personal business during time scheduled to be with your class and/or teacher
- Other duties as assigned by the Principal
Qualifications/Skills:
- College degree and/or Aide experience preferred
- Good communication skills
- Flexibility and patience in times of stress
- Prestonwood Baptist Church member preferred
Physical and Mental Requirements and Work Environment Conditions:
- Talking expressing ideas by means of the spoken word to convey instructions to students/parents and co-workers accurately, loudly or quickly
- Hearing ability to perceive sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction and to receive detailed information through oral communication
- Standing and walking for sustained periods of time moving about on foot for lecturing and monitoring students in the classroom, as well as throughout the building and playgrounds
- Stooping, crouching, crawling and kneeling ability to assist small children with various needs
- Climbing, Reaching, Pushing, Pulling and Lifting ability to pick up small children as need as well as for classroom set up purposes; occasional lifting between 30 50 pounds
- Repetitive motion of the wrists, hands and fingers
- Close visual acuity required for viewing a computer monitor, preparing and analyzing data and figures, transcribing and reading
- Environment is primarily indoors in a classroom environment as well as intermittent outside weather conditions, including extreme heat and cold
- Works in a highly stressful environment dealing with a wide variety of challenges, deadlines and a varied and diverse array of contacts
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