Title III EL Teacher Assistant - 2024-2025 SY (Site TBD)

Position Title: Title III EL Teacher Assistant

Term of Employment: 10 months; Temporary Full-Time 11/18/2024 - 05/27/2025

Reports To: Principal

Pay Information: SG 56; Full Benefits

General Statement of Job

The Title III EL teacher assistant will work with EL students and parents to supplement EL services provided by the EL teacher. The TA will work with the EL teacher and/or content teachers to implement instructional strategies and also communicate with parents during any remote learning to meet the needs of English Learners. The EL teachers will review student data and work with content teachers to identify EL students needing additional support with grade level content. The TA will work one-on-one or in small groups with the EL students.

Essential Job Functions

• Collaborate with EL and content teachers to identity educational areas of need for the students
• Work with EL and/or content teachers to implement plan lessons and activities
• Give individual attention to the EL’s educational needs
• Keep records and provide information about student progress to the EL and/or content teachers
• Supplement EL services and communicate with families to ensure understanding of educational expectations during remote learning.
• Meet with EL and/or content teacher regularly to discuss student needs and progress
• Must be fluent in English. Fluency in Spanish is also preferred, but not required.
• Other related duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Working knowledge of effective methods of dealing with children
• Working knowledge of the core subjects at the grade level to which employment assignment is made
• Some knowledge of the school organization and its community
• Some knowledge of expected behavior of children, that is, basic characteristics of ages and stages
• Skill necessary to operate classroom based technology and standard office equipment
• Skill to make learning aids which will strengthen lesson plans
• Ability to comprehend the purpose of teacher-designed strategies as a fulfillment of the instructional objective
• Ability to discern significant student behavior and refer this to the supervisor
• Ability to impart information to the child’s level of comprehension
• Ability to apply impartially and consistently proper methods of recognition, reward, and correction
• Ability to solve independently most minor problems
• Ability to follow minimally detailed written and oral instructions without constant supervision
• Ability to record and store data accurately
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of student information

Minimum Training and Experience

• Associates Degree (or higher) required; or a minimum of 48 semester hours college-level coursework
• Prior experience in instruction and/or supervision of students

Minimum Qualifications or Standards Required to Perform Essential Job Functions

• Physical Requirements: The work regularly requires standing and walking around the classroom and school. It requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision and hearing. The work requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations. The work often requires bending, squatting, reaching, with the ability to lift, carry, push or pull light weights and rarely, the lifting of weights above 30 pounds. The work occasionally handles/works with biohazards and/or risks for potential job-related injury, such as those found in a laboratory or shop environment. The work requires activities occasionally involving driving automotive equipment. 
• Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
• Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
• Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear.) Must be able to communicate via telephone.

Disclaimer

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this job.