What are the responsibilities and job description for the Instructional Assistant position at William Penn School District?
Position Title :
Instructional Assistant
Position Location : Bell
Bargaining Unit :
William Penn Educational Support Personnel Association - 10 month
Effective Date : August 22, 2024
Job description last updated : 04 / 18 / 2024
Position Summary : The ideal candidate will support the District's mission and vision and will have the primary responsibility to assist teachers with children with special needs in achieving teaching objectives. They will do this by working with individual students or small groups of children to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole.
District Summary
The William Penn School District is Located in southeastern Delaware County and serves approximately 5,000 students who reside in Aldan, Colwyn, Darby, East Lansdowne, Lansdowne, and Yeadon Boroughs. We share a collective vision to educate, nurture and empower all students to become career and / or college ready.
Key Responsibilities & Essential Duties :
- Assists teacher in the daily classroom operation as directed
- At the direction of the teacher, conducts learning exercises with small groups of children
- Demonstrates understanding of students' problems and demonstrates initiative and creativity with students and their programs
- Follows through with prescribed behavioral management programs
- Guides children in working and playing harmoniously with other children
- Alerts the teacher to special needs of individual children
- Provides escort and assistance to children as necessary
- Helps maintain individual records for each child as required
- Fosters good eating habits and table manners in children
- Assists teacher in maintaining neat work and study areas
- Assists with the supervision of children as directed during regular play periods and lunch as well as in the classroom
- Collects and displays suitable material for educational displays
- Other duties as assigned by teacher or administrator
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Level of Compensation : $15 / HR
Disclaimer :
The preceding list is not exhaustive and may be supplemented as necessary. The statements contained herein reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions of this job, the scope of responsibility, and the level of knowledge and skills typically required, but should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements, skills or duties so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside their normal responsibilities from time to time as needed.
All employment open positions are made available on a nondiscriminatory basis without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, gender, age, disability, or veteran status.
Job descriptions are written as a representative list of the ADA essential duties performed by the entire classification. They cannot include and are not intended to include, every possible activity and task performed by every specific employee.
Salary : $15
