What are the responsibilities and job description for the Instructional Assistant position at York School District 1?
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 on an 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 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 teacher.
· Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, field trips, and at all other
times.
· Assists student with bathroom needs and provides
assistance with mobility in wheelchair.
· 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.
· 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 a source of information and help to 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.