General Education Paraprofessional - Pleasant Acres Elementary

Teaching Assistant (General Education) - Pleasant Acres Elementary 

Applicants must hold a active Illinois Paraprofessional License

Link to information on how to obtain your paraprofessional license.

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Why choose RCS? Here are three reasons, just to get started...

• Our Students. Once you meet them, you will love them!
• Small Classes. We pride ourselves on our very small class sizes (15-20 per class).
• Professional Support. Our schools have Instructional Coaches, Tech Integration Specialists, Reading and Math Specialists, Counselors and Social Workers all to support you and your students.

Minimum Starting Salary:  0 yrs of experience with No Degree $16.55/hr

                                          0 yrs of experience with Associates Degree - $17.05/hr

                                          0 yrs of expderience with Bachelors Degree - $17.58/hr

Maximum Starting Salary: 30 yrs of experience wit No Degree - $26.59/hr

                                         30yrs of experience with Associates Degree - $27.09/hr

                                         30 yrs of expderience with Bachelors Degree - $27.67/hr

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Job Summary:
To assist the teacher in achieving teaching objectives by working with individual students, small groups, or whole classrooms to help students achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole. To provide a well-­-organized, smoothly functioning class environment in which students can take full advantage of the instructional program and available resource materials.

General Qualifications:
·      Must have valid active Illiniois Paraprofessional License.

·      Possess strong communication skills (written and oral).

ESSENTIAL JOB SKILLS
Staff member will effectively perform the following duties in a timely manner:

·      Administer, score, and record such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.

·      Work with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.

·      Assist the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based  on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.

·      Help students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher.

·      Guide independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.

·      Assist with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.

·      Assist with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and story telling.

·      Read to students, listen to students read, and participate in other forms of oral communication with students.

·      Assist students in the library or media center.

·      Check notebooks, correct papers, and supervise testing and make-­-up work as  assigned by the teacher.

·      Help students with their clothing.

·      Assist with lunch, snack and clean-­-up routines.

·      Assist with wash-­-up and toilet routines.

·      Alert the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.

·      Serve as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.

·      Maintain the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information  about  students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.

·      Participate in inservice training programs as assigned.

·      Other responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.

Mental Demands:
·      Ability to communicate effectively with parents, students, teachers, administration and community members.

·      Ability to maintain emotional control under stress.

·      Ability to use e-­-mail and office equipment effectively.

·      Ability to work with students individually or in group settings.

Working Conditions:
·      Indoor classrooms/School exposure to: student noise, lawn mowing, music, odors of food, mowed grass and possible communicable diseases.

·      Outdoor schoolyard and grounds, field trips: exposure to temperatures (hot, warm, cool & cold) and exposure to mowed grass.

·      Regular work attendance.