Assistant, Intervention (29 Hrs)

Classroom Support Assistant

Primary Job Functions: To provide support to the classroom and assist the classroom or resource teacher in achieving student learning objectives. Specific duties will include working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve and maintain the skill levels of the class. Will also assist with classroom management and implement student specific behavior plans as appropriate as well as providing for special health care needs.

Salary Lane: ASST - Hourly pay starting at $18.50. FLSA Status: Non-Exempt Assigned Workdays Per Year: 181 days (School Year Days) Job Status: Part-Time (29 hours per week) Schedule: Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 3:30pm Benefits: Part-time positions are eligible for supplemental benefits such as vision, life insurance, disability, etc. Eligible for PERF Retirement. (Not eligible for medical and dental insurance.) Paid Time Off Benefits: Eligible Holiday Pay: Not Eligible

Qualifications: Education: High school diploma or GED required. Skills and Knowledge: Must have ability to relate well and communicate effectively with a variety of individuals including students, staff, parents, and classroom volunteers. Experience: None required. Experience in a classroom setting preferred. Certification: None required.

Essential Functions: Maintains schedule as developed by supervising teacher. Works with individual or small groups of students to reinforce learning of materials or skills initially introduced by the teacher. Guides independent study, enrichment work, and intervention work as set up and assigned by the teacher. Alerts the classroom teacher to any problem or specific information about an individual student. Accompanies students to general education and special area classes and support them in those areas. Utilizes de-escalation techniques when behaviors and emotions are escalated, at the direction of the teacher. Participates in in-service training programs. Assists with lunch, snack, and clean up routines as needed. Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes. Assists with supervision of students during emergency drills. Maintains records and collects data as directed by the teacher. Will provide personal care support for and with students as needed. Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers. Performs other such tasks and assumes such other responsibilities as the principal may assign.

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, and use hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to walk, reach with hands and arms, climb, balance and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance, vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus.

Non-Discrimination Policy: Avon Community School Corporation does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, veteran status, or pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition in admission to its programs, services, or activities, in access to them, in treatment of individuals, or in any aspect of their operations. The Avon Community School Corporation also does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices. This notice is provided as required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Questions, complaints, or requests for additional information regarding these laws may be forwarded to the designated compliance coordinator, Kristin Williams, Director of Human Resources.