Associate Teacher Aide

Associate, Special Education

Positions vary from 6 to 6.75 hours per day, 5 days per week. The hourly rate is $18.10 per hour, and some positions include an additional $1 per hour for personal hygiene duties. Positions 6.5 hours per day or more qualify for health and dental insurance. A paraprofessional license from the Illinois State Board of Education is required for this position. For more information please contact the Human Resources Department.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

• Education and/or Experience: Must meet state/federal guidelines for School District paraprofessionals employed as teacher aide/associate.
• Interpersonal Skills: Ability to work collaboratively and cooperatively with other staff and to promote positive team work environment.
• Language Skills: Ability to read, write, interpret and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, memos and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to effectively present information one-on-one and in small group situations to staff, parents, students and administrators.
• Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to interpret bar graphs.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Occasionally the employee is required to lift/or move a minimum of 50 pounds. The employee must be able to push items which may exceed 50 pounds, such as pushing children on a bike or moving/rearranging furniture. Dependent upon the building assignment, the employee may be required to spend up to 35 minutes of time standing in a swimming pool. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and peripheral vision.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud at a standard acceptable level for this environment.

References must be provided.