Elizabethton City Schools

Elizabethton City Schools (System-wide) - Full/Part-time Teacher Assistants or Special Education assistantsPLEASE READ CAREFULLY:THIS POSTING IS ALWAYS OPEN. THERE MAY, OR MAY NOT, BE A CURRENT OPENING. AS OPENINGS OCCUR, WE WILL PULL APPLICATIONS FROM THIS POSTING FOR INTERVIEWS.Elizabethton City Schools (System-wide) - Full/Part-time Teacher Assistants or Special Education assistants.QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Not less than a high school education or general equivalencyDiploma2. At least one (1) year of experience so that with appropriatetraining, service may be provided in the specific role for whichemployed; and3. Meets necessary health and physical requirements and befingerprinted4. Meets the standard of highly qualified through passing the ParaProexamination or the equivalent of two years of college.JOB GOAL: To provide assistance to teachers, secretaries, and clericalpersonnel when neededESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:1. Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacherrecommends for individual students;2. Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes;3. Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction;4. Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods andfield trips;5. Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and makeup work as assigned bythe teacher;6. Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of materialsor skills;7. Assumes responsibility for knowing and following the safety rues and proper proceduresassociated with the responsibilities of the job;8. Checks and records attendance;9. Arranges bulletin boards;10. Types and duplicates tests, worksheets, and supplementary materials;11. Assists in supervising the children in lunchroom, playground, and bus loading;12. Assists the teacher in assimilating materials for class displays;13. Attends to the personal needs of the handicapped student;14. Helps students to walk, board buses, put on prosthetic appliances, eat, dress, and performother physical activities as their needs arise;15. Assists with student management;16. Assumes responsibility for knowing and following the safety rules and proper proceduresassociated with the responsibilities of the job;17. Tutors students;18. Rides the bus; and19. Performs other duties as assigned.PHYSICAL DEMANDSThis job requires lifting of objects that exceed 50 lbs., or the average weight of a child, if assigned toelementary grades, with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 25 lbs. or more. Otherphysical demands that may be required are as follows: pushing and/or pulling; climbing; stooping,kneeling and/or crawling; reaching; talking; hearing; seeing.VOCATIONAL PREPARATIONThe required vocational preparation may come from any of the following: vocational education;apprentice training; on-the-job training; or essential experience in other jobs.TEMPERAMENT (PERSONAL TRAITS)1. Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of adifferent nature without loss of efficiency or composure.2. Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory orjudgmental criteria.3. Adaptability to dealing with students.4. Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory orjudgmental criteria.CAPACITY AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTSSpecific capacities and abilities may be required of an individual in order to learn or perform adequately atask or job duty.1. Intelligence: The ability to understand instructions and underlying principles. Abilityto reason and make judgments.2. Verbal: Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them.3. Manual Dexterity: Ability to move the hands easily and skillfully.4. Form Perception: To make visual comparisons and discriminations and perceiveslight differences in shapes and shadings of figures.5. Color Discrimination: Ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences incolors or shades or other values of the same color.WORK CONDITIONSNormal working environment.GENERAL REQUIREMENTSThe above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed bypeople assigned to this position. They are not intended to be a complete list of responsibilities, duties andskills required of personnel so assigned.This is not intended to be a complete job description.