Bilingual Teaching Assistant — English/Spanish Class Support

Young World Physical Education; Rantoul (IL); On-site; USD 26,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Rantoul City School District in Illinois is seeking a Bilingual Teaching Assistant for Eastlawn Elementary. The role supports instruction by translating, assisting with individual and small-group work, and reinforcing lesson material for English and Spanish speakers.

Applicants must hold an active Illinois Paraprofessional License. Starting salaries range from $18.57 to $20.63 per hour for lower experience, up to $28.15–$30.24 with higher education and experience; posted until filled with

Qualifications

• Must have 60 hours college course credits or have passed a State approved test granting Para- professional certification.
• Possess strong communication skills (written and oral).
• Proficiency in native language of bilingual and English, including able to write and speak in both languages of need, fluently and grammatically correct.
• Live in or be familiar with the surrounding community.

Responsibilities

• Translate between the native language of bilingual and English in classroom, meeting, or phone call situations with students, parents and teachers.
• Translate document from native language of bilingual to English correctly.
• 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.

Skills

Communication skills

Bilingual translation

Written and oral fluency

Community familiarity

Education

60 college credits or para-pro cert

Job description

Rantoul City School District in Illinois is seeking a Bilingual Teaching Assistant for Eastlawn Elementary. The role supports instruction by translating, assisting with individual and small-group work, and reinforcing lesson material for English and Spanish speakers.

Applicants must hold an active Illinois Paraprofessional License. Starting salaries range from $18.57 to $20.63 per hour for lower experience, up to $28.15–$30.24 with higher education and experience; posted until filled with