Classroom Support Specialist: Elevate Grades 1-5

Loudoun County Public Schools -VA; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Loudoun County Public Schools in Sterling, VA, seeks a Teacher Assistant for Grades 1-5 at Sully Elementary School. The role supports the teacher with instructional duties, materials, and behavior management under supervision.

The position involves preparing materials, assisting with language and math activities, recording attendance, and helping with field trips. A high school diploma and experience with children are required.

Qualifications

• Graduation from high school and experience as a teacher aide or working with children.
• Ability to work under supervision and follow lesson plans.
• Ability to record data and describe student progress and difficulties.
• Good human relations and communications skills; patience and flexibility.

Responsibilities

• Provides individual and group instruction on activities as instructed; demonstrates and assists students with skill development such as ABC sequencing, visual discrimination, word rhyming, and letter-number matching; monitors art project programs including preparing the materials and cleaning up.
• Implements behavior modification plans and provides discipline in the absence of the teacher; supervises learning centers and participates in classroom activities; monitors students during recess and assists them during the lunch period.
• Prepares the classroom and helps settle the students by organizing the room and materials, assisting students off the bus, recording attendance, and taking the snack count; sets up and operates audio-visual equipment such as opaque, movie, and filmstrip projectors and video cameras.
• Practices individual speech sounds, vocabulary, and syntax objectives with students as directed by the speech therapist; reads to students and asks questions to stimulate language development; presents language activities involving expressive and receptive areas of development.
• Performs clerical tasks such as filing and photocopying; makes arrangements for field trips.
• Performs related work as required.

Skills

Good human relations and comms skills

Patience

Flexibility

Education

High school diploma

Job description

Loudoun County Public Schools in Sterling, VA, seeks a Teacher Assistant for Grades 1-5 at Sully Elementary School. The role supports the teacher with instructional duties, materials, and behavior management under supervision.

The position involves preparing materials, assisting with language and math activities, recording attendance, and helping with field trips. A high school diploma and experience with children are required.