Educational Assistant: Classroom Support & Student Growth

Dulce Independent School District; Dulce (NM); On-site; USD 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Dulce Independent School District in Dulce, New Mexico is seeking an Educational Assistant to support classroom teachers and students in achieving learning objectives. You will work with individuals or small groups to reinforce skills originally introduced by the teacher and help with planning and implementation of instructional strategies.

The role requires a Level III Educational Assistant License or progress toward one, basic computer literacy, and a Substitute Licensure through NMPed.

Qualifications

• Must possess a Level III Educational Assistant License or work towards acquiring one.
• Reasonable degree of computer literacy.
• Must possess a Substitute Licensure through NMPed

Responsibilities

• Be punctual; adhere to rules set by building principal and as outlined by the staff handbook, thirty minutes for lunch.
• Work with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skill initially introduced by the teacher.
• Assist the teacher in planning and implementing special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests and abilities.
• Operate and care for equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher.
• Distribute and collect workbooks, papers and other materials for instruction.
• Guide independent study, Reading mastery groups, Corrective Reading groups, math ability groups, enrichment work, and remedial work set-up as assigned by the teacher.
• Assist with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods and field trips.
• Keep bulletin boards and other classroom learning displays up to date.
• Assist with such large group activities such as drill work, reading aloud and storytelling.
• Read to students, listen to students read, and participate in other forms of oral communication with students.
• Check notebooks, correct papers, and supervise testing and make-up work as assigned by the teacher.
• Monitor and circulate among students during assigned lunch or breakfast duties (find cover for assigned duty as needed for absences).
• Assist with lunch, snack and clean-up routines.
• Assist with wash-up and toilet routines (K-2).
• Alert and provide documentation to the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• Substitute for teacher as necessary or 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 faculty meetings, grade-level meetings, in-services, and other trainings as assigned.
• Other duties as assigned by the teacher, principal, or assistant principal.

Skills

Computer literacy

Education

Level III Educational Assistant License

Substitute Licensure through NMPed

AA Degree

Job description

Dulce Independent School District in Dulce, New Mexico is seeking an Educational Assistant to support classroom teachers and students in achieving learning objectives. You will work with individuals or small groups to reinforce skills originally introduced by the teacher and help with planning and implementation of instructional strategies.

The role requires a Level III Educational Assistant License or progress toward one, basic computer literacy, and a Substitute Licensure through NMPed.