Kindergarten Aide - Austinville

Montgomery-Public-Schools; Decatur (AL); On-site; USD 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Decatur City Schools are seeking an instructional assistant to support classroom teachers in delivering lessons and reinforcing learning concepts in both elementary and secondary settings.

The role includes coordinating instructional efforts with teachers, preparing teaching aids, and helping students through individual or small-group instruction. Strong reading, writing, and presentation skills are expected.

Qualifications

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations.

Responsibilities

• Discusss assigned teaching area with classroom teacher to coordinate instructional efforts.
• Plans, prepares, and develops teaching aids such as bibliographies, charts and graphs.
• Assists in presenting subject matter using various methods such as lecture, discussion, and role playing.
• Administers and grades examinations.
• Assists students, individually or in groups, with lesson assignments to reinforce learning concepts.

Skills

Reading comprehension

Writing ability

Oral presentation

Mathematical skills

Instructional support

Education

Associates degree

48 college credits

Job description

SUMMARY:

• Performs any combination of the following instructional tasks in the classroom to assist teaching staff of elementary or secondary school by performing the following duties:

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Discusses assigned teaching area with classroom teacher to coordinate instructional efforts.

• Plans, prepares, and develops various teaching aids such as bibliographies, charts and graphs.

• Assists in presenting subject matter to students, utilizing variety of methods and techniques such as lecture, discussion, and supervised role playing.

• Administers, and grades examinations.

• Assists students, individually or in groups, with lesson assignments to present or reinforce learning concepts.

NON-ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum of two years post-secondary earned credit (48 hours) or associates degree or passing scores on WorkKeys Level 3 assessment.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.

• Ability to write simple correspondence.

• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations.

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.

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.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.

• The employee frequently is required to stand and walk.

• The employee is occasionally required to sit, bend, stoops, squat, crouch, kneel, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee must routinely lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

• The employee must occasionally lift, push, pull and/or move up to 50 pounds.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

• The employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions for short periods of time.

SALARY:

• Salary schedules are found on the main Decatur City Schools website, available here. Please right-click and select Open in New Tab to view our salary schedules.

• Listed below are items that may be necessary to complete your employment process in order to compute your annual salary. It is your responsibility to provide us with this requested information in order to receive your accurate salary.

  • Within the state of Alabama, experience must be verified on Supplement EXP

  • Outside the state of Alabama, we must have a letter (on school district letterhead) or public school district form showing beginning and ending dates stating your years of service and position held while employed

  • Credit is awarded for public school experience only, private, parochial, or similar experience will not be accepted

  • Experience must be full time at least 50%-100% of the academic year

  • Administrative credit will be awarded only for experience in the same position, i.e., principal for principal position as stated in the salary schedule

  • Transfer Sick Leave: If you have sick leave from another state school system or from another state of Alabama agency, you must have a Sick Leave Transfer form sent from your previous employer to our Human Resources department

Equal Opportunity Employer:

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee(s) within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of an employee(s) for this job.

The Decatur City School System does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, disability, sex, religion, national origin, or age in its programs, activities, or employment and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The Title IX Coordinator for Decatur City Schools is responsible for handling inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies. The Title IX Coordinator can be reached by calling the Decatur City Board of Education at [phone].