Kindergarten Learning Support Specialist

ReNEW Schools; Shipshewana (IN); On-site; USD 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

ReNEW Schools in Indiana is seeking a dedicated teacher aide to support classroom teachers and help individual students or small groups reach skill goals. The role involves administering, scoring, and recording assessments as recommended by the teacher, and reinforcing learning under supervision.

The position emphasizes assisting with strategies tailored to each student, guiding independent study, and maintaining high ethical standards and confidentiality.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated aptitude for the work to be performed.
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate.
• Reports To: Teacher and Building Principal
• Job Goal: To assist the teacher achieve teaching objectives by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole.

Responsibilities

• Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
• Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
• Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
• Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and makeup work, as assigned by the teacher.
• Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and storytelling.
• Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
• Participates in in-service training programs as assigned.

Education

High school diploma, GED, or waiver

Job description

ReNEW Schools in Indiana is seeking a dedicated teacher aide to support classroom teachers and help individual students or small groups reach skill goals. The role involves administering, scoring, and recording assessments as recommended by the teacher, and reinforcing learning under supervision.

The position emphasizes assisting with strategies tailored to each student, guiding independent study, and maintaining high ethical standards and confidentiality.