Teaching Assistant Bilingual (English/Spanish) - Eastlawn Elementary
Applicants must hold a active Illinois Paraprofessional License
Link to information on how to obtain your paraprofessional license.
Minimum Starting Salary: 0 yrs of experience with No Degree $18.57/hr
0 yrs of experience with Associates Degree - $19.60/hr
0 yrs of expderience with Bachelors Degree - $20.63/hr
Maximum Starting Salary: 30 yrs of experience wit No Degree - $28.15/hr
30yrs of experience with Associates Degree - $29.19/hr
30 yrs of expderience with Bachelors Degree - $30.24/hr
District and Salary Information
Job Summary:
To assist the teacher in achieving teaching objectives by working with individual students, small groups, or whole classrooms to help students achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole. To provide a well-organized, smoothly functioning class environment in which students can take full advantage of the instructional program and available resource materials.
General 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.
ESSENTIAL JOB SKILLS
Staff member will effectively perform the following duties in a timely manner:
- 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.
Mental Demands:
- Ability to communicate effectively with parents, students, teachers, administration and community members.
- Ability to maintain emotional control under stress.
- Ability to use e-mail and office equipment effectively.
- Ability to work with students individually or in group settings.
Working Conditions:
- Indoor classrooms/School exposure to: student noise, lawn mowing, music, odors of food, mowed grass and possible communicable diseases.
- Outdoor schoolyard and grounds, field trips: exposure to temperatures (hot, warm, cool & cold) and exposure to mowed grass.
- Regular work attendance.