Bilingual Teaching Assistant

Rantoul City Schools District 137

Job Description

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).

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  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.

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  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.

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