JOB TITLE:Special Education PreK Educational Assistant at Parkview Elementary

SUMMARY OF POSITION/PURPOSE:
To assist teachers in achieving their objectives by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole.

SUPERVISOR:
Classroom Teacher and/or School Principal

SUPERVISES:
No other staff

EDUCATION REQUIRED/PREFERRED:
Required:  High School Diploma or Equivalent. 

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED/PREFERRED:
Preferred:  At least two years experience in position

CERTIFICATE/LICENSE:
Current New Mexico Public Education Department Level 3 Educational Assistant License.  Must have an AA in Early Childhood Development or be willing to earnin 6 credit hours per academic year towards AA in Early Childhood Development. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  1.  Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
    2.  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.
    3.  Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
    4.  Helps student master equipment or instructional materials assigned by their teacher.
    5.  Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction.
    6.  Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
    7.  Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
    8.  Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays attractive and up to date.
    9.  Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and storytelling.
    10.  Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
    11.  Assists students in the library or media center.
    12.  Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and make up work, as assigned by the teacher.
    13.  Checks and records student attendance.
    14.  Helps students with their clothing.
    15.  Assists with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines.
    16.  Assists with wash-up and toilet routines.
    17.  Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
    18.  Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
    19.  Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.

   20. Must adhere to all NM Educational guidelines and training guidelines. 

 

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES REQUIRED/PREFERRED:

 

 WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL EFFORT:
Employee's work:

Standing	60%	Inside	95%
Walking	35%	Outside	5%
Sitting	5%
Total	100%		100%

Requirements While Performing Job:

Physical Activity	Daily:  Yes/No	Description
Twist:  Waist	Yes
Wrist	Yes
Neck/Shoulder	Yes
Stoop, bend	Yes
Squat, kneel or crawl	Yes
Repetitive motions of hands or wrists	Yes
Run	No
Climb ladders, stairs, or equipment	No
Ride equipment	No
Walk on uneven terrain	No
Fine finger dexterity	Yes
Manual dexterity	Yes
Reaching above shoulders	Yes
Reaching at shoulder height	Yes
Reaching below shoulders	Yes
Other

 

 

Requirements for pushing, lifting, pulling, or carrying obstacles of weight

No. of lbs. from the floor	Push	Pull	Lift	Carry	Frequency:  Explain if daily/weekly/monthly/once in a while
0-25			X	X	Daily
26-50			X	X	Weekly
51-150			X		Once in a while
Above 150
No. of lbs from chest high
0-25			X	X	Weekly
26-50			X	X	Once in a while
51-150
Above 150
No. of lbs. over head
0-25			X	X	Once in a while
26-50
51-150
Above 150

Must be capable of working under unusual conditions such as:

Chemicals, skin irritants such as soaps, cleaning agents and others	Yes
Cold/heat of outside work
Confined spaces such as crawl spaces and other small areas
Contact with the public	Yes
Dampness
Electrical
Explosives, flammables, gas, paint thinners
High work spaces
Machine noise	Yes
Radiation
Sun	Yes
Vibration
Protective equipment required

 

 

Vision Demand and Capabilities                                             Hearing Demands and Capabilities

 

Normal night vision
Normal depth perception	X
Normal depth vision	X
Normal color vision	X
Red/Green/Amber color vision	X
Uncorrected Vision
Corrected Vision	X

Hearing essentially normal	X
Some high tone loss
Significant high tone loss
Low tone loss
Other requirements:  Corrected hearing	X

PRIMARY JOB LOCATION:
Assigned school site

 

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT (LENGTH OF CONTRACT):
School year as scheduled on school calendar

 

EVALUATION PERFORMED BY:
Supervising Teacher/Principal

 

Socorro Consolidated Schools provides all training required by OSHA to ensure employee safety.

 

 

 ** IF CHOSEN APPLICANT WILL NEED TO RE-APPLY FOR PERMANENT POSITION AT THE END OF THE 2024-2025 ACADEMIC YEAR