Require Assistant Teacher Title Funded in Mississippi

Job title: Assistant Teacher Title Funded
Company: Teach Mississippi
Job description: Job Purpose: To provide assistance in the instruction of basic skills and to assure each student the opportunity to take advantage of all available resources in the classroom. Duties and Responsibilities:

Direct any activity that will free the supervising teacher for instruction

Meet and instruct assigned classes at the assigned school and at times designated by teacher and principal

Participate in daily and long-range lesson and classroom activity planning

Guide small groups of students in independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work to reinforce material initially introduced by the supervising teacher

Guide children in working and playing harmoniously with other children

Keep desks, books, papers, materials, and supplies in order and use educational media

Alert the teacher to special needs of individual children

Provide assistance to and escort children as necessary

Help maintain individual records for each child

Foster good eating habits and table manners in children

Assist teacher in maintaining neat work and study areas

Check notebooks, correct papers, and help supervise makeup work and testing as assigned by the supervising teacher, the assistant teacher will not assign grades or confer with parents concerning grades

Assist with the supervision of children during regular play periods

Collect and display suitable material for educational displays

Participate in staff development to be equipped with the skills required to assist teachers in carrying out district initiatives

Marintain and accept responsibility for any district owned fixed asset items assigned to employee and ensure appropriate use by following district policies for acceptable use

Undergo periodic evaluations according to state and board policy procedures

Maintain confidentiality

Regular, dependable, punctual, in person attendance is an essential function of this position

Perform such other and not specifically enumerated duties as may be requested by the Board of Education, superintendent, administrator, director, or established by district policy

Qualifications:

Education level: Associates degree or higher from an accredited college. Minimum of 48 hours of college credit from an accredited college or pass a Work Keys test as determined by the Mississippi Department of Education.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands for fine manipulation, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms using equipment such as a keyboard and video display panel. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, reach, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and move up to 35 pounds and occasionally up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The work environment is not a standard office setting; but rather encompasses the entire active school campus both inside and outside the facilities. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate and occasionally high.

Note: This is not necessarily an all-inclusive or exhaustive list of responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, efforts, functions or working conditions associated with the job. The job description is not a contract of employment or a promise or guarantee of any specific terms or conditions of employment. The school district may add to, modify, or delete any aspect of this job (or the position itself) at any time as it deems advisable. Terms of Employment: Salary, days and work year as established by the Lamar County School District

Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with the provisions of the Mississippi Department of Education and the Lamar County School Board policy on Evaluation of Employees.

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Location: Mississippi

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