INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT/BUS DRIVER
On-siteMocksville, North Carolina, United States
Job Summary
Assist teachers with executing instruction, evaluating effectiveness, and providing small group or one-on-one academic support. Monitor student safety, social-emotional well-being, and behavior while maintaining discipline and de-escalating crises. Oversee students during non-classroom time, including transitions and lunch, and aid with daily living skills such as meals and toileting. Maintain documentation, prepare instructional materials, and drive a school bus as needed while adhering to confidentiality guidelines. Work 5.75 hours daily (up to 8 hours on regular routes) for 10 months under general supervision.
Required Qualifications
- High School diploma
- Associate's degree (equivalent hours or higher degree)
- Demonstration of being highly qualified by completing a local training program and meeting assessment requirements in reading, writing, and math
- Commercial Driver's License
- Ability to use a variety of equipment, classroom tools, and technology, including those for children with special needs
- Ability to exert a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects
- Ability to observe, compare, and contrast various people, data, or items
- Ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information
- Ability to read and prepare a variety of instructional materials, correspondence, reports, handbooks, forms, lists, etc.
- Ability to rationalize and solve problems with a variety of variables, aligned with policies, procedures, and professional expectations
- Ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions
- Ability to communicate effectively and efficiently in standard English
- Ability to use mathematical operations and apply mathematical skills to solve work-related problems
- Ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately
- Ability to conceptualize visual representations, size, shape, and color
- Ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions
- Ability to be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with persons acting under stress
- Ability to talk and hear
- Ability to communicate via telephone
- General knowledge of activities performed by teachers
- General knowledge of daily routines of the classroom
- General knowledge of student and staff handbook rules
- General knowledge of procedures to follow in the event of an emergency
- General knowledge of the principles of organization and administration
- Some knowledge of the curriculum for the grade levels
- Ability to constantly monitor the safety and well-being of students
- Ability to motivate students
- Ability to maintain a clean and orderly environment
- Ability to perform general clerical duties
- Ability to maintain order and discipline in a classroom
- Ability to operate common classroom technology and office equipment
- Ability to maintain basic files and records
- Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitated by work assignments
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