MIDDLE SCHOOL INSTRUCTIONAL AIDE

JOB DESCRIPTION

Who We Are:

The Dayton Early College Academy (DECA) is an award-winning, high performing network of charter schools located in Dayton, Ohio. Serving grades K-12, DECA’s three campuses are singularly focused on helping children from the city of Dayton gain the skills they need to be successful in college and beyond. 

Mission:

We prepare future college graduates today to become the leaders of our community tomorrow.

Core Values:

1. Put students first;
2. Demand success;
3. Invest deeply in relationships;
4. Do what’s right;
5. Prove education changes lives;
6. Find joy.

Our Students and Results:

We serve students in grades K-12 in the Dayton Public School area; academic proficiency is not considered during the admissions process. Admission is first come, first served. 

• 94% of our students are African-American and 72% are economically disadvantaged;
• Over 80% of our students will be first in their family to go to college;
• DECA is committed to providing a rigorous and engaging academic curriculum;
• Our campuses foster an awareness of social justice issues; 
• Strong community partnerships are at the core of our success;
• DECA alumni graduate from college at a rate nearly 5 times the national average for first generation college students and on par with their suburban counterparts.

Successful Applicants:

• Are developing and practicing cultural competence in their teaching, teamwork, and leadership;
• Build relationships with students, families, colleagues, and community;
• Provide, seek, and act on feedback;
• Live our Core Values.

Job Summary: The Instructional Aide/Paraprofessional at DECA Middle provides intervention that offers intensive instruction to help struggling students develop proficient systems of strategic actions for learning. The Instructional Aide/Paraprofessional reports to the Campus Principal.

Qualifications:

• Valid Educational Aide license;
• Sound classroom management skills;
• Technology skills including the ability to use computers for record keeping, report writing, and assisting students;
• Ability to improvise and problem solve;
• An affinity for supporting students as individual learners;
• Dedicated to the mission of assuring student learning and achievement;
• Effective in an interdisciplinary, teamed environment
• Ability to take the initiative, provide effective communication, define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw conclusions
• Possess effective interpersonal skills with children and adults.

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree

Duties/Essential Functions:

• Serve as positive role model for students;
• Under Teacher supervision, assess student academic, social, and personal strengths and needs;
• Develop meaningful, appropriate relationships with each student and their parent/guardian;
• Facilitate in-depth student learning in subject areas served by Title 1;
• Implement, by instruction and action, DECA’s mission;
• Know and understand DECA’s goals and how they align to content area standards as defined by the Ohio Department of Education;
• Celebrate student accomplishments;
• Hold students accountable for their academic progress;
• In collaboration with the teacher, advocate on behalf of students and families;
• In collaboration with the teacher, forecast educational needs of each student;
• Assist in implementing a plan of instruction that is both challenging and that meets the individual needs, interests, and abilities of each advisee;
• Assist the teacher in reporting each student's progress, both educationally and socially, through at minimum quarterly reports and phone calls to parents;
• Attend faculty meetings and other staff development and planning sessions as determined by the principal and school staff;
• Maintain accurate, complete, and factual records on each student as required by school law; 
• In collaboration with the classroom teacher, employ a variety of educational techniques in pursuit of educational goals and establish clear objectives for each student;
• Work with school team on an academic and social intervention strategies for student;
• Aware and supportive of school policies and practices for keeping students safe during a fire, tornado or active shooter situation;
• Provide supplemental and educational activities in order to support student growth;
• Periodically transport students complying with traffic ordinances and school transportation policy; 
• Ensure that each student employs standard materials prescribed by the Title I program;
• Perform other duties as assigned by the principal.

Terms of Employment:

• 178 days
• Salary to be determined based on experience and education level; 
• All staff members are issued one-year contracts.

Working Environment:

Workplace locations include:

• School, activity center, outdoor play areas;
• Retreat/field sites; and
• Other environments as deemed necessary/appropriate.

Physical demands:

• While performing the duties of his/her job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, talk, and/or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required for this position include close vision, distance vision, and depth perception.

Additional Working Conditions:

• The noise level in this work environment is quiet to loud depending on the activity and location.
• Working conditions for this job include (1) possible exposure to blood, bodily fluids, and tissue; and (2) occasional operation of a motor vehicle to transport students.
• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.

The information in this job description is in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (A.D.A) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for the position. Additional duties performed by individuals currently holding the position and additional duties may be assigned.

This position is exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Employee signature below constitutes employee’s understanding of the requirements, essential functions and duties of the position.