Job Details

Building Aide at Skelly Elementary

El Dorado USD 490 www.usd490.org

Full-Time Position: Please apply at www.applitrack.com/eldorado/onlineapp.

Assist staff in the building with duties such as answering the phone, grading papers, helping in classrooms, putting up bulletin boards, copying, etc.

Purpose: To help the teacher achieve teaching objectives by working with individual students or small groups, making every effort to help them accomplish 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.

Responsible to: Assigned Teacher(s)/Building Principal

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Demonstrates aptitude or competence for assigned responsibilities.

2. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the district may find appropriate and acceptable.

3. Demonstrates literacy in reading, writing, and following directions/instructions.

4. Health and Inoculation Certificate on file.

Essential Functions:

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 students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the 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 up to date.

9. Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and story telling.

10. Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.

11. Assists in the library or media center.

12. Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and make-up work as assigned by the teacher.

13. Helps students with their clothing.

14. Assists with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines when assigned.

15. Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.

16. Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.

17. Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.

18. Participates in inservice training programs as assigned.

19. Performs such other duties as assigned.

Physical Requirements/Environmental Conditions:

1. Requires prolonged sitting or standing, and use of equipment including repetitive motions and computer eye fatigue.

2. Ability to handle a fast-paced, intense work environment.

3. Must occasionally work in noisy and crowded environments, with numerous interruptions. EOE

Benefits Information

Health, life, disability insurance. Section 125 Plan. $117 a year toward YMCA membership.

Salary Information

Commensurate with background and experience

Employer Information

Unified School District 490, El Dorado Public Schools, serves students and families throughout 128 square miles in the city of El Dorado and the surrounding rural area of Butler County with a comprehensive educational program including vocal music, band, orchestra, fine arts, physical education, art, foreign language, and technology. The district has been recognized nationally for excellence in technology and takes pride in providing tools that support equity for educational access.

Students attend one of three elementary schools, a middle school serving grades 6-8, and El Dorado High School, a 4A school serving students in grades 9-12. Pre-K students are served through a State Four-Year Old Preschool grant and Early Childhood Special Education. The district has provided free all-day kindergarten for many years. The high school provides alternative and virtual programs for students who experience success in non-traditional settings or for those who need to recover credits in order to stay on track for graduation at an off-site campus located in the District Performing Arts Center. A drop-out recovery program for adults is provided through partnership with ORION Service Center. In addition, the district is a member of the Butler County Special Education Cooperative, serving students in all nine Butler County school districts. A free district shuttle bus system ensures the safety of students required to cross two highways intersecting the city and is also supplemented by an activity route shuttle to better support student engagement in after-school extracurricular activities. A full-range of summer programs is provided including driver`s education, exploratory summer camp for grades K-5, course completion and credit recovery. Each program is supported by free transportation and access to other community support services such as the YMCA and City Recreation programs.

The Board of Education has developed a comprehensive strategic plan with goals in Student Achievement, Staff Retention & Recruitment, School Climate, Communication, and Infrastructure. As a result of this planning over the course of three strategic cycles, three new facilities were opened in the fall of 2018 finalizing a goal to improve every educational facility in the district to better meet student learning needs. The capstone project, renovation of the Historic 1937 El Dorado High School/Middle School, celebrates a century of public education and a district area of excellence, the performing arts.

Community support enhances district services through a number of initiatives:

* Adopt-a-Class Mentoring Program, matching local businesses with graduating classes

* Dolly Parton Imagination Library, providing a free book each month to preschoolers

* I Can Read, one-on-one reading volunteers for second grade students

* Kiwanis Health & Rotary ACT, Dictionary, Playground Map, and Social Skills Grants

* Staff Wellness Partnership with local hospital, YMCA, and a private donor

* Partners In Education, a foundation supporting special projects and scholarships

* The El Dorado Sports Foundation, supporting school athletic needs

* Communities in Schools, wrap-around social services for at-risk middle school students

* Jobs for America`s Graduates (JAG), working to increase graduation rates through engagement in vocational and service activities

* YMCA SPLASH and Middle School After School providing second grade water safety and after school wellness

* District fitness trail located at El Dorado Middle School