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Summary: Springfield SD 19 is seeking an Educational Assistant for Hamlin Middle School to provide support in behavior management and instructional assistance. The role involves tutoring, supervising students, and assisting teachers in creating a conducive learning environment.

Responsibilities:
- Under direct supervision of a licensed teacher, provides supplemental practice for various learning experiences, including drills and activities using effective strategies to reinforce and or modify skills
- Collect, sort and correct lessons and tests; record grades in ledger; redistribute as necessary; file classroom materials
- May assist in Health Room by providing first aide
- Provides direct assistance to teacher/bus/van driver in relation to student management and school/bus/van safety
- May assist student(s) in a 1:1 setting who need additional academic, social/emotional, or medically fragile supports
- Completes required District logs, forms, and paperwork as required
- Provides direct assistance to student’s behavioral, academic and or personal needs
- Maintains student discipline in the absence of the teacher/bus/van driver
- Assists students with behavior management, including de-escalation, conflict resolution, and adherence to school/bus/van behavioral expectations
- Assists students with special needs and or adaptive equipment
- Assists students develop positive interpersonal relationships with peers and adults
- Assesses and records student academic and behavior measures
- Provides ongoing training and proactive assistance to students in relation to meeting academic and behavioral expectations
- Provides proactive supervision of students in a variety of settings
- Performs setting up and taking down of materials, supplies and furniture to support the behavioral and academic success of students
- Evaluates student injuries and performs first aid
- Assists in planning and implementing learning experiences for students
- Perform duties associated with general record keeping related to the accounting of funds received
- Attends in-service trainings and staff meetings as directed
- Conduct basic data entry assignments
- May assist with attendance, attendance monitoring, and attendance reporting
- Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications:
- Associates degree or higher (attach diploma); OR
- Completion of two years post-secondary study consisting of 72 credit hours, 48 semester units (attach transcripts); OR
- High school diploma or General Education Diploma (GED) AND
- Meet a rigorous standard of quality, and can demonstrate, through a formal state or local academic assessment or para-professional certificate program, knowledge of, and the ability to assist in instructing, as appropriate, reading/language arts, writing and mathematics or reading readiness, writing readiness and mathematics readiness
- Ability to obtain and hold a valid First Aid/CPR card and pass Safe Schools training modules as assigned

Preferred Qualifications:
- Related experience in an educational setting

Required Skills: First Aid, CPR, Student behavior management, Student de-escalation strategies, Reading instruction, Language arts instruction, Writing instruction, Mathematics instruction, Data entry, Record keeping, Safe Schools training modules, Cooperative working relationships