Classroom Aide

Job Summary:

Incumbent provides support to primary classroom staff by rotating within the Center to allow teaching team members to take breaks while still maintaining the appropriate staff to student ratio.

Major Responsibilities/Activities:

• Rotate between classrooms within the Center, providing breaks for primary classroom staff 
• Provide support to classroom teaching staff to maintain required ratio, in the absence of a regular Substitute Teacher Assistant
• Assist teaching staff  with set up and clean up related to meal services
• Wash,dry and fold clothes and linens for classrooms
• Perform other duties assigned.

Essential Mental Functions:

• Ability to communicate effectively with parents, children and staff.

Essential Physical Functions:

Incumbent is regularly required to walk, sit, use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk and hear.  Occasionally required to stand, climb, balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.

Regularly lift and/or move up to ten (10) pounds and frequently lift and/or move up to twenty five (25) pounds.  Specific vision abilities required including close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.