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Adel DeSoto Minburn Community School District Preschool Teacher Associate in Adel, Iowa
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ADM is seeking a highly motivated, quality applicant to work as 1:1 preschool associate at Adel Elementary, a preschool through 1^st^grade building. The staff at Adel Elementary is incredibly caring and work in a collaborative manner. This vacancy is from 8:30am-12:00pm Monday-Thursday starting in August.
Job Summary: The associate role is one to assist the teacher in supporting specific learning goals by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve appropriate skill levels.
Essential Functions:
- Work with individual students or in small groups to help achieve skills and understanding of class material
- Work with a wide range of various needs, including academic, behavior and social Examples:
- Reads to students, listens to students read and participates in other forms of oral communication with the students
- Guides each student toward making appropriate choices and accepting responsibility for their own behavior
- Assisting the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on an understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities
- Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information regarding an individual student
- Supervises students outside during arrival, recess, dismissal and may provide lunchroom supervision
A successful candidate will:
- Be student-focused, team-oriented and have a strong desire to actively engage with students
- Holds a humble philosophy that doing whatever it takes to help students be successful is required
- Have effective time management skills and organizational skills
- Enjoys kids, working with others and making a positive difference in the lives of children
- Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information regarding students as is expected of fully licensed teachers
Qualifications:
- High school diploma.
- Demonstrated aptitude for the work to be performed.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Ability to work well with staff, parents, and students