Teacher Assistant-Student Success Coordinator/Bus Driver

Position: Teacher Assistant - Student Success Coordinator Reports to:Principal Terms of Employment:10 months Pay Grade: 56 FLSA Status:Non-exempt Nature of Work The Student Success Coordinator will work closely with the principal, counselor, teachers, and other staff members to coordinate and manage projects related to student success to increase student work completion and course passing rates. An employee in this position performs a wide variety of tasks to support the instructional program of Craven Early College High School. The work is directed by specific instructions, precedents and established policy. Problems are solved through the exercise of judgment in selecting the best course of action to be taken. Errors are expected to be recognized promptly by the supervisor and corrected with little negative consequence. The Student Success Coordinator is self-directed and can successfully complete assigned tasks under limited supervision. Education and Experience - Must have a minimum of 48 semester hours of general college credit, excluding cosmetology, nursing, and religion - Bachelors Degree (preferred) Certification and Licensure Requirements (if applicable): Essential Functions/Typical Tasks - Provides academic assistance - Provides group and individualized instruction for Senior Advisory - Demonstrates various instructional activities - Monitors work assigned by teachers - Checks and corrects students' work while in progress - Keeps students on task in Seminar - Praises and reinforces achievement of students - Assists in instructional preparation/support - Serves as substitute teacher - Serves on the Front Office Team - greets families in-person and over the phone - Arranges classroom furnishings and equipment - Prepares visual aids - Duplicates materials - Reorganizes materials at the end of day - Serves as proctor during testing - Scores students' papers as instructed by teacher - Distributes and collects instructional materials - Reports and Records - Enters data in health record - Records student behavior - Files data according to regulatory requirements - Monitors student behavior - Supervises students in the classroom and other locations. - Creates and distributes awards for positive behavior - Promotes student self-esteem. - Teaches citizenship, social skills and respect for others - Reconciles minor student conflicts - Participates in development of discipline policy - Disciplines misbehavior through approved methods. - Reports discipline problems to teacher or principal. - Reports to supervisor significant change or lack of change in student behavior. - Attends and participates in appropriate staff development activities. - Lifts, crawls, and bends to meet the total needs of student. - Assists in providing modifications for students with disabilities as required by the IEP. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities - Working knowledge of effective methods of dealing with children. - Working knowledge of the core subjects at the grade level to which employment assignment is made. - Some knowledge of the school organization and its community. - Some knowledge of expected behavior of children, that is, basic characteristics of ages and stages. - Skills necessary to operate classroom technology, audiovisual equipment and common office machines. - Skills to make learning aids which will strengthen lesson plans. - Ability to comprehend the purpose of teacher designed strategies as a fulfillment of the instructional objective. - Ability to discern significant student behavior and refer this to the supervisor. - Ability to impart information at the child's level of comprehension. - Ability to apply impartially and consistently proper methods of recognition, reward, and punishment. - Ability to solve independently most minor problems. - Abili y to follow minimally detailed written and oral instructions without constant supervision. - Ability to record and store data accurately. - Ability to maintain confidentiality of student information - Demonstrates and supports the Core Values. - Demonstrates excellent oral and written communication skills. - Complies with federal and state law. As well as local policy and regulation. - Assists in ensuring that the facility is a safe, clean, and inviting learning and working environment. - Supports a systems approach to align school accreditation with the school improvement process and federal guidelines. - Participates in appropriate workplace staff development. - Demonstrates professional and ethical behavior. - Demonstrates passion, commitment, and loyalty to the values, priorities, and goals of the Craven County School System. - Demonstrates strong interpersonal communication and active listening when working with building level administrators, teacher, students, staff, patents, central services personnel and others. Assists in managing reporting of student achievement, classroom performance and growth to the teacher and others. - Ensures that materials, reports, and other information forwarded to the supervisor and others are carefully prepared, concise, accurate, and received in a timely manner. - Assigns in managing reporting of student achievement, classroom performance and growth to the teachers and others. Physical Requirements The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee is regularly required to use hands to fingers, handle, feel or operate objects, tools or controls and reach with hands and arms. The employee must be able to perform medium work exerting in excess of 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to lift objects. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Special Requirements Must obtain a NC commercial drivers license (CDL) or bus license to drive for special Craven Early College High School field trips Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board and local policy on evaluation of personnel.