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Title: Math Intervention Assistant Reports To: School Principal
Takes Direction From: Classroom Teacher and School Principal
Schedule/Calendar: 7 hrs./day 35 hrs/week 183 days/year
Summary: The Mathematics Assistant will aid the classroom teacher in executing the students educational program.
Essential Functions:
- Discusses and reviews math topics with students in small groups
- Assists individual students with questions during class periods and teacher instruction
- Reviews math material with individual students who were absent
- Relocates students with IEPs to separate testing rooms and assists with individual needs as required
- Prints, copies, scans, and emails materials to lead teacher for use in classroom
- Distributes calculators to various rooms for testing
- Labels calculators with room number, calculator number, and teacher name
- Assists students with homework, review for quizzes and tests, and general math questions in all math classes
- Relocates students to the computer lab to utilize the math computer program during occasional wrap-around class periods
- Escorts students to principal’s, counselor’s, or behavioral coach’s office when necessary
- Assists substitute teachers and students when lead teacher is absent from class
- Creates worksheet answer keys to assist students with correctness of their work
- Counts and distributes printed copies of worksheets, study guides, and guided notes to math teachers for their classrooms
- Assists lead teacher with quiz and worksheet corrections
- Records student homework completion for teacher gradebook
- Records daily assignments, homework collected/checked, new material (including notes), and homework due on paper for absent students to review upon their return
- Provides feedback to lead teacher on student’s understanding of class lessons
- Follows instructions of IEPs when necessary
- Recognizes a student’s misunderstanding of material by witnessing errors in written work or by casual conversation with them and then explains the information so they understand
- Discusses student needs and lesson plans with teachers in advance to prepare for upcoming classes and to be proactive in helping the lesson function smoothly and efficiently
- May help the class as a whole
- Pulls out groups of students to work with
Education and/or Certification Required:
- Associate's degree or 2 years higher education
- Teaching experience preferred
Experience Needed:
- High School Diploma
- Teaching certification experience preferred
Requisite Skills:
- Ability to monitor students
- Excellent communication skills
- Superior math skills
- Ability to teach children
- Ability to support a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion
ADA Compliance:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions of this position.
Physical Requirements: (Choose one of the following.)
? Sedentary ? Light work ? Medium work
? Heavy work ? Very heavy work
ADA Compliance:
Physical Requirements: Choose one of the following. Most desk jobs are sedentary or light:
Sedentary: involves sitting most of the time. Incumbent should be able to exert up to 10 lbs of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount
of force constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or move objects.
Light work: If the use of arm and/or leg control requires exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the individual sits most of
the time, the job is rated for light work. The incumbent should be able to exert up to 20 lbs of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 lbs of force
frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.
Medium work: The incumbent should be able to exert up to 50 lbs of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 lbs of force frequently, and/or up to
10 lbs of force constantly to move objects.
Heavy work: The incumbent should be able to exert up to 100 lbs of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 lbs of force frequently, and/or up to 20
lbs of force constantly to move objects.
Very heavy work: The incumbent should be able to exert in excess of 100 lbs of force occasionally, and in excess of 50 lbs of force frequently,
and in excess of 20 lbs of force constantly to move objects.
