Job Description

FIRST POSTING

QUALIFICATIONS: Holds appropriate certification in assigned field

RESPONSIBLE TO Principal

EMPLOYMENT TERM: 200 days

SALARY: State Scale

Qualifications:

• High School Graduate or GED.
• Physically fit to perform duties.
• Pass competency test pursuant to 18A-4-8c.
• Pass criminal background check conducted pursuant to Summers County Board of Education Policy IV-G-4.
• Pass drug test conducted pursuant to Summers County Board of Education Policy IV-H-1.
• Successfully complete and be certified in Phase I training in health care procedures and any Phase II procedures that are required to be performed.

Job Responsibilities:

• Assist the teacher in instructional activities as directed.
• Share in the responsibility of protecting students, equipment, materials and facilities.
• Perform bus monitor duties as assigned.
• If assigned as a bus aide, supervise assigned student(s) when getting on, off and riding bus.
• Provide services according to student need as documented on IEPs, 504 plans, SAT plans, or as otherwise assigned.
• Maintain positive work habits.
• Participate in required staff meetings.
• Perform duties efficiently and productively.
• Maintain and/or upgrade skills.
• Perform specialized health care procedures, as needed.
• Perform any and all other job-related duties as assigned by the classroom teacher, principal, appropriate county director, or superintendent.

According to West Virginia Code 18A-4-8 aide classifications are as follows:

Aide I: a person selected and trained for a teacher-aide classification such as monitor aide, clerical aide, classroom aide or general aide

Aide II: a service person referred to in the Aide I classification who has completed a training program approved by the state board, or who holds a high school diploma or has received a general educational development certificate. Only a person classified as an Aide II class title may be employed as an aide in any special education program.

Aide III: a service person referred to in the Aide I classification who holds a high school diploma or a general educational development certificate; and

1. has completed six semester hours of college credit at an institution of higher education; or
2. Is employed as an aide in a special education program and has one year's experience as an aide in special education

Aide IV: a service person referred to in the Aide I classification who holds a high school diploma or a general educational development certificate; and

1. Has completed eighteen hours of State Board-approved college credit at a regionally accredited institution of higher education, or
2. Has completed fifteen hours of State Board-approved college credit at a regionally accredited institution of higher education; and has successfully completed an in-service training program determined by the State Board to be the equivalent of three hours of college credit

Aide V: a service person referred to in the "Aide I" classification who

1. holds a high school diploma or a general educational development certificate
2. and who has completed the requirements and experience to be prescribed by the state board of education.

Aide VI: (Behavioral Support Assistant Teacher)" means a person who works with a student or students who have identified behavior difficulties, holds at least an Aide III classification and has completed the requirements and experience to be prescribed by the state board of education. This is a person who works with a student or students who have identified behavior difficulties, holds at least an Aide III classification and has completed the requirements and experience to be prescribed by the state board of education.