School Assistant, Unterseen

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School Assistant Job Description

Date of Posting: August 25, 2025

Title:

School Assistant

Classification:

MNESPA

Reports to:

Building Principal

Primary Function:

The work year for School Assistants shall be the same as the number of student days as determined by the district. On days when there is an early dismissal, School Assistants shall work those hours. The workday is 5.25 hours per day. The School Assistant will focus on serving the instructional needs of the regular education students and the daily duties of each school they are assigned.

This position does not offer benefits.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities (These are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work performed. The omission of specific duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.)

Assist students (individually or in groups) with assigned class work to reinforce learning, concepts and

Assist with the supervision and care of students in the classroom, lunchroom, play areas, on field trips and other assigned

Keep inventories, records and performs other clerical duties as directed

Assist with testing process and procedures and checks tests, quizzes, and workbooksexercises as assigned

Preparation and duplication of class and school materials

Prepare and maintain bulletin boards

Assist teachers and students with computer and audio-visual equipment use and materials

Attends in-service and training programs, and school/parent meetings as requested

Maintains confidentiality of information

Perform all other duties as assigned by immediate supervisor

Other Job Duties

Assistants may carry out teacher-planned instruction. (The School Assistant may not introduce new instruction concepts).

Assistants may maintain oversight/supervision of the classroom when teacher is not available

Assistants may report observational data to professional school personnel

Assistants may assist the teacher / supervisor / principal with student discipline

Minimum Qualifications High school diploma or GED with experience working with school-aged children preferred. Good oral and written communication skills, visual acuity, and the ability to hear and read are required. Must possess the temperament to work with students and adults exhibiting a wide range of emotions and have the physical ability to perform the essential duties.

Employee performs task involving the regular and, at times, sustained performance of minimally physically demanding work, typically involving some combination of extended sitting, walking, operating a computer, use of hands and fingers to handle or feel objects or controls, stooping, kneeling, crouching, twisting, and reaching to access files or supplies, and that may involve the lifting, carrying, or pulling of moderately light objects and materials of 10-15

Tasks require the ability to hear, visual perception and discrimination, and oral communication

Employee works primarily in a climate-controlled environment except when assisting with student supervision of outdoor activities, transporting students and field

Ability to perform addition and subtraction, multiplication, division and other simple mathematical calculations and arrange, compare, count, differentiate, measure and/or sort data and/or information accurately.

Ability to establish and maintain effective working and cooperative relationships with others.

Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagrammatic form that involves semi-routine standardized work with some latitude for independent judgment concerning choices of

Ability to exercise the judgment, discretion, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving a variety of information against sensory, judgement, or subjective criteria, as opposed to that which is clearly measurable or ver

Ability to read and interpret documents such procedure manuals; ability to write routine reports and correspondence; and the ability to speak and exchange information effectively to one or more

Terms of Employment In accordance with the MNESPA Agreement

Marple Newtown School District 36 Media Line Road Newtown Square, PA 19073 Phone: 610-359-4380 Fax: 610-356-8947

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