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Substitute Instructional Aide
2025-11-14 Autauga County Schools Prattville,AL
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Qualifications
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About ESS
As leaders in the education staffing space since 2000, ESS specializes in placing qualified staff in daily, long-term, and permanent K-12 school district positions including substitute teachers, paraprofessionals, and other school support staff. Over the last 23 years, we have innovated education staffing to provide dynamic solutions to school districts and professional opportunities to passionate educators. Our team serves over 5 million students with a pool of 92,000 substitute and permanent employees throughout 34 states. Internally, the ESS team is comprised of 650 individuals with a passion for education working together to ensure our 900 partner districts experience valuable education every day.
We provide our employees with the ability to work in school districts across the country in addition to benefits, comprehensive training, flexible work schedules, and professional development. Our partner school districts receive customized solutions, hands-on management, technology, and program analytics and reporting.
ESS Diversity Statement
ESS continuously works to create an environment where all its employees - regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, age or abilities - can work to the fullest of their potential in a fair and welcoming space. Believing that a diverse company is more innovative and successful, we have embraced diversity to ensure that we are empowered to make sure that "Every day counts" for our employees, the students, and the schools we serve nationwide.
ESS is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.
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Substitute Instructional Aide
An ESS substitute paraprofessional assists the classroom teacher to provide extra support to students with special needs, promoting maximum academic and personal growth. The substitute paraprofessional job responsibilities range from supplementing regular classroom curriculum to helping individual students.
Substitute paraprofessionals are also known as school aides, teacher assistants, instructional aides, one-to-one aides, and personal care assistants.
Responsibilities
- Perform tasks related to classroom activities under the supervision of a certified teacher(s).
- Work with small groups of students to reinforce and to reteach when necessary material initially introduced by the teacher(s).
- Work with individual students who need special attention.
- Guide independent study, enrichment work, remedial help, and follow-up work as specified by the teacher(s).
- Assist the teacher(s) with drill work, reading and storytelling.
- Check notebooks, grade and correct papers, and supervise testing and make-up work.
- Assist the teacher(s) with routine classroom clerical duties and routine housekeeping activities.
- Assist the teacher(s) with the preparation of instructional aids for classroom use, with bulletin boards and other learning displays.
- Set up audiovisual equipment for classroom use.
- Assist the teacher(s) with non-instructional classroom duties, such as snack, break, toilet, and clothing routines.
- Supervise small groups of students who leave the classroom setting to do library work (under supervision of the librarian).
- Help with duties related to the supervision of students during such times as lunch periods, assemblies, and field trips.
- Respect and maintain the confidentiality of information as required by school system policy.
- Maintain the same high level of ethical and professional standards as is expected of all personnel.
- Participate in in-service activities and paraprofessional training as mandated by the State Department of Education.
- Perform any other duty as assigned.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma or GED
- AL Background Check
For frequently asked questions, click here .
About ESS
As leaders in the education staffing space since 2000, ESS specializes in placing qualified staff in daily, long-term, and permanent K-12 school district positions including substitute teachers, paraprofessionals, and other school support staff. Over the last 23 years, we have innovated education staffing to provide dynamic solutions to school districts and professional opportunities to passionate educators. Our team serves over 5 million students with a pool of 92,000 substitute and permanent employees throughout 34 states. Internally, the ESS team is comprised of 650 individuals with a passion for education working together to ensure our 900 partner districts experience valuable education every day.
We provide our employees with the ability to work in school districts across the country in addition to benefits, comprehensive training, flexible work schedules, and professional development. Our partner school districts receive customized solutions, hands-on management, technology, and program analytics and reporting.
ESS Diversity Statement
ESS continuously works to create an environment where all its employees - regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, age or abilities - can work to the fullest of their potential in a fair and welcoming space. Believing that a diverse company is more innovative and successful, we have embraced diversity to ensure that we are empowered to make sure that "Every day counts" for our employees, the students, and the schools we serve nationwide.
ESS is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.
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