Educational Aide (Special Education)
Department of Defense Education Activity
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Educational Aide (PreKindergarten)
Department of Defense Education Activity
Department of Defense
Job Description
Summary
This job is for an educational aide in a prekindergarten classroom at a Department of Defense school in Quantico, Virginia, where you'll support teachers by helping young children with daily activities, preparing learning materials, and ensuring a safe environment.
It involves tasks like monitoring students, assisting with personal care such as feeding and hygiene, and joining field trips or parent meetings.
A good fit would be someone patient and organized who enjoys working with toddlers and has basic office or childcare experience, or relevant college education.
Key Requirements
- At least one year of general experience in clerical, office, or similar work that demonstrates ability to learn educational support skills
- Or 2 years (60 semester hours) of education above high school as a substitute for experience
- Or a combination of education and experience equaling 100% of the requirement
- Strong communication skills for interacting with students, parents, and teachers
- Ability to monitor and supervise young children throughout the school day
- Competency in operating instructional equipment and technology devices
- Experience or willingness to assist with personal care routines like feeding, toileting, and hygiene
Full Job Description
About the Position: This position is located at: Department of Defense Education Activity - Americas, Mid-Atlantic District, Crossroads Elementary School, Quantico, Virginia.
Description of the Working Environment: Work is performed in a classroom setting. Who May Apply: U.S.
Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).
You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.
Experience required: To qualify based on experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job.
General experience is defined as: progressively responsible clerical, office or other work that indicates ability to acquire the particular knowledge and skills needed to perform the duties of an Educational Aide.
Education Substitution: Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience above in order to qualify.
For this job, you may qualify if your education meets the definitions below: 1) Qualifying based on education alone: Education may be substituted for general experience with 2 years (60 semester hours) of education above high school.
2) Qualifying based on a combination of education and general experience: A combination of education and general experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.
To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of qualifying experience by 12. Then divide your semester hours of undergraduate education by 60. Add the 2 percentages.
Note: For the purpose of qualifications, 1 full year of undergraduate education is equivalent to 30 semester hours.
You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas: Communications and Media Standards Teaching Others Major Duties:
- Participates in home visits, parent teacher conferences and other meetings.
- Ensures continuity of program in teacher’s absence.
- Monitoring students during various phases of school day.
- Maintains a clean and organized learning environment.
- Preparing instructional materials related to classroom lessons.
- Assists with teaching personal care routines: feeding, toileting and personal hygiene.
- Operates Instructional equipment and technology devices.
- Accompanying/supervising students on field trips.
- Produce material to display educational objectives to class.
- Apply assistive technology for recording student data.
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