EDUCATIONAL AIDE (PREKINDERGARTEN)

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position is located at: Department of Defense Education Activity - Americas, Mid-Atlantic District, Shughart Elementary School, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Description of the Working Environment: Work is performed in a classroom setting.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

Current Competitive Service Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Civilian Employee Current Excepted Service Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Employee Current Excepted Service Department of Defense Employee Current Excepted Service DoDEA Employee within the Commuting Area Current Excepted Service Employee Current Permanent Department of Defense (DoD) Civilian Employee Executive Order (E.O.) 12721 Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Non-Appropriated Fund Instrumentality (NAFI) Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer Postal Service/Peace Corps and Other Unique Authorities Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible 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.