Oakwood School

Classroom Assistant

North Hollywood, CA
Full Time
Entry Level
DESCRIPTION
Classroom Assistants must be prepared to support teachers as they challenge students academically, physically, and artistically and to establish genuine relationships within our community.  Classroom Assistants will help with planning special activities to pique our students’ interests in a variety of ways.

Classroom Assistants are scheduled for 37.5 hours per week in the classroom. This position is a 10-month role which follows our academic school year from August through June each year.
REQUIREMENTS
  • Classroom, After School Program or Summer Camp work experience, or other equivalent professional experience working with children
  • Bachelor’s degree in Education preferred but not required
  • Commitment to our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) mission
  • Ability to think on one’s feet
  • Ability to work collaboratively
  • Must enjoy working with children and demonstrate good judgment in doing so
  • Patience and a sense of humor
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Supervises and supports the teacher with classroom programming and activities. Sets up and dismantles actives and projects as needed.
  • Supervises and facilitates free-choice activities and recess.
  • Assists the teacher with developing weekly lesson plans.
  • Submits material requests.
  • Helps students learn in creative, hands-on, interactive, and age-appropriate ways
  • Incorporates opportunities for students to collaborate, problem-solve, and be creative
  • Other duties as assigned
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
While performing the essential functions of this job, the incumbent must be able to do the following: stand for extended periods; sit for extended periods; bend and reach for filing and other job-related functions; climb up and down stairs; bend, stoop, and lift to move and retrieve materials; pull, push, and lift; reach both above and below shoulder height.  Specific visual abilities include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.  Must be able to visually inspect work.  Manual dexterity to operate computer and other office equipment required. 
The physical demands described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made.

Salary Range: $21-$23 an hour

 

Oakwood School is a K-12 coeducational day school in North Hollywood, California that opened its doors in 1951. The school has remained faithful to its original mission ever since: to create a diverse educational environment where young people are partners with the adults who teach them and learn from them; where the best means of preparing students for the future is to immerse them in the present; where a healthy learning environment requires joy and humor as well as rigorous intensity; and where students’ intellectual and aesthetic depth – along with their capacity for empathy and moral courage – emerge out of authentic engagement with their teachers, one another, and the world around them.

Oakwood School is an equal opportunity employer committed to cultural diversity in our workforce. With purpose, Oakwood celebrates and affirms diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, faith, family structure, socioeconomic background, age, and ability.

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