# Instructional Aide

**Company**: ACCEL Schools
**Location**: Eastern Panhandle Preparatory Academy
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

ACCEL Schools is seeking an Instructional Aide for Eastern Panhandle Preparatory Academy in Kearneysville, WV.

Be part of the difference at Eastern Panhandle Preparatory Academy (EPPA), a public charter school serving PK-8th grade students on a 30-acre rural campus in Jefferson County, West Virginia. EPPA provides a highly individualized college prep learning environment featuring small class sizes, a fully certified and licensed faculty, and strong support from parents and the community.

### Responsibilities

As an Instructional Aide, you will assist the Teacher with classroom activities and help promote positive student behaviors in both academics and extra-curricular activities. Your responsibilities will include:

- Supporting lessons taught by the teacher to individual students or groups of students and following instructional plans as assigned by the Teacher or School Leader

- Helping plan classroom activities as directed by the Teacher and supporting the Teacher in all student and parent relations

- Assisting with school activities such as parent-faculty nights, faculty meetings, assemblies, commencement exercises, fundraisers, chaperoning student activities, providing guidance for students, and participating on faculty committees

- Performing clerical duties including grading papers and making copies

- Assisting the Teacher in the use of classroom technology

- Helping maintain the cleanliness of the classroom, lunchroom, and other school areas

- Understanding, accepting, abiding by, and implementing the school's philosophy and mission statement in all school activities

- Other duties as assigned, including field trips, morning duty, dismissal duty, and lunch duty

### Performance Expectations

- Working cooperatively with the Teacher and others

- Acting in accordance with directives from the Administrator (or designee) and teacher

- Contributing to a positive climate and culture by exhibiting high professional standards

### Requirements

- Associate degree, two years of college coursework, or the passage of the Paraprofessional's Exam

- Proficiency in MS Office

- Successful completion of BCI/FBI check

- Ability to meet educational standards as applicable

- Ability to work well under pressure and effectively prioritize and execute tasks to meet deadlines consistently

- Understanding and ability to manage confidential information

- High-quality written and verbal communication skills

- Physical ability to lift 25-40 lbs.

- Experience in a school or social services setting is a plus

## Skills

### Required
- MS Office
- BCI/FBI check
- Paraprofessional's Exam

### Nice to have
- Experience in a school or social services setting

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