Title: 1.0 ISS Instructor 25-26

Department: School Administration

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Pay Band: G

Days/Hours: 180 Days/7 hours per day

Applicant must have a 2-year associate degree, or 60 semester hours of college course work, or taken and passed the ParaPro Assessment

General Statement of Job

Under limited supervision, supervises, plans and directs day-to-day operation of the in-school suspension program, providing an alternative to home suspension. Motivates and assists students in resolving problems which threaten effective school performance. Reports to the School Principal.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Manages daily operations of the in-school suspension program. Supervises and manages suspended students' activities for the school day; chooses appropriate instructional assignments for students and gives assistance as needed. Collects assigned work and returns to teachers.
• Works with guidance counselors, teachers and other professional staff to help motivate students to resolve problems which threaten effective school performance. Devises special methods of motivation.
• Intervenes with students in crisis to manage behavior problems and to facilitate student academic and social progress; diffuses confrontations between students and others as necessary.
• Schedule and participate in parent conferences, as necessary.
• Maintains knowledge of and interacts with various community programs and services that could provide guidance and redirection for troubled students.
• Maintains accurate attendance records and other records and reports as required.
• Organizes and manage Substitute Center, acting as a substitute teacher when necessary and implementing assignments provided by teachers, as necessary.
• Supervises after-school detention as required, as necessary.
• Maintains records of referrals and provide monthly reports to teachers and to the District, as necessary.
• Monitors student behavior in absence of other supervision.
• Monitors the halls after the bell to make sure students are in their correct location.
• Calls parents if referrals are not returned by students, if student’s behavior is interfering with academics.
• Operates a variety of equipment which may include a computer, audio-visual equipment, laminating machine, telephone, copier, adding machine, etc.

Additional Duties:

Performs related duties as required.

Minimum Education and Training

Applicant must have a 2-year associate degree, or 60 semester hours of college course work, or taken and passed the ParaPro Assessment

Three to five years of experience in an educational setting working with adolescents, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities is preferred.

Minimum Qualifications and Standards Required

Physical Requirements:

Must be physically able to operate a variety of automated office machines and equipment, including a computer, basic office equipment, adding machine, telephone, etc. Must be able to exert up to five pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Must be able to lift/carry weights of five to ten pounds.

Data Conception:

Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or compositional characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.

Interpersonal Communication:

Requires the ability of speaking and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving assignments and/or directions to students and receiving assignments and/or direction from supervisor.

Language Ability:

Requires the ability to read a variety of student text books, policies and procedures, student records, etc. Requires the ability to prepare routine records and reports with proper format, punctuation, spelling and grammar, using all parts of speech. Requires the ability to speak with and before others with poise, voice control and confidence.

Intelligence:

Requires the ability to apply rational systems to solve practical problems, and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists; to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form. Requires the ability to apply influence systems in supervising students; to make independent judgments in absence of supervision, and to acquire knowledge of topics related to primary occupation. Must have the ability to comprehend and interpret received information.

Verbal Aptitude:

Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow and give verbal and written instructions, and to counsel and teach students. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently with persons of varying educational backgrounds and in a variety of technical and/or professional languages.

Numerical Aptitude:

Requires the ability to add and subtract totals, to multiply and divide, to utilize mathematical formulas, to determine percentages and decimals, and to determine time. Must be able to use practical applications of fractions, percentages, ratio and proportion.

Form/Spatial Aptitude:

Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape, and visually read various information.

Motor Coordination:

Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes using office machinery.

Manual Dexterity:

Requires the ability to handle a variety of items, office equipment, control knobs, switches, etc. Must have the ability to use one hand for twisting or turning motion while coordinating other hand with different activities. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Color Discrimination:

Does not require the ability to differentiate colors and shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament:

Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress when confronted with emergency situations or tight deadlines. The worker may be subject to danger or risk to a slight degree.

Physical Communication:

Requires the ability to talk and/or hear with talking defined as expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words and hearing being defined as perceiving nature of sounds by ear.

Work Environment:

The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

All candidates must be able to pass an extensive background investigation before being hired.

The School District of Pickens County does not discriminate for reasons of age, race, sex, handicap, national origin, or religion in its communications with students, employees, the community, applicants for employment, events, or for access to its services.