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Position:  English as a New Language (ENL) Aide/Tutor

Work Schedule: 32.5 hours weekly, as appropriate. 

Student calendar +1 day before & after students.

Evaluation: After 90 Days, Thereafter Annually

Reports to:  Program Director of the ENL Program  

Compensation: According to ESP agreement / Level III Position 

Summary: Collaborate with general education classroom and certified ENL teachers as well as ENL staff to utilize instructional resource materials that will reinforce skills necessary for student success in language acquisition and academics.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Work with the ENL certified teacher to establish a schedule to provide added support to all assigned students.
2. Provide added support to general education classroom teachers for all identified ENL students.  Maintain ENL student files.
3. Record basic data.
4. Attend ENL staff meetings for direction and training.
5. Work with individual or small groups of students to reinforce learning of skills initially introduced by the classroom or ENL teacher.
6. Assist students and teachers with information that will facilitate students' adjustment to a new culture.
7. Attend professional development opportunities as appropriate.
8. Accept additional tasks/duties that contribute to the efficient implementation of the corporation's organizational and educational functions.
9. Act as a liaison between faculty and students. Build and maintain a positive rapport with the school community.
10. Follow other directives from the Program Director, Assistant Superintendent for Instruction and the Building Principal that serve to improve services to the students and patrons of the Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation.

Qualification Requirements:

1. Forty-eight  credit hours of college or the ability to take and successfully pass the paraprofessional test. Two years post secondary or bachelors degree preferred.
2. General office skills: provide appropriate notifications to parents, teachers and ENL office utilizing basic word processing, template and spreadsheet programs.
3. Ability to maintain confidentiality.
4. Willingness to improve and/or develop job-related skills.
5. Excellent communication skills-oral, written, and interpersonal. Detail oriented.
6. Excellent work habits, attendance record and successfully complete and pass all criminal history and child abuse clearances.
7. Shall remain free of any alcohol or nonprescribed controlled substance abuse in the workplace throughout his/her employment in the Corporation.

Physical Ability ~ Physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, talk, and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Sensory Requirements ~ Most tasks require visual perception and discrimination. All tasks require oral communications ability.

Environmental Factors ~ The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job: 

• Tasks are regularly performed without potential exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as temperature and noise extremes, odors, humidity, vibrations, traffic hazards, violence, disease, or pathogenic substances.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, however the noise level can vary depending upon daily activity, but will still remain within the acceptable noise level range.

Mental Effort ~ Normal Concentration/intensity, which includes prolonged mental effort with limited opportunity for breaks. 

When duties and responsibilities change and develop the job description will be reviewed and subject to changes of business necessity

The Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to allow them to perform the essential functions of the job when such individuals request an accommodation.

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