Employment

Job Posted: Apr. 24, 2024

The Teacher Aide brings warmth, patience, and understanding to these programs every day, by encouraging children to learn about God, discover their purpose, and make a difference. They are committed to making our school a safe place for all children by creating positive interactions with their team and establishing relationships with our children and families.

They ensure that our programs provide a safe, nurturing Christian environment with engaging activities to stimulate the school-agers attention. This position is a support staff position that will help the Before/After School Program teacher create age-appropriate activities, themes, and devotions, creating daily schedules, updating handbooks, safety guidelines, planning field trips and attending field trips.
 
Main Job Tasks and Responsibilities

Assist the teacher to:

• Fulfill the mission of Calvary Christian School to help students know God, achieve academic excellence, discover their purpose, and make a difference.
• Cooperate with the Director and Administrative Team in implementing all policies, procedures, and directives governing the operation of the Kids Club program throughout the school year.  
• Establish and maintain a developmentally appropriate and excellent environment that supports the growth and development of school-agers.
• Conduct developmentally appropriate daily routines for children.
• Turn in written attendance sheets according to the schedule established.
• Observe, record, and report significant individual and group behavior.
• Establish a safe and healthy nurturing environment for children.
• Supervise children by sight and sound at all times.
• Display teaching excellence for other staff; role model, share professional and technical information.
• Follow snack schedules and procedures as needed.
• Maintain clean, attractive, well-ordered classrooms.
• Maintain regular and accurate attendance records.
• Follow the Matthew 18 principle in resolving students, parents, and administration conflicts.
• Attend and participate in scheduled trainings, in-service, faculty, and parent meetings.
• Know the procedures for dealing with issues of an emergency nature.
• Inform the Director/Executive Team in a timely manner if unable to fulfill any duty assigned.
• Ensure children are properly supervised at all times, and schedule sufficient staff to ensure administrative designated student ratios are maintained.
• Collaborate with the staff to bring purposeful, creative work to the afterschool program as well as to camps.
• Support afterschool/kids club teachers in effectively delivering content through observation feedback and coaching.
• Implement appropriate activities in accordance with established program goals and quality standards at Calvary Christian School.
• Work with various organizations and groups to implement assigned programs such as chess club, coding club, and intramural sports.
• Assemble supplies, set-up and take-down of equipment, tables, and chairs as needed.
• Ensures facilities, equipment, and play areas are in clean, safe, and in excellent condition.
• Supervise a variety of recreation and social events/programs (including community field trips and other camp-related activities and projects)
• Oversee student discipline as needed.
• Fill in classrooms as needed.
• Oversee reception and work as needed.
• Render routine first aid as necessary.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Miscellaneous:

• When driving the Calvary bus, adhere to all traffic laws and regulations. When boarding the bus, check that every child is accounted for. When exiting the bus, check if all children have been accounted for. 

Key Competencies

• Be in whole-hearted agreement with the school’s Statement of Faith,
• Be a "born-again" Christian who knows the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior (John 3:3, 1 Peter 1:23).
• Be a Christian role model in attitude, speech, and action toward others.  This includes being committed to God’s Biblical standards for sexual conduct.  
• Faithfully attend and financially support a local church whose fundamental beliefs are in agreement with the Statement of Faith of this school (Hebrews 10:25).
• Have the spiritual maturity, academic ability, and personal leadership qualities to “train up a child in the way he should go.”
• Self-motivation
• Verbal and written communication skills
• Attention to detail
• High work standards
• Problem-solving skills
• Decision making
• Learning orientation
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Initiative

Education and Experience

• Associate or Bachelor's degree in Childhood Education or Development preferred but not required
• Minimum of 2 years of experience, as documented in three written references.

Relationships

• The number of people supervised: Before and Afterschool Kids Club Teachers/ Camp Counselors, and Check-In Receptionist.
• Know all of your students and families by name.

 
Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully.  Reasonable accommodations may enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand and walk throughout the facility; Must be able to talk, hear and have sufficient vision to allow for active supervision and interaction with students.   The employee is required to reach with hands and arms.  The employee must lift, hold and/or move up to 45 pounds. 
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear.  The employee is occasionally required to walk and reach with hands and arms.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.