Part-time Primary Support Position - North York, Canada - Junior Academy

Description

1:1 Part Time Support Position - E.A. / ECE / CYC - (Primary Grades)

School Overview:
Junior Academy
Established in 1988, Junior Academy has built a community around the families whose children attend our school. This community spirit is vital to ensuring all students feel they can achieve academic success. Junior Academy is intentionally a small school. Our community environment ensures every teacher knows each child and each child knows every teacher.

At Junior Academy, we strive to put a child's strengths at the forefront of their education.

We believe that students do well if they can, therefore we provide a supportive environment where students are accepted, appreciated, encouraged and challenged according to their individual strengths.

Our goal is to provide our students with the means to realize their full potential and celebrate the contributions of each student as they achieve individual success.

Our focus on the Growth Mindset, Strength Based Education, the use of Collaborative and Proactive Solutions and Social Thinking are a few of the ways in which we achieve this goal.

Our teachers work together to ensure that all children-from gifted students to average learners to those needing more support-are taught in ways that enable them to succeed.

This flexibility in determining what works best for each student is admired and appreciated by our parents.


Role Overview:


The Role and Responsibilities:

• Helping to access learning strategies to fully participate in classroom learning opportunities.
• Providing redirection cues in class, in keeping with the student success plan.
• Providing prompts to access school readiness skills.
• Providing breaks when necessary.
• Developing additional strategies around classroom readiness.
• Providing direct and indirect assistance in order to increase academic output for daily work and assessment.
• Communicating effectively and timely with the administrative team, teachers, and family.
• Participating in School-Based Team meetings.
• Maintaining records for reporting data to the family.

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes

• Postsecondary education and experience as an Educational Assistant, Early Childhood Educator or CYC.
• Experience working in a classroom setting is required
• A passion for learning about the best approaches for working with exceptional children.
• Experience providing social / emotional support as well as academic support is an asset.
• Must be able to take a flexible and collaborative approach to working with children.
• Excellent problemsolving, critical thinking and decisionmaking skills.
• Ability to work independently, as well as part of the teaching team.
• Ability to work flexibly and to adapt in a constantly changing and thriving environment.
• Proven ability to develop smooth, collaborative working relationships with parents and colleagues.
• Valid police check is required in order to work in school setting.

Salary:
$ $25.00/per hour.


Hours and Commitment:
Monday through Friday, 8:30am-12:00pm.

Or mornings 3 days per week and afternoons two days per week.


Job Type:
Part-time


Salary:
$20.00-$25.00 per hour


Schedule:

• Day shift