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West Ottawa Public Schools

Educational Assistant

Woodside Elementary SchoolPosted 3 weeks ago
Support Staff/

Job Description

Notice of Support Staff Posting

 

Position: Educational Assistant Posting # 3960

  • Woodside Elementary 

Posting Dates: April 16, 2026 � Until Filled 

Reports To: Principal

Beginning: April 30, 2026

Hours: 29.5 hours per week

Monday - Friday

School year/Part-time

Qualifications: 

  • Experience working with children on academics

     

Job Responsibilities: 

  • Work with small groups or individual students to provide academic support and reinforce classroom instruction
  • Support students with behavioral needs through interventions such as breaks, check-in/check-out, and implementation of behavior support plans
  • Build positive relationships with students and reinforce schoolwide PBIS expectations
  • Supervise students during recess, lunch, and other unstructured times to maintain safety and support positive behavior
  • Assist staff with student supervision, classroom support, and other duties as assigned

     

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

  • Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
  • Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
  • Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
  • Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken work; those activities where detailed or import spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
  • Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
  • Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
  • The worker is subject to environmental conditions.

The worker should provide consistent and reliable in person attendance.

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