Temporary Instructional Aide (7.5 Hours per Day), Available Sept 2025-December 2025
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Job Summary
Position: Temporary Instructional Aide (7.5 Hours per Day)
Available Sept 2025-December 2025
Amigos School
Amigos School Community:
La Escuela Amigos está dedicada a una sólida tradición de excelencia en la educación bilingüe del inglés y el español.
Located in the Cambridgeport neighborhood Amigos is a comprehensive Junior K8 school. Amigos welcomes students from diverse communities and cultural backgrounds. Through school-community collaborations Amigos strives to provide quality out-of-school-time programs that foster linguistic and cultural connections.
Two-way immersion fosters high levels of academic achievement bilingualism and cultural competencies among students ultimately contributing to their long-term preparation for the global economy. Bringing culturally diverse students together in situations where each has equal status fosters motivation and promotes cohesion community building and cooperation.
The Opportunity:
The instructional aide will work as an assistant teacher under the direction of the classroom teacher and the principal. The aide will assist the teacher in providing instruction to students in both Spanish and English and in planning and developing a positive learning environment that focuses on high academic achievement in two addition the aide will work with pupils individually and in small group activities make and prepare instructional materials and assist with recess and lunch supervision.
The successful candidate will work collaboratively with grade-level cluster and whole-school teams of teachers including specialists in areas such as ESL SSL and Special Education. The successful candidate must help implement an academically and linguistically active curriculum that is developmentally appropriate and socially/culturally responsive to the needs of the dual language student population.
Your Skill Set:
As the incoming Instructional Aide you will possess many though perhaps not all of the following characteristics and qualifications:
- Associates degree or 48 college credits from an accredited college or university
- High levels or native language proficiency in Spanish and English including listening speaking reading grammar and writing.
- Willingness to be trained in de-escalation and safe physical restraint techniques.
- Must have the physical ability to work on the floor and move around the room to support students and teachers in curriculum implementation use of manipulatives and other instructional methods and materials.
- Previous and successful experience working in a multicultural environment and demonstrated implementation of culturally responsive practices that include students from diverse ethnic cultural and socio-economic backgrounds.
How to Join Our Team:
At the Cambridge Public Schools we are committed to cultivating an environment where diverse perspectives and backgrounds are embraced acknowledging that a team reflecting diversity of race color ancestry national origin religion age gender marital/domestic partner status sexual orientation gender identity disability status and veteran status allows us to serve our communities better. To that end we welcome and encourage applicants to bring their authentic selves when considering employment opportunities within our school district.
Key Skills
- System Design
- Classroom Experience
- Learning Technology
- Instructional Design
- Adult Education
- SCORM
- LMS
- Training & Development
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- Adobe Captivate
- Curriculum Development
- Web Accessibility
