Teacher's Aide

Overview

Flex School is a unique, accredited private school network specializing in creating educational environments for gifted, twice-exceptional, and non-traditional learners. We strive to empower students by providing flexible academic pathways, small class sizes, and a supportive community that focuses on individual strengths and challenges. At Flex School, our mission is to foster intellectual curiosity, emotional growth, and social responsibility, ensuring every student can thrive both in and out of the classroom.

• Providing one-on-one student support and supervision in the classroom, in support of both the individual student and an overall safe and stimulating educational environment.
• Utilizing the student profile to proactively plan, preparing, and developing various teaching aids for use in the classroom to support student success, including activity sheets, drawings, and similar handouts.
• Providing redirection as needed to support appropriate classroom behaviors.
• Supervising and supporting student breaks from the classroom as needed.
• Supporting the student in learning to identify and proactively prepare for challenges such as sensory stimuli, social discomfort, etc., and to develop strategies for self-regulating and returning to class.
• Presenting and reinforcing class subject matter to the student, under the guidance of a teacher, utilizing a variety of methods including stories, discussions, and role-playing as needed.
• Assisting the student with assignments to present or reinforce learning concepts.
• In the absence of the teacher, may confer with parents on student progress.
• Perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

• Patient, flexible, positive, consistent, dependable, creative, and cooperative with a sense of humor
• Mental stamina to work positively with students for the length of scheduled workday
• Sufficient security and judgment to handle crisis situations
• Experience working with gifted/LD students a plus
• High school diploma or GED
• At least 1 year of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified