Teaching Assistant

and the job listing Expires on February 21, 2026

is to educate, serve, and advocate with students, families, schools and the community. We disrupt racial inequities, build just educational systems, and expand access for all learners. We value human potential while striving to support current and future generations of Washtenaw County to enrich as many lives as we possibly can.

is to be a leader in empowering, facilitating, and delivering high-quality, boundary-spanning, educational system that educates all children through an equitable, inclusive, and holistic approach.

The Teaching Assistant supports the professional staff in implementing individual student education plans and positive behavioral support services/programs for students with severe emotional and/or behavioral disorders. The position involves assisting classroom teacher and teaching teams with any and all of the students in the classroom/program, under the teacher’s direction.

• Demonstrates a strong commitment to equity, social justice, and inclusion in all practices and position responsibilities.
• Demonstrates the ability to examine how his/her/their position (directly or indirectly) impacts educational inequities in student achievement outcomes.
• Engages in reflection and ongoing learning and development on critical concepts and terms identified in the Washtenaw ISD Educational Equity Policy including concepts such as cultural proficiency, racial equity, and systemic and structural inequities
• Supports WISD vision and mission to enhance achievement for all students.
• Demonstrates excellent customer service.
• Demonstrate operational knowledge of Internet and Web-related technologies
• Demonstrates skills and comfort using the latest instructional online tools and technology
• An awareness of Trauma-Informed Care practices that will support students in the educational environment
• Provides group or individualized academic instruction, remediation or guided practice using instructional objectives and lessons developed by the classroom teacher.
• Implements program-wide and individual student behavior intervention programs, including monitoring behavior data collection, preparing incident reports, physical intervention and reward systems under the direction of classroom teachers and social workers.
• Supervises and monitors students within non-structured settings (i.e. arrival, departure, lunch and recess).
• Collects information on and summarizes student progress toward achievement of IEP goals/objectives under the direction of classroom teachers.
• Assists in the development, maintenance and adaptation of instructional materials under the direction of classroom teachers.
• Maintains records and performs other clerical tasks under the direction of classroom teachers.
• Assists in the use of instructional technology under the direction of classroom teachers.
• Participates in building level activities, staff meetings, student staff meetings, program meetings, in-service activities and other meetings as determined necessary for program and assigned students.
• Supports WISD vision and mission to enhance achievement for all students.
• Supports, participates in and is committed to continued learning related to a team-based approach to problem solving.
• Provides assistance to the operation of the total school program.
• Participates in professional development, maintains appropriate certification and qualifications and keeps current in changing pedagogy.
• Participates in district and school initiatives, adheres to building and district school improvement plans.
• Adheres to district and school rules and procedures.
• Supports WISD vision and mission to enhance achievement for all students.
• Supports a team-based approach to problem solving.
• Conducts behavior to demonstrate appropriate role-modeling, collegiality and professionalism.
• Performs such other tasks as may from time to time be assigned by the supervisor.
• Regular predictable attendance.
• Other duties as assigned.

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To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty…