Teacher Assistant; Resource-Special Education

Teacher Assistant - Instructional

Job Goal:
To aid teachers, secretaries, and clerical personnel when needed.

Essential Functions:

• Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes
• Distributes and collects workbooks, paper, and other materials for instruction
• Assists with supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips
• Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and makeup work as assigned by the teacher
• Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills
• Assumes responsibility for knowing and following the safety rules and proper procedures associated with the responsibilities of the job
• Checks and records attendance
• Arranges bulletin boards
• Types and duplicates tests, worksheets, and supplementary materials
• Assists in supervising children in lunchroom, playground, and loading buses
• Assists the teacher in assimilating materials for class displays
• Performs other duties as assigned

Physical Demands:

• This job may require lifting of objects that exceed 50 lbs., or the average weight of a child, if assigned to elementary grades, with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 25 lbs.
• Other physical demands that may be required are as follows: pushing, pulling, climbing, stooping, kneeling, crawling, reaching, talking, hearing, seeing

Work Conditions:
Normal working environment

Terms of Employment: 185-day contract Teacher assistant salary scale