Teacher Assistant; SPED

Teacher Assistant - Special Education

Job Goal:
To assist teachers in giving specialized academic and physical training to students with disabilities.

Essential Functions:

• Maintains student records
• Performs instructional activities
• Administers diagnostic tools
• Prepares the classroom and organizes instructional materials and equipment
• Monitors the classroom when the teacher must attend staffings, provides consultation, etc.
• Attends inservice and faculty meetings when requested by principal or supervisor of special services
• Adheres to the established work hours
• Maintains confidential information in a professional manner
• Performs other routinized duties as assigned by the building-level administrator, subject to approval of the supervisor of special services
• Assists students with toileting, catheterization, feeding, and other self-help activities as required
• Changes or helps spina bifida students
• Supervises students on bus trips as required
• Assists with bus duty
• Assists with lunch duty
• Assists with disabled students at lunch or in regular class
• Helps with specific regular classes in which extended resource students are involved
• 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.

Vocational Preparation:
The required vocational preparation may come from any of the following: vocational education, apprentice training, on-the-job training, essential experience.

Temperament:
Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure. Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an activity. Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria. Adaptability to dealing with students.

Capacity and Ability Requirements:
Intelligence:
Ability to understand instructions and underlying principles; ability to reason and make judgments. Verbal:
Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them. Manual Dexterity:
Ability to move the fingers and manipulate small objects with the fingers rapidly and accurately. Form Perception:
To make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures. Color Discrimination:
Ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color.

Work Conditions:
Normal working environment.

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