Early Childhood - Teaching Assistant

Early Childhood - Teaching Assistant

3.25 hours a day (mornings) M-W-F Begins:
Fall 2026

Pay rate: $19.81-$22.25/hour (2025-26 rates) - Category B Per MSEA Collective Bargaining Unit Agreement

Qualifications:

• High school graduate or GED.
• Pre-school or child care experience.
• Current First Aid and CPR certification.
• Initiative to help out where needed.

Reports To:

Assistant Director of Early Learning

Job Goals:

To assist in providing a well-organized, smooth functioning Early Learning Program.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Support and monitor students in educational settings.
• Provide teacher support; objective observation, data keeping, and prepare and organize materials.
• Assist in implementing successful student programs as designed by education staff.
• Participate in program trainings provided.
• Demonstrate sensitivity to diversity in cultural heritage, lifestyles, and value systems among students and families.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the building principal and/or supervising teacher, specific to early childhood programming.
• Ability to work outside in all weather.

Physical Demands:

• Rarely: 1 to 10%;
  Occasionally: 11 to 33%;
  Frequently: 34 to 66%; and Continuously: 67 to 100% of the workday.
• Stand Continuously
• Walk Continuously
• Sit Occasionally
• Hand Dexterity Frequently
• Hand and Arm Extension Frequently
• Climb and/or Balance Frequently
• Stoop/Kneel/Crouch/Crawl Frequently
• Bend and/or Twist Frequently
• Talk or Hear Continuously
• Taste or Smell Rarely
• Lift and Carry up to 10lbs Frequently
• Lift and Carry up to 25lbs Frequently
• Lift and Carry up to 50lbs Occasionally
• Lift and Carry up to 75lbs Occasionally
• Lift and Carry up to 100lbs Rarely
• Lift and Carry more than 100lbs Rarely

Evaluation:
Performance of this job will be evaluated annually.