Full-Time and Permanent; 6.5 Hours/Day; 182 Days/Year; 10 Months/Year; Grade:GG

General Responsibilities

The teacher assistant provides instructional support to teachers in the daily management and instruction of students.  An employee in this class is responsible for performing instructional and clerical tasks to relieve teacher of routine activities and to help carry out daily classroom activities.  A teacher assistant may be assigned to locations such as pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, regular general education classrooms, and certain special education classrooms, or a computer learning center/lab (except those where a teacher is not present during instructional periods.  All important aspects of the work are subject to detailed and specific procedures.

Education and Experience

Requires completion of at least forty-eight (48) college credit hours from an accredited college or university; or must have achieved a score of 455 on the Department of Education Para-Pro exam. At least two years of experience working with children; to include experience working with special education students in a classroom setting.

Essential Job Functions

• Performs designated learning tasks with students such as demonstrating or explaining lessons, prompting students, monitoring tests, and/or using supplementary materials; supervises other instructional tasks.
• Monitors student activities, observes and reports students' learning; reads to students.
• Attends to children with certain disabilities (including LD, MR, ED, and PH); may serve part-time in an alternative learning class.
• Operates office equipment such as typewriter, duplicator, photocopier, word processors and printers, projectors, and other audio-visual equipment.
• Maintains bulletin boards, student records of attendance, lunch tickets and health charts, and classroom supplies.
• Assists in performing therapeutic crisis intervention.
• Performs a wide variety of monitoring, record keeping, and file maintenance for an accelerated learning program.
• Escorts and assists students in physical and playground activities, to lunchroom, to resource classes, to the library, and to restrooms, escorts students on field trips.
• May work with individual or groups of students requiring close attention; helps students with physical disabilities; and/or attends to students' physical and sanitation needs.
• Monitors children on playground, or in room when teacher is not present (IEP conferences, parent conferences, etc.) and performs morning and afternoon bus duty monitoring.
• Performs additional duties as assigned.