Part-Time (5 hours) Teacher Assistant (SPED)

Position Type:

Student Support Services/Teaching Assistant

Date Posted:

5/5/2025

Location:

Fairview Marguerite Elementary School

Date Available:

05/05/2025

Closing Date:

Until FilledTEACHER ASSISTANT -

SPECIAL EDUCATION EXTENDED RESOURCE

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum high school diploma or G.E.D.

48 semester hours of college credit or score of 456 on ParaPro Assessment

Meets health and physical requirements

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 approveal 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 (Personal traits)

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

Specific capacities and abilities may be required of an individual in order to learn or adequately perform a task or job duty.

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 then

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

IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR

Classroom teacher and/or principal and supervisor of special services

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so assigned.

Adopted 07/01/93

Revised 11/2010

Revised 03/21/17

Attachment(s):

Teacher Assistant Job Description.doc