Certified Teaching Assistant (CTA), Leave Replacement (Mildred E Strang MS)

Certified Teaching Assistants (CTAs) provide instructional services to students under the general supervision of a Certified Teacher.

Qualifications

• NYSED Certification as a Level I Teaching Assistant (Must obtain Level III within 4 years of appointment. Recommendations for extension of Level I will only be made if all requirements for Level II have been met except the required work experience).
• Completion of required state workshops: Child Abuse Detection & Reporting, School Violence Prevention, and DASA.

Responsibilities

• Work with individual students or groups of students on special instructional projects.
• Provide the teacher with information about students which will assist the teacher in the development of appropriate learning and behavioral experiences.
• Assist students in the use of available instructional resources, and assist in the development of instructional materials.
• Utilize own special skills and abilities by assisting in instructional programs in such areas as: foreign languages, arts, crafts, music and similar subjects.
• Assist in related instructional work as required.
• Assist students with specific health related activities as appropriate.
• Maintains instructional materials and/or manual and electronic files/records (e.g. lessons, attendance, pencils, paper, teaching supplies, etc.) for the purpose of ensuring availability of items, providing written reports, or meeting mandated requirements.
• Performs general clerical tasks for the purpose of helping the teacher get instructional materials ready.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Skills

• Ability to carry out instruction furnished in written or oral form.
• Ability to understand, apply and use personal computers and software applications.
• Ability to work with a diverse group of individuals.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of information regarding students, employees and others.
• Ability to establish a supportive and compassionate relationship with students with special needs.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with students, staff and others contacted in the course of work.
• Ability to report work orally and in writing to supervisor as required.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to stand, walk, and sit.
• Regularly required to climb, squat, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and to reach above the head and reach forward.
• Regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools or controls and to talk and hear.
• Occasionally required to lift and/or push up to 50 pounds.
• Must have specific vision abilities for close vision, distance vision, depth perception and tell the difference between colors.

Work Environment

• The noise level in the work environment is typical for a school environment.
• Work generally performed indoors with limited outside supervision of students.

Pay

Minimum starting range: $19.50 - $33.28 per hour.