Special EducationTeaching Assistant - Broadmeadow Elementary

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Pay

• Minimum Starting Salary:
  • 0 years of experience with High School Diploma: $18.57/hr
  • 0 years of experience with Associates Degree: $19.60/hr
  • 0 years of experience with Bachelors Degree: $20.63/hr
• Maximum Starting Salary:
  • 30 years of experience with High School Diploma: $28.56/hr
  • 30 years of experience with Associates Degree: $29.60/hr
  • 30 years of experience with Bachelors Degree: $30.65/hr

About the Role

To assist the teacher in achieving teaching objectives by working with individual students, small groups, or whole classrooms to help students achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole. To provide a well-organized, smoothly functioning class environment in which students can take full advantage of the instructional program and available resource materials.

Requirements

• Must have 60 hours of college course credits or have passed a State-approved test granting paraprofessional certification.
• Possess strong communication skills (written and oral).
• Proficiency in the native language of bilingual students and English, including the ability to write and speak in both languages fluently and grammatically correct.
• Live in or be familiar with the surrounding community.

Responsibilities

• Translate between the native language of bilingual students and English in classroom, meeting, or phone call situations with students, parents, and teachers.
• Translate documents from the native language of bilingual students to English correctly.
• Administer, score, and record achievement and diagnostic tests as recommended by the teacher for individual students.
• Work with individual students or small groups to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Assist the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on an understanding of individual students’ needs, interests, and abilities.
• Help students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher.
• Guide independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
• Assist with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
• Assist with large group activities such as drill work, reading aloud, and storytelling.
• Read to students, listen to students read, and participate in other forms of oral communication with students.
• Assist students in the library or media center.
• Check notebooks, correct papers, and supervise testing and make-up work as assigned by the teacher.
• Help students with their clothing.
• Assist with lunch, snack, and clean-up routines.
• Assist with wash-up and toilet routines.
• Alert the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• Serve as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
• Maintain the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
• Participate in in-service training programs as assigned.
• Other responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.

Mental Demands

• Ability to communicate effectively with parents, students, teachers, administration, and community members.
• Ability to maintain emotional control under stress.
• Ability to use email and office equipment effectively.
• Ability to work with students individually or in group settings.

Working Conditions

• Indoor classrooms/school exposure to: student noise, lawn mowing, music, odors of food, mowed grass, and possible communicable diseases.
• Outdoor schoolyard and grounds, field trips: exposure to temperatures (hot, warm, cool, and cold) and exposure to mowed grass.
• Regular work attendance required.