Teacher Assistant, Special Education (1:1)

About the role

This is work providing instructional support, training, and personal assistance to teachers of students with physical disabilities or intellectual disabilities. This position works directly 1:1 with an assigned student who needs additional support.

Responsibilities

• Assist the teacher by performing instructional duties
• Prepare classroom materials
• Supervise student behavior
• Learn and apply specific behavior management techniques
• Perform clerical duties
• Provide assistance with personal hygiene and physical care as required
• Provide individual instructional support as assigned by the teacher
• Assist the teacher by having materials ready
• Present activities in developmental areas: cognitive, speech and language, fine motor, gross motor, social/emotional, and daily living skills
• Reinforce concepts and practice skills
• Collect and record student data such as skill practice, seizure occurrences, and toileting
• Provide discipline in the absence of the teacher and maintain consistency with teacher-established procedures
• Implement behavior modification plans
• Practice individual speech sounds, vocabulary, and syntax objectives with students as directed by the speech therapist
• Read to students and ask questions to stimulate language development
• Present language activities involving expressive and receptive areas of development
• Supervise learning centers during independent student work and assist students in manipulating materials
• Participate in classroom activities such as discussions and games
• Operate computer and audiovisual equipment such as DVD, data projector, or smartboards
• Perform related work as required

Requirements

• Regularly talking, expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word
• Convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly
• Possess normal cognitive abilities including the ability to learn, recall and apply certain practices and policies
• Frequently sitting and/or remaining in a stationary position for long periods of time
• Exert up to 25 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects

Reports to: Principal
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Remote Work Eligible: No
Union Designation: Non-certified

Qualifications

• Education: High school diploma or GED
• Experience: Experience as a teacher aide or working with children
• Licenses and Certifications: Not applicable

Skills

• Ability to work under the supervision of the teacher, including following lesson plans prepared by teachers
• Ability to work effectively with individual children and small groups, meeting the instructional objectives as established by the teacher
• Physical ability to lift, position, and assist students as required
• Ability to accept and adapt to the wide differences in student characteristics and abilities
• Ability to operate standard office equipment, learn to operate video equipment, and learn to perform individual medical procedures when necessary
• Good human relations and communications skills; patience and flexibility

Pay

Salary Range: $22.47 - $25.28 per hour
Salary Scale: Scale B/Universal - Non-exempt Level 4
Details: https://www.lcps.org/compensation

Schedule

Months/Days/Hours: 10 months / 187 days / 7 hours per day