Teaching Assistant - Special Education
About the role
The Dobbs Ferry School District seeks a K-12 Special Education Teaching Assistant with proven experience working with students with special needs. Effective approximately September 30, 2026, this is a full time, probationary/tenure track position. The district is focused on building an increasingly inclusive environment through an expansion of its continuum of services in general education and specialized program settings, offering unified sports, and providing professional development including Therapeutic Crisis Intervention training.
Responsibilities
- Provide instructional services to students under general supervision of a certified teacher.
- Work with individual or multiple students with special needs.
- Perform toileting/hygiene tasks in support of students with IEP or 504 plans.
- Provide behavior support, including modeling and implementing evidence-based behavior intervention strategies and helping students with challenging behaviors, ensuring interventions are practiced.
- Collect data on student behavior and skill acquisition.
- Lead or assist in various activities.
- Aid in the development of educational material.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
- Physical demands: regularly required to stand, walk, and sit; climb, squat, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; reach above the head and forward; use hands and fingers to feel or handle objects, tools, or controls, and to talk and hear; occasionally lift and/or push up to 50 pounds.
Requirements
- NYSED Teaching Assistant certification.
- Proven experience working with students with special needs.
Pay
Salary range: $28,550 - $39,505 annually (per CSEA Clerical, Teacher Aide/Teaching Assistants contract). Additional compensation of $4.00 per hour for toileting duties.
Schedule
Full‑time, probationary/tenure track position. Start date: September 16, 2026 (effective approximately September 30, 2026).