Teacher Assistant (Special Education)

Full-Time and Permanent; Non-Exempt; 6.5 Hours/Day; 182 Days/Year; 10 Months/Year; Grade: GG

General Responsibilities

This position is responsible for providing assistance to a special education classroom teacher, performing a variety of tasks relating to the physical and instructional needs of students with disabilities in the general or special education setting; assists in the implementation of classroom programs, including self-help and behavior management as well as instruction.

Education and Experience

Requires completion of at least forty-eight (48) college credit hours from an accredited college or university; or must have achieved a score of 455 on the Department of Education Para-Pro exam and some experience working with children. Experience working with special education students in a classroom setting is preferred; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Essential Job Functions

• Provides instructional support to teachers in the daily management and instruction of special education students.
• Requires some knowledge of child growth and development, group interaction, health, safety, and first-aid methods.
• Works with individual and small groups of children to develop fine and gross motor skills.
• Responsible for performing instruction and clerical tasks to relieve teacher of routine activities and to help carry out daily classroom activities.
• May be required to work at various locations with various assignments to include; pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, regular general education classrooms, special education, or computer learning center/lab.
• Performs designated learning tasks with students such as, demonstrating or explaining lessons, prompting student participation, monitoring during tests, and assisting with other instructional tasks.
• May be required to attend to children with various levels of mental and physical disabilities (LD, MR, ED, and PH).
• May serve part-time in an alternative learning class.
• Responsible for operating office equipment and audio-visual equipment.
• Assists in therapeutic crisis intervention.
• Performs a wide variety of monitoring, record keeping, and file maintenance for an accelerated learning program.
• Assists students in physical activities; to include escorting children to the library, playground activities, lunchroom breaks, resource classes, restrooms, and field trips.
• May be required to work one-on-one or with a group of students; to include assisting students with physical and sanitation needs.
• Responsible for monitoring children in the absence of the teacher.
• Requires continuous standing, walking, lifting and physical restraint.
• Work may include noise and/or disruptive student behavior and exposure to student bodily fluids.
• Requires sensitivity to the ways physical and mental disabilities affect the behavior of children.
• Ability to assist in providing a wide variety of stimulating experiences for children to meet their individual, intellectual, and emotional needs.
• Incumbent should be able to lift 50 pounds.
• Ability to effectively communicate with parents, teachers, and administrators.
• Works under the direct supervision of the classroom teacher and administrative personnel according to established policies and procedures.
• Performs additional duties as assigned.

• Position Type: Full-time

Job Categories: Special Education > General Special Education
Instructional Support > Paraprofessional / IA
Special Education > Special Education Assistant
Contact Information

• Amanda Schilling
• 800 E. City Hall Ave
• Norfolk, Virginia 23510

• Phone: (757) 628-3905
• Email: click here