Exceptional Children TA — Supporting Student Success

Bogue Sound Elementary School; Newport (NC); On-site; USD 19,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Bogue Sound Elementary School in Newport, North Carolina is seeking an Exceptional Children Teacher Assistant to support the classroom and instructional program.

The position requires an Associate degree or 48 college credits and may require a NC School Bus Driver License. Starting salary is $17.05 per hour, with ten-month, at-will, non-exempt terms. Immediate starting date and duties include assisting with student learning and supervision.

Qualifications

• Ability to maintain confidentiality of student information.
• Ability to follow detailed written and oral instructions.
• Working knowledge of effective methods of dealing with children.
• General knowledge of adapting instruction and tools for students with special needs.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, students and parents.

Responsibilities

• Administers scores and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
• Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on an understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
• Helps students master equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
• Distributes and collects workbooks, papers and other materials for instruction.
• Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
• Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
• Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up to date.
• Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and storytelling.
• Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communications with students.
• Assists students in the library or media center.
• Checks notebooks, corrects papers and supervises testing and make up work, as assigned by the teacher.
• Checks and records student attendance.
• Collects and records collection of money.
• Helps students with their clothing.
• Assists with lunch, snack and cleanup routines.
• Assists with wash-up and toilet routines.
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in absence of the regular teacher.
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
• Participates in professional development programs, as assigned.

Skills

Confidentiality

Instructional support

Communication skills

Adaptation for special needs

Education

Associate degree / 48 credits

Tools

School Bus Driver License

Job description

Bogue Sound Elementary School in Newport, North Carolina is seeking an Exceptional Children Teacher Assistant to support the classroom and instructional program.

The position requires an Associate degree or 48 college credits and may require a NC School Bus Driver License. Starting salary is $17.05 per hour, with ten-month, at-will, non-exempt terms. Immediate starting date and duties include assisting with student learning and supervision.