Instructional Teaching Assistant 2025-2026 school year

Qualifications:

• High school diploma with successful passing grade on the Para Pro exam or two year degree or 60 hours of college credit from an accredited college or university.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Prior work with children.
• Knowledge of computers.
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

Reports To: Principal

Job Goal

To assist the teacher to achieve teaching objectives by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole.

Performance 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 or instructional materials assigned by teacher.
• Guides independent study enrichment work and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
• Guides students with group activities such as drill work and reading aloud.
• Supervises testing and makeup work as assigned by the classroom teacher.
• Reads to students listens to students read and participates in other forms of oral or written communication.
• Alerts the 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 the absence of the teacher.
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers.
• Participates in inservice training programs as assigned.
• Other duties as assigned.

Specific Job Requirements

• Possess and utilize excellent team building skills.
• Accept delegated responsibilities willingly.
• Able to work under occasional stress.
• Demonstrate a high level of initiative in job performance.

Knowledge

• Education and TrainingKnowledge of teaching and instruction for individuals and groups.
• English LanguageKnowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words rules of composition and grammar.

Skills

• Active ListeningGiving full attention to what other people are saying taking time to understand the points being made asking questions as appropriate.
• Critical ThinkingUsing logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Learning StrategiesSelecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
• MonitoringMonitoring/assessing performance of yourself and other individuals to make improvements or take corrective action.
• MathematicsUsing mathematics to solve problems.
• Reading ComprehensionUnderstanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Judgment and Decision MakingConsidering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Time ManagementManaging ones own time and the time of others.
• Desktop Computer SkillsUsing a computer application to type text insert pictures format edit print save and retrieve word processing document.

Work Context

• Requires standing.
• Requires walking.
• Job tasks are performed in close physical proximity to other people.
• Requires working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions and working outdoors.

Terms of Employment:

182 days per school year; Salary based on District Scale for Teacher Assistants.

Evaluation:

Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Boards policy on Evaluation of Support Services Personnel.