Teacher Assistant Special Education Autism SY 2025-2026

FullTime and Permanent; NonExempt;6.5 Hours/Day; 182 Days/Year; 10 Months/Year; GradeGG

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. The incumbent in this position also assists in the implementation of classroom programs including selfhelp and behavior management as well as instruction.

Education and Experience

Requires completion of at leastsixty 60 college credit hours from an accredited college or university; or must have achieved a score of 455 on the Department of Education ParaPro exam. At least two years of experience working with children; to include experience working with special education students in a classroom setting.

Note: All applicants internal and external must attach a completed resume for review.

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 firstaid 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; prekindergarten 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 parttime in an alternative learning class.
• Responsible for operating office equipment and audiovisual 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 oneonone 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.