Teachers Assistant - Temporary
Teachers Assistant - Temporary
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Job Description
This TA position is temporary. It will be roughly 12 weeks of employment from midJune until late September.
The Preschool Classroom Teachers Assistant will be responsible for classroom activities and onetoone audition speech and language work as a cooperative teachers Assistant working with the Preschool Classroom teacher speech/language pathologist and Director of Clarke Florida. The classroom may have as many as 5 to 8 children with hearingimpairments.
Responsibilities:
- To create an environment which fosters independence confidence creativity respect for materials and the people in the environment and is conducive to enjoyment in learning.
- To facilitate childrens interaction with a curriculum which is childcentered based on basic principles of child development and will provide children with problemsolving skills and a foundation for acquiring knowledge which is more contentrelated in the elementary years.
- To provide a comfortable supportive environment for parents in which they are respected encouraged to observe their children and supported in their efforts to parent their hearingimpaired children.
- To observe children in the classroom and record information related to all aspects of the childs developmental profile to be used later in reports.
- To maximize opportunities for auditory and language learning in the classroom.
- To facilitate childrens communication in the classroom and ensure carryover of activities between the classroom and individualized sessions.
- The role of the classroom Teachers Assistant is primarily to assist the classroom teacher with facilitating and observing in the classroom.
- To engage individual and small groups of students on a daily basis in activities that contributes to the development of auditory and spoken language skills.
- To assist Preschool Teacher with preparing materials for the classroom at the beginning of the program and to assist in reorganizing the classroom at the end of the school day.
- To assist Preschool Teacher with playground supervision and indoor supervision of playtime during inclement weather.
Qualifications necessary for this position include
- an educational background and experience in early childhood education
- training in auditory/oral education of hearingimpaired children and/or experience in parent counseling is preferred
- High School graduate and experience with children required
- Bachelor studies in Early Childhood Education preferred
- Day care courses are accepted
Title IX Notice of Nondiscrimination
Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech does not discriminate on the basis of sex in admission and administration of its educational programs or activities or employment. Clarke is required by Title IX and its implementing regulations at 34 C.F.R. Part 106 not to discrimination on the basis of sex in admission administration of its educational programs or activities or employment. Inquiries concerning the application of Title IX and its implementing regulations at 34 C.F.R. Part 106 to Clarke may be referred to Clarkes Title IX CoordinatorAndrea Harkins CHRO 45 Round Hill Road Northampton MA 01060 413.582.1155 or the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights at 400 Maryland Avenue SW Washington DC 20202 telephone number.
Employment Type
Full-Time
