Job Summary: Certified Teaching Assistants (CTAs) provide instructional services to students under the general supervision of a Certified Teacher.
Minimum Qualifications:- NYSED Certification as a Level I Teaching Assistant (Must obtain Level III within 4 years of appointment. Recommendations for extension of Level I will only be made if all requirements for Level II have been met except the required work experience).
- Completion of required state workshops, IE. Child Abuse Detection & Reporting, School Violence Prevention, and DASA.
Primary Activities - Work with individual students or groups of students on special instructional projects.
- Provide the teacher with information about students which will assist the teacher in the development of appropriate learning and behavioral experiences.
- Assist students in the use of available instructional resources, and assist in the development of instructional materials.
- Utilize own special skills and abilities by assisting in instructional programs in such areas as: foreign languages, arts, crafts, music and similar subjects.
- Assist in related instructional work as required.
- Assist students with specific health related activities as appropriate.
- Maintains instructional materials and/or manual and electronic files/records (e.g. lessons, attendance, pencils, paper, teaching supplies, etc.) for the purpose of ensuring availability of items, providing written reports, or meeting mandated requirements.
- Performs general clerical tasks for the purpose of helping the teacher get instructional materials ready.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Note: The above description is illustrative of tasks and responsibilities. It is not meant to be all inclusive of every task or responsibility.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities - Ability to carry out instruction furnished in written or oral form.
- Ability to understand, apply and use personal computers and software applications.
- Ability to work with a diverse group of individuals.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality of information regarding students, employees and others.
- Ability to establish a supportive and compassionate relationship with students with special needs.
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with students, staff and others contacted in the course of work.
- Ability to report work orally and in writing to supervisor as required.
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee:- is regularly required to stand, walk, and sit.
- Is regularly required to climb, squat, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and to reach above the head and reach forward.
- Is regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools or controls and to talk and hear.
- Occasionally required to lift and/or push up to 50 pounds.
- Must have specific vision abilities for close vision, distance vision, depth perception and tell the difference between colors
Work Environment - The noise level in the work environment is typical for a school environment.
- Work generally performed indoors with limited outside supervision of students.
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