Teacher Assistant

at  Westport Community Schools

TA Preschool/PreKMACTeacher assistant/student(s) ratio subject to change during school year. REPORTS TO: Principal, District Supervisor and/or Special Education Coordinator(s)JOB GOAL: To assist the Principal and teachers monitoring student activities by working with both groups of students and individuals to maintain a safe, positive, and productive learning environment in the school. To help them achieve the skill level of the class as a whole.PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES: 1.Provides academic and social emotional support to student.2.Participates with teacher in daily and long range lesson and classroom activity planning.3.Assists teachers in devising special strategies for reinforcing learning, based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.4.Conduct learning exercises with small groups of children.5.Provides students with tutorial assistance when appropriate.6.Alerts classroom teachers to needs and concerns of individual children.7.Helps maintain individual records for each child.8.Assists teachers in maintaining effective work and study environments.9.Assists with the supervision of children during regular play and lunch periods.10.Serves as a source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of regular teachers.11.Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully certified teachers.12.Participates in appropriate in service training programs.13.Accompanies and assists Special Education students attending regular classes.14.Responsible for carrying out IEP tasks that allow students to meet their IEP goals (Tasks may include behavior, social, academic or self-help interventions that allow student to function in the school setting).15.Assists students with equipment/instructional materials.16.Administers and scores diagnostic tests as recommended by teachers.17. May assist with activities of daily living.18.
May require toileting.19. May require lifting.20.Perform reasonable professional tasks or duties as may be required by the Superintendent of Schools, Director of Special Education and/or Building Principal.PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the major responsibilities of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individual with disabilities to perform major functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk, and hear; use hands to finger, handle, or operate tools, objects, or controls; reach with hands and arms.
The employee is occasionally required to walk, stoop, or kneel. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds without assistance and more with assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus. The position requires the ability to operate a computer keyboard and standard office equipment at efficient speed.
LANGUAGE SKILLS: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language. Ability to read and interpret documents such as rules, policies, instructions, correspondence, and procedures. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively to employees, students, and the general public.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the major functions of this position. The position requires an individual to work inside a classroom setting where noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: As per collective bargaining agreement between the Westport School Committee and AFSCME Council 93, Local 2667.EVALUATION: Evaluation will be in accordance with district policy and collective bargaining agreements.
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