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Assistant - Special Education
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What they do
A Teacher Assistant assists classroom teachers by providing extra individual attention and instruction to students. Helps teachers with recordkeeping, preparation for lessons and activities and supervising students. May work with special education students, or work in a school library or computer lab; may be called teacher aide or paraprofessional.
$34,086 / year median in Tennessee
+10% projected growth
Job Description
1. Administer, score, and record such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students; 2. Operate and care for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes; 3. Distribute and collect workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction; 4. Assist with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips; 5. Check notebooks, correct papers, and supervise testing and makeup work as assigned by the teacher; 6. Work with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills; 7. Assume responsibility for knowing and following the safety rules and proper procedures associated with the responsibilities of the job; 8. Type and duplicate tests, worksheets, and supplementary materials; 9. Assist the teacher in assimilating material for class displays; 10. Document what is completed in the class every day; and 11. Perform other duties as assigned by the Collaborative teacher or the classroom teacher.