What are the responsibilities and job description for the Teaching Assistant position at Fort Madison Community School District?
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Scores and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
- Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
- Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on systematic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
- Guides independent study and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
- Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and makeup work, as assigned by the teacher.
- Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and story telling.
- Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
- Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
- Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as it is expected of fully licensed teachers.
- Participates in in-service training programs, as assigned.
- Provide IEP service for students with IQs below 40 under the supervision of and S.E. teacher.
- Feed students or supervise meal time.
- Acquires appropriate CDL; must pass written test within 30 calendar days and the driving test within 60 calendar days. (CDC, ELP, and B.E.S.T. aides only).
- Provide physical contact as necessary to move the non-ambulatory and to restrain aggressive, hostile, physically threatening behaviors.
- Provide custodial care involving contact with urine, feces and blood.
- Assists with other duties as directed.