About the role
SPED Intensive Support Teacher Assistant (Grades: EC-5) -(RTP20260730-040)
Description
- Help teacher prepare instructional materials and classroom displays
- Help maintain a neat and orderly classroom and prepare classroom according to student needs
- Help with inventory, care and maintenance of equipment
- Help teacher keep administrative records and prepare required reports
- Provide orientation and assistance to substitute teachers
- Assist students with physical disabilities according to their needs, including transferring to and from wheelchairs, lifting or positioning
- Assist students with physical needs and personal care, including feeding, bathroom needs and personal hygiene
- Assist with classroom curriculum
- Help manage behavior of students which includes intervening in crisis situations and restraining disruptive or dangerous student behavior as needed
- Assume responsibility for learning and adapting to each student's special medical, physical, communicative and emotional needs
- Work with individual students or small groups to develop motor skills and conduct instructional exercises assigned by teacher
- Help supervise students throughout the school day, inside and outside the classroom which includes lunchroom, bus and playground
- Keep teacher informed of special needs or problems of individual students
- Maintain confidentiality
- Participate in staff development training programs, faculty meetings and special events as assigned
- Perform all other tasks and duties as assigned
- Regular and punctual attendance at the worksite is required for this position
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Travel throughout the district is integral to this job. A remote working environment /alternate work arrangement is not an option for campus-based employees/campus-based positions because regular and punctual attendance at the worksite and performing all duties at the worksite are essential job duties for all campus-based personnel.
Qualifications
- Accredited Senior High School Diploma or equivalent (U.S.A. equivalency), plus one of the following: Associate degree, 48 college credit hours, pass an academic assessment
- Paraprofessional certificate required from State Board of Certification
- Successful completion of a specific training program for teacher assistants or six months of knowledge and skills acquired through work experience preferred
- Demonstrated general knowledge of child growth/development and behavior characteristics
- Demonstrated ability to work with people from diverse ethnic groups
- Demonstrated organizational and interpersonal skills required to meet the goals of the position
- Demonstrated initiative and a willingness to follow verbal and written instructions
- Demonstrated effective communication skills both in oral and written form
- Demonstrated ability to work with children with disabilities
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred
- Demonstrated flexibility to cope with the challenges of a rapidly changing world
- Demonstrated willingness to remain current with the latest developments in the profession
Work Locations: Withers Elementary 3959 NORTHAVEN ROAD Dallas 75229
Job: Teacher Assistant-Physically Handicapped
Full-time
Minimum Salary: 31,282.00
Median Salary: 39113.00
Job Posting: Jul 30, 2026
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