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Position Type: K-12/Certified Teaching Assistant Date Posted: 10/2/2024 Location: Mildred E Strang Middle School Date Available: 10/08/2024 Closing Date: Until Filled Additional Information: Show/Hide CERTIFIED TEACHING ASSISTANT Minimum Starting Range = $18.93 - $25.18 Job Title: Certified Teaching Assistant Job Category: CTA/TA Contract Department/Group: Job Description Job Summary: Certified Teaching Assistants (CTAs) provide instructional services to students under the general supervision of a Certified Teacher. Minimum Qualifications: * NYSD 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. * Abilty 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.