Child Development Associate Jobs in Dandridge, TN

NOTE:  This job description is divided

into four categories as listed below:

TEACHER ASSISTANT INSTRUCTIONAL (pages 2-4)

TEACHER ASSISTANT PRESCHOOL (pages 5-7)

TEACHER ASSISTANT -

SPECIAL EDUCATION EXTENDED RESOURCE (pages 8-10)

TEACHER ASSISTANT -

ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL) (pages 11-13)

TITLE                                TEACHER ASSISTANT - INSTRUCTIONAL

QUALIFICATIONS

1. Minimum high school diploma or G.E.D.

2. 48 semester hours of college credit or score of 456 on ParaPro Assessment 

3. Meets health and physical requirements

4. Nonviolent Crisis Intervention/Restraint Training

JOB GOAL

To aid teachers, secretaries, and clerical personnel when needed

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

1. Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students

2. Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes

3. Distributes and collects workbooks, paper, and other materials for instruction

4. Assists with supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips

5. Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and makeup work as assigned by the teacher

6. Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills

7. Assumes responsibility for knowing and following the safety rules and proper procedures associated with the responsibilities of the job

8. Checks and records attendance

9. Arranges bulleting boards

10. Types and duplicates tests, worksheets, and supplementary materials

11. Assists in supervising children in lunchroom, playground, and loading buses

12. Assists the teacher in assimilating materials for class displays

13. Performs other duties as assigned

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This job may require lifting of objects that exceed 50 lbs., or the average weight of a child, if assigned to elementary grades, with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 25 lbs.  Other physical demands that may be required are as follows:

1. Pushing

2. Pulling

3. Climbing

4. Stooping

5. Kneeling

6. Crawling

7. Reaching

8. Talking

9. Hearing

10. Seeing

VOCATIONAL PREPARATION

The required vocational preparation may come from any of the following:

1. Vocational education

2. Apprentice training

3. On-the-job training

4. Essential experience

TEMPERAMENT (Personal traits)

1. Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure

2. Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an activity

3. Adaptability to generalizing, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria

4. Adaptability to dealing with students

CAPACITY AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTS

Specific capacities and abilities may be required of an individual in order to learn or adequately perform a task or job duty.

1. Intelligence:  Ability to understand instructions and underlying principles; ability to reason and make judgments

2. Verbal:  Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with then

3. Manual Dexterity:  Ability to move the fingers and manipulate small objects with the fingers rapidly and accurately

4. Form Perception:  To make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures

5. Color Discrimination:  Ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color

WORK CONDITIONS

Normal working environment

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT

1. 185-day contract

2. Teacher assistant salary scale

IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR

Classroom teacher and/or principal

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position.  They are not intended to be a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so assigned.

Adopted 07/01/93

Revised 11/2010

Revised 03/21/17

TITLE                                TEACHER ASSISTANT - PRESCHOOL

QUALIFICATIONS

1. Minimum high school diploma or G.E.D.

2. Early childhood education experience (preference given for Child Development Associate certification or associate's degree in early childhood education or active pursuit of either) 

3. Meets health and physical requirements

4. Nonviolent Crisis Intervention/Restraint Training

JOB GOAL

To aid preschool teachers

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

1. Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students

2. Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes

3. Distributes and collects workbooks, paper, and other materials for instruction

4. Assists with supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips

5. Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and makeup work as assigned by the teacher

6. Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills

7. Assumes responsibility for knowing and following the safety rules and proper procedures associated with the responsibilities of the job

8. Checks and records attendance

9. Arranges bulleting boards

10. Types and duplicates tests, worksheets, and supplementary materials

11. Assists in supervising children in lunchroom, playground, and loading buses

12. Assists the teacher in assimilating materials for class displays

13. Performs other duties as assigned

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This job may require lifting of objects that exceed 50 lbs., or the average weight of a preschool child, with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 25 lbs.  Other physical demands that may be required are as follows:

1. Pushing

2. Pulling

3. Climbing

4. Stooping

5. Kneeling

6. Crawling

7. Reaching

8. Talking

9. Hearing

10. Seeing

VOCATIONAL PREPARATION

The required vocational preparation may come from any of the following:

1. Vocational education

2. Apprentice training

3. On-the-job training

4. Essential experience

TEMPERAMENT (Personal traits)

1. Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure

2. Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an activity

3. Adaptability to generalizing, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria

4. Adaptability to dealing with students

CAPACITY AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTS

Specific capacities and abilities may be required of an individual in order to learn or adequately perform a task or job duty.

1. Intelligence: Ability to understand instructions and underlying principles; ability to reason and make judgments

2. Verbal: Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with then

3. Manual Dexterity: Ability to move the fingers and manipulate small objects with the fingers rapidly and accurately

4. Form Perception: To make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures

5. Color Discrimination: Ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color

WORK CONDITIONS

Normal working environment

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT

1. 185-day contract; 5-hour workday

2. Teacher assistant salary scale prorated from 7.5-hour to 5-hour workday

IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR

Classroom teacher and/or principal

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position.  They are not intended to be a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so assigned.

Adopted 07/01/93

Revised 11/2010

Revised 03/21/17

TITLE                                TEACHER ASSISTANT -

                                      SPECIAL EDUCATION EXTENDED RESOURCE

QUALIFICATIONS

1. Minimum high school diploma or G.E.D.

2. 48 semester hours of college credit or score of 456 on ParaPro Assessment 

3. Meets health and physical requirements

4. Nonviolent Crisis Intervention/Restraint Training

JOB GOAL

To assist teachers in giving specialized academic and physical training to students with disabilities

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

1. Maintains student records

2. Performs instructional activities

3. Administers diagnostic tools

4. Prepares the classroom and organizes instructional materials and equipment

5. Monitors the classroom when the teacher must attend staff meetings, provides consultation, etc.

6. Attends in-service and faculty meetings when requested by principal or supervisor of special services

7. Adheres to the established work hours

8. Maintains confidential information in a professional manner

9. Performs other routinized duties as assigned by the building-level administrator, subject to approval of the supervisor of special services

10. Assists students with toileting, catheterization, feeding, and other self-help activities as required

11. Changes or helps spina bifida students

12. Supervises students on bus trips as required

13. Assists with bus duty

14. Assists with lunch duty

15. Assists with disabled students at lunch or in regular class

16. Helps with specific regular classes in which extended resource students are involved

17. Performs other duties as assigned

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This job may require lifting of objects that exceed 50 lbs., or the average weight of a child, if assigned to elementary grades, with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 25 lbs.  Other physical demands that may be required are as follows:

1. Pushing

2. Pulling

3. Climbing

4. Stooping

5. Kneeling

6. Crawling

7. Reaching

8. Talking

9. Hearing

10. Seeing

VOCATIONAL PREPARATION

The required vocational preparation may come from any of the following:

1. Vocational education

2. Apprentice training

3. On-the-job training

4. Essential experience

TEMPERAMENT (Personal traits)

1. Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure

2. Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an activity

3. Adaptability to generalizing, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria

4. Adaptability to dealing with students

CAPACITY AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTS

Specific capacities and abilities may be required of an individual in order to learn or adequately perform a task or job duty.

1. Intelligence: Ability to understand instructions and underlying principles; ability to reason and m...