How do they match: Teaching Assistants, Special Education

  • Basic Skills Improvement Program Instructional Aide

  • Assist a preschool, elementary, middle, or secondary school teacher to provide academic, social, or life skills to students who have learning, emotional, or physical disabilities. Serve in a position for which a teacher has primary responsibility for the design and implementation of educational programs and services.

  • Employ special educational strategies or techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, or memory.
  • Instruct students in daily living skills required for independent maintenance and self-sufficiency, such as hygiene, safety, or food preparation.
  • Organize and label materials and display students' work in a manner appropriate for their eye levels and perceptual skills.

  • Teach life skills.