Teaching Assistant - Special Education - Richmond Campus

We are seeking a dedicated and energetic professional to support students by implementing daily educational programs and behavior treatment plans in a classroom setting. This role involves delivering one-on-one and group instruction, reinforcing positive behaviors, collecting and graphing data, and assisting with IEP-driven goals. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, compassionate, and committed to helping students build essential academic, social, and life skills. Responsibilities include facilitating instructional activities, monitoring behavior plans, completing daily communication logs, supporting community-based instruction, and maintaining a collaborative and professional classroom environment.

Essential Core Responsibilities

Instruction, IEP Implementation, and Facilitation of Instructional Activities

- Conducts instruction (e.g., one-on-one, small group, whole group) to teach students new skills in a variety of environments

- Reinforces appropriate behavior of students and corrects incorrect responses appropriately

- Provides instruction at pace appropriate for student and curricular procedure/sequence, completing target level of learn units presented daily and weekly

- Records daily learn unit responses for the students as directed and graphs learn unit data and related information daily

- After achieving criterion on prerequisite training modules, makes data-based decisions to bring instructional needs to the attention of the teacher or program supervisor

- Meets learn unit and learn-units-to-criterion objectives as outlined by the program supervisor or classroom teacher

- Assists students in tasks designed to master goals and objectives from the IEP

- Assist with completion of educational, preference, and behavior assessments, under the guidance of the classroom teacher or program supervisor

- Facilitates participation in group activities, keeping students on-task

- Physically assists clients with challenging tasks (i.e. toileting, feeding, walking, cutting and pasting)

- Facilitates community-based instruction by adhering to and implementing school-specific procedures off school premises
Daily Activities

- Writes notes in daily home/school communication log for each student according to standards outlined in professional writing trainings under the supervision of the classroom teacher

- Follows posted classroom schedule of student/staff pairing, including following pick-up and drop-off schedule daily

- Gathers and/or generates materials under the supervision of the classroom teacher

- With all other team members, completes all cleaning and classroom assignments on a daily basis

- Works on and completes modules on a schedule provided by the program supervisor or classroom teacher

- Completes assigned trainings and implements procedures as outlined in trainings or in training materials

- Works harmoniously on assigned team, engaging professionally with all internal and external consumers
Monitor and Record Behavior

- Implements and monitors student behavior treatment plan to address maladaptive behaviors

- Responds to targeted behaviors as outlined in plan and/or as directed by a behavior analyst supervisor

- Collects and records daily data on occurrence of behaviors according to the schedule or guidelines outlined

- Assists in maintaining updated records and graphs related to social behaviors through event recording, interval recording, duration recording, etc. for behavior treatment plans and IEP objectives

- Shares responsibility with other staff in updating cumulative treatment records reflecting students current level of performance
Training

- Models all Faison handbook policies and procedures as well as instructional and behavior management related competencies throughout the work day

- Implements staff training protocols with Teaching Assistants, accurately utilizing any staff training resources (such as training handbooks, module assignments, and hands on training sequences)
Requirements

Experience Requirements

- Ability to work with children with autism and their families

- Ability to work on a team

- Ability to independently follow instructions to complete assigned tasks

- Ability to provide consistent behavioral feedback on educational objectives

- Ability to work in a diverse environment

- Previous experience working with children

- Previous experience with autism preferred, using the tactics of Applied Behavior Analysis

- Ability to serve as a consistent role model for other staff members
Education Requirements

- High school diploma or equivalent required

- Bachelor’s degree preferred
Essential Physical Requirements

- Lift 50 pounds (and keep back straight while doing so)

- Bend at all joints fluently

- Move in and out of and maintain a kneeling position for up to five minutes

- Reach in all directions

- Grasp using both hands

- Move quickly in both confined and open spaces to avoid safety issues

- Run in order to retrieve an individual who is moving quickly away from staff

- Maintain balance while lowering to a half squat position