Teaching Assistants, Special Education Career, Salary and Skills
No national wage record is published for this occupation in the current BLS dataset.
Occupation description
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.
O*NET code
25-9043.00
Job zone
3
Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
Experience
None
National salary and employment
Salary data is not available for this occupation in the current BLS dataset.
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Active Listening | 3.88 | 3.38 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 3.75 | 3.38 |
| Speaking | 3.75 | 3.25 |
| Reading Comprehension | 3.62 | 3.50 |
| Monitoring | 3.62 | 3.25 |
| Service Orientation | 3.62 | 3.12 |
| Learning Strategies | 3.62 | 3.62 |
| Instructing | 3.50 | 3.00 |
| Critical Thinking | 3.38 | 3.50 |
| Writing | 3.12 | 3.12 |
Typical tasks
- Provide assistance to students with special needs.
- Teach socially acceptable behavior, employing techniques such as behavior modification or positive reinforcement.
- Supervise students in classrooms, halls, cafeterias, school yards, and gymnasiums, or on field trips.
- Provide students with disabilities with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
- Carry out therapeutic regimens, such as behavior modification and personal development programs, under the supervision of special education instructors, psychologists, or speech-language pathologists.
- Tutor and assist children individually or in small groups to help them master assignments and to reinforce learning concepts presented by teachers.
- Employ special educational strategies or techniques during instruction to improve the development of sensory- and perceptual-motor skills, language, cognition, or memory.
- Take class attendance and maintain attendance records.
Technology
- Appletree
- Automate the Schools ATS
- Blackboard software
- Children's educational software
- ClassDojo
- Email software
- Flipgrid
- Google Classroom
- Google Meet
- Hand held spell checkers
- High School Scheduling and Transcript HSST
- Kahoot!
- Loom
- Microsoft Excel
Related careers
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- Career/Technical Education Teachers, PostsecondaryNational median $63,820
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary SchoolNational median $66,270
- Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and AdvisorsNational median $64,330
- Teaching Assistants, PostsecondaryNational median $42,910
- Education Teachers, PostsecondaryNational median $75,350
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle SchoolNational median $65,030
- Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical EducationNational median $72,040
Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.