# K-5 Teaching Assistant/PARA (26-27 SY)

**Company**: Challenge Preparatory Charter School
**Location**: Queens, NY
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: Full-time
**Salary**: USD 45,000-50,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

Challenge Preparatory Charter School seeks a K-5 Teaching Assistant/PARA to join our team. As a Teaching Assistant, you will help deliver exceptional instruction and assess student growth. You are dedicated to constant learning and proactively provide academic and cultural support to your school and team.

## Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Work with small groups of students to assist in reaching IEP goals

- Teach, review, and reinforce academic content

- Keep accurate & organized records of student information

- Assist in classroom set-up and logistics

- Support in student behavioral management and de-escalating challenging student behaviors

- Collaborate with families and staff to support student learning

- Ensure the safety of students at all times

- Supervise students in and out of the classroom as needed

- Administrative, task-based support for teachers and operations staff

- Additional responsibilities to meet the needs of our students

## Skills, Qualifications, and/or Competencies Required:

- Dedicated to working in communities that have historically been underserved and under-resourced

- Committed to thoughtfully engaging in identity work necessary to take a culturally responsive approach to pedagogy and relationship-building with students and colleagues

- Exceptional level of patience and focus

- Strong classroom management skills

- Classroom presence

- Detail-oriented and highly organized

- Bachelor’s degree preferred

- Teaching Assistant Certification required

## Benefits:

- Competitive Salary: USD 45,000-50,000 per year

- Paid Time Off

- 403b plan with a matching 3% contribution

- Medical

- Dental

- Vision

- Health Savings Account

## Skills

### Required
- classroom management
- student support
- record keeping
- communication

### Nice to have
- Teaching Assistant Certification
- Bachelor's degree

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