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TEACHER ASSISTANT-TI-PRE-K ESE

Broward County Public Schools
Fort Lauderdale, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 8 Jul 2025
💰 $42,000/yr($32,000/yr$42,000/yr)

About the role

 

   

Any candidate applying for this position is applying to Broward Estates Early Learning Center.

 

Qualifications:

EDUCATION:  An earned Associates degree from an accredited institution, or at least 60 semester hours of earned college credit from an accredited institution.

OR

EDUCATION:  Standard high school diploma or satisfactory completion of an approved General Educational Development (GED) Testing Program.

REQUIRED:  Successful completion of the Teacher Assisting Curriculum at the designated technical college in the Broward County School District and achieve a passing score on the ParaPro Test, or other officially sanctioned standard tests to demonstrate the ability to assist in instructing reading/language arts, writing, and mathematics; or reading readiness, writing readiness, and mathematics readiness, as appropriate.

 

If additional hours of continuing education are mandated by program funding source, they must be obtained within the required time frame for continuing active employment in the position.

 

PREFERENCES:

EXPERIENCE:  A minimum of two (2) years of demonstrated experience, within the last five (5) years, in working with children preferred.

EDUCATION: Six (6) earned semester hours in the area of Human Growth and Development is preferred. Bilingual skills preferred.

 

ESSENTIAL PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. If assigned to a Pre-K/Pre-School Exceptional Student Education (ESE) classroom with (ESE) students, may provide assistance, as required, with activities of daily living which may include any or all of the following by:

a. assisting with personal hygiene and restroom functions, which may include

diapering or catheterization.

b. providing mobility assistance including lifting, positioning or transferring

student.

c. assisting with activities related to seizure control.

d. assisting with feeding needs, which may include suctioning.

e. assisting with adaptive equipment needs.

f. providing behavioral assistance, which may include utilizing positive crisis

management (PCM) skills.

 

Hourly Rate: $16.40 – $21.91 per hour

 

Calendar: 188B

 

Pay Grade: 13

 

New Hires will be hired at the minimum of the assigned hourly range

Pay Grade: GRADE 13 

 

Work Calendar: 188

Shift Differential (If Applicable) -  / 

 

NOTE: New hires will be hired at the minimum of the assigned salary range

 

To review the salary schedules, please visit the following link: Salary Schedules

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