Reading assistant vs special education assistant

Differences between reading assistant and special education assistant duties and responsibilities

Reading assistant example responsibilities.

• Manage a phonetic/whole language curriculum for middle/high school students with various learning differences.
• Maintain knowledge of SSA organizational structure.
• Attend IEP meetings per parental request.
• Work with ESL students to improve learning English.
• Maintain statistics, organize literature, assist students with research and references.
• Assist in the classroom with attendance, grading, and constructing PowerPoint lectures.
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Special education assistant example responsibilities.

• Perform responsible human support and paraprofessional work assisting classroom teacher or other professionals, achieve institution objectives.
• Implement behavioral plans design by IEP team for students with behavior disorders or other learning disabilities
• Accompany students to special classes (art, music, PE) and on field trips.
• Complete Medicaid forms on a daily basis.
• Assist special needs children with independent skills and work tasks, fill out Medicaid paperwork.
• Provide one on one attention to pre-k partner child with multiple activities while promoting language and developmental skills.
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