Writing assistant vs special education assistant

Differences between writing assistant and special education assistant duties and responsibilities

Writing assistant example responsibilities.

• Provide exceptional knowledge of language, grammar, and composition in order to assist international students to achieve academic excellence.
• Help students correctly format papers according to current APA, MLA, AP, or CMS guidelines.
• Help students in writing at an academic level and in the use of APA style.
• Present and direct workshops on conducting research, peer review, MLA and avoiding plagiarism, and language awareness.
• Tutor both ESL and native speakers in planning, organization, thesis development, grammar, and mechanics of writing.
• Help ESL students better understand reading and writing in English as well as acclimate to the academic environment and the institution.
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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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