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Teaching Assistants, Special Education

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.
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  • Work Activities

      Skills

      Abilities

      Knowledge

      Education

      Education
      Some college, no degree
      Work Experience
      No work experience
      Training
      No on-the-job training

      Pay

      Washington Annual Salary
      47210/yr

      Washington Employment Trends

      Currently Employed
      46,960
      Yearly Projected Openings
      6340

      Personality

      Social: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking. They do well at jobs that need:

        Tools

        • Adaptive communication switches for the physically challenged
        • Balance or gross motor equipment
        • Board games
        • Braille devices for the physically challenged
        • Building blocks
        • Cassette players or recorders
        • Childrens science kits
        • Compact disk players or recorders
        • Computer mouse
        • Desktop calculator
        • Desktop computers
        • Digital camcorders or video cameras
        • Digital video disk players or recorders
        • Enteral feeding administration sets
        • Game pads or joy sticks
        • Intercom systems
        • Keyboards
        • Laminators
        • Laser printers
        • Letter or symbol boards for the physically challenged
        • Liquid crystal display projector
        • Medical gas cylinders or related devices
        • Medical or surgical suction tubings
        • Microphones
        • Mobile medical services first aid kits
        • Notebook computers
        • Overhead projectors
        • Page turners for the physically challenged
        • Personal computers
        • Sand or water tables or activity centers
        • Scanners
        • Tactile toys
        • Telecommunication devices TDD or teletypewriters TTY for the physically challenged
        • Televisions
        • Touch screen monitors
        • Video cassette players or recorders
        • Visual presenters
        • Voice synthesizers for the physically challenged
        • Wheelchairs
        • Writing aids for the physically challenged

        Technology

        • Calendar and scheduling software
        • Computer based training software
        • Data base user interface and query software
        • Desktop communications software
        • Device drivers or system software
        • Electronic mail software
        • Internet browser software
        • Multi-media educational software
        • Office suite software
        • Presentation software
        • Project management software
        • Spell checkers
        • Spreadsheet software
        • Video conferencing software
        • Video creation and editing software
        • Word processing software