Teaching Assistant - Special Education

Salary/Pay Scale: $28,550 - $39,505 (Annual wage per contract CSEA Clerical, Teacher Aide/Teaching Assistants)
Start Date: September 16, 2026
Job Description:

The Dobbs Ferry School District seeks a K-12 Special Education Teaching Assistant with proven experience working with students with special needs. Effective approximately September 30, 2026, this is a full time, probationary/tenure track position. Minimum Requirement: NYSED Teaching Assistant certification. Salary commensurate with experience and on par with the CSEA Clerical, Teacher Aide/Teaching Assistant contract. Additional compensation in the amount of $4.00 per hour for toileting duties. For more information, visit our website at www.dfsd.org.

Description:

As per NYSED teaching assistants provide instructional services to students under general supervision of a certified teacher. These positions require working with individual or multiple students with special needs, and may include performing toileting/hygiene tasks in support of students with IEP or 504 plan; Behavior Support, including modeling and implementing evidence-based behavior intervention strategies and helping students with challenging behaviors, ensuring interventions are practiced; collect data on student behavior and skill acquisition.

Duties may vary depending upon student-specific needs. The successful candidate will lead or assist in various activities, aid in the development of educational material, and perform other related duties as assigned.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk and sit; is regularly required to climb, squat, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; to reach above the head and reach forward; is regularly required to use hands and fingers to feel or handle objects, tools, or controls, and to talk and hear; is occasionally required to lift and/or push up to 50 pounds.

About our Special Education Program

We are focused on building an increasingly inclusive environment through an expansion of our continuum of services in general education and specialized program settings, through the ongoing development of exciting student opportunities including unified sports; and by offering expansive professional development including Therapeutic Crisis Intervention training for our instructional and support staff. We are seeking exceptional candidates to join our team in this work.

Application:

Apply via OLAS by September 7, 2026. Candidates invited to interview will be asked to make an application here via Applitrack.

The Dobbs Ferry School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against race, religion, ethnicity, age, gender and disability in the educational programs and activities it operates.

The selected applicants will be subject to a fingerprint supported criminal history background check in accordance with SAVE legislation effective July 1, 2001.