
Instructional Aide
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Job overview
The Instructional Aide works with assigned students individually and in small groups throughout the school day, supporting instructional exercises, tutoring, behavior management, and personal care. The aide adapts to students’ medical, physical, communicative, and emotional needs, assists the teacher with classroom materials, student data, records, and assessments, and may supervise the classroom when the teacher is absent.
Skills & qualifications
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Full job description
Work with individual student to conduct instructional exercises assigned by the teacher.Assist assigned student throughout school day, inside and outside classroom.Provide approved behavior management and intervention. This includes intervening in crisis situations and restraining disruptive or student behavior as needed.Tutor student(s) as assigned.Keep the teacher informed of any special needs or problems of the student.Help students take care of physical needs and personal care including feeding, bathroom needs, and personal hygiene.Assume responsibility for learning and adapting to each students special medical, physical, communicative, and emotional needs.Work with assigned student and/or small groups to develop motor skills and conduct instructional exercises assigned by teacher.Assist the teacher in preparing instructional materials and classroom displaysAssist the teacher in collecting and maintaining student data, administrative records and preparing required reports. Assist with assessment as assigned.Uphold and enforce school rules, administrative regulations, and state and local board policyProvide supervision of the classroom in the absence of the teacher. Provide orientation and assistance to substitute teachers when needed.Participate in staff development training programs, faculty meetings, and special events, as required.Other duties as assigned.
How this job compares
Set against the 460 open Teaching Assistant jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$34–39K/yr34 salary ranges
- US median$18–20/hr215 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 28 open Teaching Assistant jobs in Texas and 460 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (this employer)13 open
- University of Texas Rio Grande Valley7 open
- AMARILLO ISD3 open
- Experience
- Teaching Assistant postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (31 postings).
- Education
- 22 of the 460 open Teaching Assistant jobs (5%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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