Teacher Aides

Teacher Aides

The Ulster BOCES Center for Innovative Teaching & Learning (CITL) Student-Based Programs is seeking Teacher Aides (1:1 supplementary aides) for full-time, 10-month positions for the 2026-2027 school year. Experience working with special needs children preferred. Fingerprinting required.

All Civil Service laws, rules and regulations apply.

Civil Service Classification: Non-Competitive. Merit and fitness examination does not apply.

Salary: $34,238.00

Ulster BOCES provides programs for students ages five through twenty-one who are identified as needing specialized programs and/or supports according to their Individualized Education Program (IEP). Special Education programs are offered at Ulster BOCES sites in Port Ewen, NY and in leased classrooms in component school districts. They have been developed and offered to meet the specific needs of our students in order to assist them in realizing their potential to achieve both academically and socially.

The following programs are available in Special Class configurations of 12:1:1, 8:1:1, 8:1:2, 6:1:2 and 4:1:2. All classes are staffed by a full-time Special Education teacher and either one or two teaching assistants (additional supplementary 1:1 aides may be requested for individual students as per Committee on Special Education recommendations). Multiple programs are available.

Ulster BOCES offers regionally competitive salary and benefits (see the Ulster BOCES Teaching Assistants' and Aides' Organization contract at for details).

Specific duties:

• Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning initially introduced by teacher or teaching assistant.
• Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests and abilities.
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
• Distributes and collects workbooks, papers and other materials for instruction.
• Guides independent study, enrichment work and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
• Assists with the supervision of students during recess, lunch, emergency drills, assemblies and field trips.
• Checks and records student attendance.
• Assists with lunch, snack and cleanup routines.
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• Assumes other duties as assigned by the Supervisor.

Work schedule: 10 month schedule, September through June Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. - 2:40 p.m.