Teaching Assistant - Residential

Our dedicated classroom staff, support teams, and clinicians offer a host of services in a team environment where we strive to meet each child’s unique needs. Together with parents, we help our children become better learners, understand their feelings, and change their behaviors.

Catholic Charities of Baltimore, Villa Maria School is currently seeking a Teaching Assistant-Residential assists in the care and education of severely emotionally disabled children within the Residential Treatment facility and within the Villa Maria School system. Within the residence, assists in supervising and helping children with before school tasks (including wakeup, dressing, personal hygiene, and breakfast, as well as all residential activities (meals, games, trips, etc.) on school holidays. Within the school, the Residential Teaching Assistant (RTA) assists in supervising children, supporting the teacher in classroom activities, and providing individual and small-group instruction as directed. The RTA escorts children within and between the residence and Villa Maria School. The work schedule is Mon-Fri 7am-3:00pm.

Villa Maria School is a 12 month program that provides educational and clinical services for children with significant emotional, behavioral, and learning challenges. We offer multiple programs serving students from kindergarten through 8th grade in small classrooms (up to nine students) who are experiencing emotional, behavioral and learning challenges such that their local school system refers them to VMS for placement. 

• →Assists teachers in the classroom by helping with the implementation of class lesson plans and providing individual or small-group instruction as directed to ensure that curriculum and IEP goals are met.
• →Serves as substitute for absent teachers as assigned. 
• →Serves as a positive role model for children while engaging them in and supervising them during a variety of activities. 
• →Escorts children within and between buildings and to and from various appointments to always ensure adequate supervision of children. Includes driving children for appointments, field trips, etc.
• →Provides crisis intervention including recognizing and deescalating problem and provide resolution, 
• →Contacts teachers, parents, therapists, and counselors to effectively communicate information regarding children's progress.
• →Supports classroom and /or a specific child as 1:1 coverage.
• → Performs other duties as assigned.

• Requires effective childcare skills including nurturing, patience, consistency, and ability to apply effective discipline and behavior management techniques. Requires the capacity to relate to severely emotionally disabled children in a sensitive, understanding, and insightful manner.
• Requires ability to assess problem situations and apply the most effective yet least restrictive intervention within established therapeutic goals.
• Requires the ability to acquire and maintain TCI certification in order to demonstrated continued compliance with the established TCI competencies.
• Requires the ability to utilize computer systems and software necessary to perform position functions.
• Requires the ability to work effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.

• Requires ability to stand/walk/throughout the School building and residence.
• Will be exposed to resistant or aggressive client behavior requiring ability to implement crisis intervention and therapeutic holds.