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General education, self-contained special education, behavior support, one-on-one aide: these are not interchangeable, and naming the specific setting tells a school exactly what your experience transfers to. A vague "classroom support" line makes a hiring manager guess.
Every teacher assistant supports the lead teacher. What stands out is a specific outcome: a student’s progress toward an IEP goal, a training program you helped build, ramp-up time you cut for new hires. If you do not have a program-level result yet, caseload size and grade level still show real scope.
Many districts require a paraprofessional certification and increasingly require CPI or a similar crisis de-escalation credential. Name both plainly with the certifying body and year, since districts often filter applications on exactly these two lines.
A summer program, an after-school aide position, or a short-term substitute placement is genuine classroom experience. List it with the same level of detail as a full-time role: employer, dates, group size and what you actually did.
One page for anyone under roughly seven years of experience. Two pages becomes reasonable once you have moved into a lead or coordinator role, or have a certification and multi-school history long enough that cutting it would remove information a school actually needs.
Most states require some combination of a high school diploma, a set number of college credits, or a passing score on a paraprofessional assessment rather than a full degree. List exactly what you hold, whether that is an associate degree, specific coursework, or a passed assessment, so a school can confirm you meet its requirement.
Describe the role and the type of support rather than the student: "provided one-on-one academic support for a student with an IEP in reading and math" or "implemented an individualized behavior plan." This is both the appropriate level of confidentiality and the level of detail a hiring manager actually wants.
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