Job Description
Teacher Assistant
Qualification:
- Two years of college or Associate Degree or other requirements as deemed necessary byEvery Student Succeeds Act.
Reports To: Superintendent of Education the Deputy Superintendent Principal Assistant Principal Supervising Teacher and other designated supervisor.
Job Goal: To assist the classroom teacher in preparing classroom activities and materials and to provide care in meeting the needs of the students.
Professional Responsibilities
- Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher
- Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of fully licensed teachers
- Participates in in-service training programs as assigned
- Follows school board policy and school rules and regulations
Classroom Management
- Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes
- Distributes and collects workbooks papers and other materials for instruction
- Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up-to-date
- Checks and records student attendance
- Collects and records collection of money
- Assists with lunch snack and cleanup routines
- Assists with wash-up and toilet routines
- Assists teacher in maintaining neat work and study areas
- Collects and displays suitable material for educational displays
Student Support and Supervision
- Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher
- Assists with such large group activities as drill work reading aloud and story-telling
- Reads to students listens to students read and participates in other forms of oral communication with students
- Assists students in the library or media center
- Helps students with their clothing
- Fosters good eating habits and table manners in children
- Assists with the supervision of children during regular play periods
- Helps students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher
Teacher Support
- Administers scores and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students
- Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing materials or skills
- Guides independent study enrichment work and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher
- Checks notebooks corrects papers and supervises testing and make-up work as assigned by the teacher
- Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about individual students
- Participates in daily and long-range lesson and classroom activity planning
- Performs others duties as assigned by the Principal Assistant Principal Supervising Teacher Superintendent Deputy Superintendent and other supervisor
Terms of Employment: Salary and work year will be established by the Board.
Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Boards policy on Evaluation of Support Services Personnel.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority