TEACHER ASSISTANT
JOB DESCRIPTION
Minimum Qualifications
- Completed at least 2 years of college or Associate Degree
- Passing score on the Work Keys Assessment Test
Work ethics
- Possess and applies knowledge and skills of job position
- Cooperates and works with others
- Regular attendance and punctuality
- Initiative and interest in work
Classroom 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
- Assist the teacher with administering, scoring, and recording 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
- Other duties as assigned
