Title:      Teacher Assistant     

Qualifications:         

1. Successfully passed 48 college course hours or Associate’s Degree
2. Understanding of children

Reports To:    Principal

Job Goal:                  

To assist the teacher, achieve teaching objectives by working with individual or small groups of students to help them achieve the skill level of the class as a whole.

Performance Responsibilities:

1. Assist the teacher in administering, scoring, and recording such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
2. Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
3. Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
4. Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
5. Helps students master equipment or instructional materials assigned by the teacher.
6. Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction.
7. Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
8. Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
9. Keeps bulletin board and other classroom learning displays up-to-date.
10. Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and story-telling.
11. Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
12. Assists students in the library or media center.
13. Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and make-up work as assigned by the teacher.
14. Checks and records student attendance.
15. Collects and records collection of money.
16. Helps students with their clothing.
17. Assist with lunch, snack, and clean-up routines.
18. Assists with wash-up and toilet routines.
19. Alerts the regular teacher of nay problem or special information about an individual student.
20. Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute.
21. Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of the certified teacher.
22. Participates in professional development activities as assigned.
23. Performs such other tasks and assumes such other responsibility as the teacher may from time to time assign.

Terms of employment:   187 days a year.  Salary to be established by the Board.

Evaluation:           

Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board’s policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.