Assistant Teacher

Job Title: TEACHER ASSISTANT

Reports To: SUPERVISING TEACHER and PRINCIPAL

Job GOAL:

• To assist the teacher acheive teaching objectives by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole.
• To provide a well-organized, smoothly functioning class environment in which students can take full advantage of the instructional program and available resource materials

qualifications:

• High school diploma, G.E.D., or a 4-year college degree
• Demonstrates proficiency in reading and proofreading skills.
• Passed a written reading test and language arts test as established by the State Department of Education.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Assist the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
• Distributes, prepares, and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction.
• Guides independent study, enrichment work, remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
• Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
• Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and storytelling.
• Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
• Check notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises makeup work, as assigned by the teacher.
• Assists with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines.
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• 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.
• Performs all other appropriate duties as assigned by the teacher and/or principal.
• Promotes a positive image of school district program to the public.
• Assists the teacher and principal in the development and implementation of a successful instructional program.
• Assists students with reading skills problems, basic skills problems, and manual writing skills.
• Operates audio-visual programs form small groups and assists in small group sessions with reading skills and basic skills.
• Keeps records pertaining to books that students read, displays students’ work, and assists teachers in preparing stencils, charts, and posters and in putting work on the chalkboard.
• Attends parent-teacher conferences when requested.
• Conforms to guideline in Bulletin 171.
• Reviews and complies with the guidelines established in the personnel and student handbooks.

Terms of employment:

• 185 days per year. Salary and work 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.