Assistant Teacher

Job Goal:

To assist the classroom teacher in preparing classroom activities and materials and to provide care in meeting the needs of the students. Look after children's physical, social and emotional welfare, create a safe and interesting environment. Work closely with teacher, and speech and language therapists.

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 SPED teacher to any problem or special information about individual students

• Participates in daily lesson and classroom activity planning

• Performs others duties as assigned by the Principal, Assistant Principal, Supervising Teacher, Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent, and other supervisor