Part-Time; Teacher Assistant

Teacher Assistant - Instructional

Job goal:
To aid teachers, secretaries, and clerical personnel when needed.

Essential functions:

• Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes
• Distributes and collects workbooks, paper, and other materials for instruction
• Assists with supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips
• Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and makeup work as assigned by the teacher
• Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills
• Assumes responsibility for knowing and following the safety rules and proper procedures associated with the responsibilities of the job
• Checks and records attendance
• Arranges bulletin boards
• Types and duplicates tests, worksheets, and supplementary materials
• Assists in supervising children in lunchroom, playground, and loading buses
• Assists the teacher in assimilating materials for class displays
• Performs other duties as assigned

Physical demands:

• This job may require lifting of objects that exceed 50 lbs., or the average weight of a child, if assigned to elementary grades, with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 25 lbs.
• Other physical demands that may be required are as follows: pushing, pulling, climbing, stooping, kneeling, crawling, reaching, talking, hearing, seeing

Vocational preparation:

• The required vocational preparation may come from any of the following: vocational education, apprentice training, on-the-job training, essential experience

Temperament (personal traits):

• Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure
• Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an activity
• Adaptability to generalizing, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria
• Adaptability to dealing with students

Capacity and ability requirements:

• Intelligence:
  Ability to understand instructions and underlying principles; ability to reason and make judgments
• Verbal:
  Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them
• Manual dexterity:
  Ability to move the fingers and manipulate small objects with the fingers rapidly and accurately
• Form perception:
  To make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures
• Color discrimination:
  Ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color

Work conditions:
Normal working environment

Terms of employment: 185-day contract, teacher assistant salary scale

Immediate supervisor:
Classroom teacher and/or principal