Teacher Aide Job Kennett area,Missouri USA,Education / Teaching

Elementary Teachers Aide

The Kennett School District seeks applicants for an Elementary Teachers Aide for the school year. As part of our innovative 4-day school week schedule, you will have the opportunity to engage students in meaningful learning experiences while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Applicants need to have sixty college hours or be eligible for a substitute certificate. For more details and to be considered for this position, applicants must register and then apply online.

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

Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material and skills.

Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing materials or skills based on a sympathetic understanding or individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.

Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.

Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction.

Guides independent study, enrichment, and remedial work.

Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.

Keeps bulletin boards and other classroom learning displays up to date.

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 media center.

Corrects papers, and supervises testing and make-up work, as assigned by the teacher.

Assists with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines.

Assists with wash-up and toilet routines.

Alerts the teacher to any problem or special information regarding 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 a high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information

Participates in professional development, as assigned.