Assistant Teacher

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

Position Type: Full‑Time