Teacher Assistant

Teacher Assistant
- Instructional

Job Title:

Teacher Assistant
- Instructional

Qualifications:

• Minimum high school diploma or G.E.D.
• 48 semester hours of college credit or score of 456 on Para Pro Assessment
• Meets health and physical requirements

Job Goal:
To provide assistance to 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 making generalizations, 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