Qualifications:

• High school diploma, GED, or this may be waived by the building principal
• Demonstrated aptitude for the work to be performed
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate

Reports To: Teacher and Building Principal

Job Goal: To assist the teacher achieve teaching objectives by working with individual students or small groups to help them achieve the skill levels of the class as a whole.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Administers, scores, and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
• Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
• Guides independent study, enrichment work, and remedial work set up and assigned by the teacher.
• Checks notebooks, corrects papers, and supervises testing and makeup work, as assigned by the teacher.
• Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and storytelling.
• Serves as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• 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.

Terms of Employment: Pay and work year to be established by the Board

Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated annually in accordance with provisions of the Board’s policy on Evaluation of Classified Personnel.